From the Cheese Portraits series.

This is the 2017 Best of Show winner 1st place champion from the American Cheese Society annual conference and competition in 2017. This is the highest ranked cheese in North America above more than two thousand entries!

I am annually commissioned to paint the Best of Show winners and the remarkable thing is I have already (in 2014) painted this very cheese as the very best with the 1st place ribbon color background. It says something when a cheese is made so consistently well that it wins as the best in the country, twice in 3 years. Well the flavor sure seems to agree with it and I'm so glad to have a third of a wheel in my fridge!

additional info:
This cheese is from Reading, Vermont's Spring Brook Farm and it's made at their nonprofit educational program : "Farms for City Kids" where the profits from their two cheeses (other is also painted here - look for Reading Raclette) support their foundation that brings kids to the farms for week long stays allowing them to experience and help at the farm.

Origin: USA, Vermont

Availability: sold