Norton and Yarrow’s iconic pyramid cheese, Sinodun Hill, was crowned Best British Cheese at the World Cheese Awards 2023.
The soft, mould-ripened pasteurised goats’ milk cheese, with a Geotrichum rind is made with “a minimum” of cultures and vegetarian rennet to give centre stage to the milk, and matured for 1 to 3 weeks.
Named after the Wittenham Clumps, a pair of wooded chalk hills in Oxfordshire, it isn’t the first time the cheese is celebrated at the World Cheese Awards, as it won Best Artisan Cheese in the World Cheese Awards in 2022.
A total of 99 British cheeses won an award this year – including five Super Golds, 19 Golds, 35 Silvers and 40 Bronzes. Just two made it into the final 16, however: Sinodun Hill, and Village Maid’s soft ewes’ milk cheese, Wigmore.
