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Four Canarian cheeses, including three from Fuerteventura, awarded in the national championship of the Gourmets Hall 2025
Four Canarian cheeses have obtained one of the 60 medals awarded by the competition jury Gourmet Cheese 'Championship of the Best Cheeses of Spain 2025', held this week within the framework of the fair Gourmets Salon, In Madrid. Al certamen se presentaron un total de 895 samples from all over the country - including 58 Canarian cheeses- what, finally, They have set up a medal table for the islands consisting of a gold, two silver and one bronze.
Among these four award-winning productions, the jury composed of 64 tasters and tasters highlighted the Selectum Paprika from the Fuerteventura Livestock Farmers Group, which won the gold medal in the semi-cured mixture category, therefore it is situated between the 20 winners who aspire to be named the best cheese in Spain at the ceremony next Thursday to pick up the baton for the Canarian cheese that won in the edition of 2024: Don Nicolas, from Finca de Uga (Lanzarote).
In the pasteurized milk goat cheese category, the Cured Maxorata with Paprika (DOP Majorero Cheese), also from the Fuerteventura Livestock Group and, besides, This same product was awarded one of the gold medals in the parallel Cheese From Spain Awards contest., organized by ICEX to promote cheeses with greater export potential.
The other two distinguished productions obtained a medal in the young raw milk goat category., section in which The Caves (DOP Palmero Cheese), by Félix Alberto Gil Rodríguez, got a silver medal while making La Pared Livestock, in Fuerteventura, received the bronze medal.
In this sense, the director of the Canarian Institute of Agri-Food Quality (ICCA), Luis Arraez Guadalupe, stressed that “the high participation of Canarian products in this contest, through 58 samples submitted to the competition, as well as the various awards, medals and recognitions obtained in this and other national and international events, show that the Canary Islands are a world power in the production of cheeses of differentiated quality”.
Until the 10 of April, Nearly a hundred companies in the Canary Islands agri-food sector participate in the 38th edition of Salón Gourmets with the support of the Government of the Canary Islands through the Canary Institute of Agri-Food Quality (ICCA), Rural Environment Management (GMR Canarias) and Proexca, with the collaboration of the seven island councils and the General Directorate of Fisheries, in a display module 510 m² where cheeses are displayed, Wines, mojos, remembered, sea salts, cider, oils and other local products with the aim of highlighting these preparations and promoting their commercialization in the high-end food and beverage sector..
