RAY SMUTS SOUTH African cheeses have well outperformed the country’s Athens Olympics competition by winning six gold medals, eight silvers and eight bronzes at this year’s World Cheese Awards in London. This is some achievement given it is only the second year the South Africans had the opportunity to participate in this event, regarded as the largest and most influential competition of its kind in the world with 1 843 entries from Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. One of the Ôkings’ of cheesemaking was Lancewood Cheese of George, competing for the first time this year and winning five medals, two of them gold.
