While family-run Hook’s Cheese only has seven full-time employees, this 8,500-square-foot cheesemaking plant — originally built as a livery stable to the Washington Hotel in 1875 and is on the National Register of Historic Places — has transcended history as one of the first cheese companies in Wisconsin to perfect the art and science of mixed milk cheeses.

Central Point, Ore.-based Rogue Creamery is delighted to announce that its 2024 vintage of World Championship winning Rogue River Blue cheese is now available.

The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA) said a Gruyere from Bern, Switzerland, was named the 2020 World Champion Cheese.

A Dutch Gouda-style cheese is the 2012 World Championship Cheese. The semisoft, reduced-fat cheese, called Vermeer, from FrieslandCampina in Steenderen, Netherlands, took top honors out of 2,504 entries from 24 countries.