2025 Maine Cheese Awards Winners

2025 Maine Cheese Guild

Cheese Awards Winners List

1. Fresh Cheeses – Soft/Spreadable – Any Milk

First Place – Tie: Noisy Acres Farm – Chevre and York Hill Farm – Dairy Duet

Third Place – Scalawag Farm – Fresh Chevre

2. Fresh Cheeses – Firm

First Place – Creamy Acres Creamery – Curds
Second Place – Springdale Farm – Queso Tencho
Third Place – Widdershins, LLC – American

3. Brined Cheeses

First Place – Widdershins, LLC – Feta
Second Place – Balfour Farm – Sea Breeze Feta
Third Place – Fuzzy Udder Creamery – Feta

4. Bloomy Rind

First Place – Spring Day Creamery – Evangeline
Second Place – Winter Hill Farm – Frost Gully
Third Place – Yellow Birch Farm – Fog in Eggemoggin

5. Washed Rind

First Place – Winter Hill Farm – Terzetto
Second Place – Kennebec Cheesery – Titcomb
Third Place – Josh Pond Farm – Rosy Woodsman

6. Washed Curd

First Place – Fuzzy Udder Creamery – Landslide
Second Place – Oaklands Farm – Roxanne
Third Place – Winter Hill Farm – Noname

7. Aged, Pressed Curd Cheeses

First Place – Pineland Farms Dairy – Reserve Cheddar
Second Place – Pineland Farms Dairy – Vintage Cheddar
Third Place – Tie: Kennebec Cheesery – Highlands Caerphilly and Pineland Farms Dairy – Sharp Cheddar

8. Mountain/Alpine Cheeses

First Place – Tie: Josh Pond Farm – Meddybemps and Winter Hill Farm – Collinsbrook

Third Place – Kennebec Cheesery – Sugarloaf Mountain

9. Blue Cheese

First Place – Fuzzy Udder Creamery – Polar Vortex
Second Place – Winter Hill Farm – Bradbury Mountain Blue
Third Place – Spring Day Creamery – Spring Day Blues

10. Flavored Cheeses

First Place – Fuzzy Udder Creamery – Alpenglow
Second Place – Yellow Birch Farm – Sundried Tomato & Sumac
Third Place – Balfour Farm – Smokey Ghost Cheddar

BEST IN SHOW: TIE

Fuzzy Udder Creamery – Polar Vortex and Spring Day Creamery – Evangeline