Blue Category

Best Blue Cheese
Sartori Reserve Dolcina Gorgonzola
Sartori Artisan Foods

Cow Category

Best Fresh Cow’s Milk Cheese
Cantare Marscapone
Cantare Foods

Best Washed Rind Cow’s Milk Cheese
Pleasant Ridge Reserve
Uplands Cheese

Best Semi-Hard Cow’s Milk Cheese
Beecher’s Flagship
Beecher’s Handmade Cheese

Best Firm Cow’s Milk Cheese
Vintage Bandaged Cheddar
Fiscalini Farmstead Cheese

Best Hard Cow’s Milk Cheese
San Joaquin Gold
Fiscalini Farmstead Cheese

Sheep Category

Best sheep milk cheese
Virgin Pine Nature Sheep
Carr Valley Cheese

Goat Category

Best Fresh Goat Cheese
Montchevré fresh & natural goat cheese
Montchevré-Betin

Best Goat Cheese Aged 1 to 2 Months
La Cabrie
Montchevré-Betin

Best Goat Cheese Aged 6 Months and Longer
Aged Cardona
Carr Valley Cheese

Uniquely American Category

Best Uniquely American Cheese
Sartori Reserve Bella Vitano Wheel
Sartori Artisan Foods

People's Choice Awards

People's Choice Cheese
Idaho Golden, Halloumi style
Ballard Family Dairy & Cheese, Idaho

People's Choice Cheesemaker
Sartori Artisan Foods, Wisconsin