After South Africa achieved excellent results in this year’s Paralympics, an Olympic victory of a different kind was to come – all thanks to Clover’s hard work and world-quality cheeses!

In what is referred to as the “Olympics of Cheese”, Clover sparkled as brightly as ever when they walked away with three gold medals and the title of Best South African Cheese with their Extra Mature Cheddar at this year’s World Cheese Awards on 29 September.

This year, the awards were held in Dublin. They hosted an incredible 2 400 cheeses from every cheese-making nation in the world. More than 90 experts from around the globe flew to Dublin to join 50 Irish judges to taste and judge the thousands of cheeses. The experts who judged the cheddar category all hail from England, the largest consumer of cheddar, and are extremely knowledgeable about this type of cheese.

The judges allocated the highest marks of all the South African cheeses to Clover’s Extra Mature Cheddar. This achievement resulted in Clover winning the Agri Expo trophy for the best South African Cheese – an incredible accolade indeed!

“These awards are testimony to the completeness of our product. It starts with what you put in – excellent quality milk – and ends with the preservation of the product until it reaches the consumer. Quality has always been the number one focus of Clover, and now every consumer of our product can be completely confident that consuming a Clover product is different.” says Johann Vorster, Chief Executive, Clover SA.

“This was a team effort right through from the cheese-makers to the excellent grading selection. We are very proud indeed,” says Kassie Herbst, divisional manager, Lichtenburg Clover.

Clover is of course ecstatic about its wins and honoured to have been able to share such a formidable platform with the best cheeses from around the world – proving that Clover cheese is not just cheese!