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The best Manchego cheeses of industrial and artisanal production competing on Fercam
29/06/2009
June 29, 2009
The best Manchego cheeses of industrial and artisanal production will compete for twenty-first year in the Regional quality contest organized on the occasion of the Regional fair of the field and samples of Castilla - La Mancha de Manzanares, which this year celebrating its 49th Edition of the 15 to 19 July.
The twenty-first Regional Contest of quality of Mancha cheese is held on the occasion of Fercam 2009 in collaboration with the regulatory Council of the denomination of origin of Manchego cheese and the Directorate General of food and cooperatives of the Ministry of agriculture and environment of the governing body of communities of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain.
In this edition may participate any manufacturers of manchego cheese, in the type of processing that is registered with the D.O. Manchego cheese, i.e. craft for processed cheese from raw milk, or industrial, to the elaborated ones with pasteurized milk. In both categories shall be distinguished cheese half healing and the cured.
According to the bases of the contest, shall be considered as average healing cheeses produced from January 9, 2009. The elaborate will soon appear in the category of cured. Each participating company will go in the category that is registered in the denomination of origin and present to contest a single brand within each type.
After the registration in the contest, participants must send or deliver a piece of cheese by registered with the Secretariat of Fercam sample, before next July 6. All samples will be stored in the best conditions of conservation at the time of the contest.
Participating cheeses should be visible all the plate of casein. In addition, processors must have a minimum of twenty-five pieces of the contestant cheese in their stores.
The tasting of qualification of the jury will take place on July 9. The tasting panel shall consist of representatives of the foundation of the Council regulator of the denomination of origin of Manchego cheese and Fercam organization, which will use the file of official tasting of this denomination.
The results will be made public Fercam 2009 inauguration day, July 15. Prizes will be delivered in its closure, on Sunday, July 19 to 13,00 hours in the official flag of the field fair.
They will be awarded Medal with silver and gold medal and Diploma, for each best cheese half healing and cured of each of the categories of industrial and artisanal production.
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Fercam - Ayuntamiento de Manzanares
