The cheeses and their awards over the last 5 years.

2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008 Export 2009 Export 2007 3rd. place.	The Cheeses, are all made here on the farm from our own pasteurised cows milk, using vegetarian rennet. Lyburn Gold. Comes in a 4.5 kg round, 9 inches across. It is ripened for about 10- 14 weeks, and has a creamy smooth texture with very small holes, eyes,to be seen evenly distributed throughout. In terms of a make, it is a washed curd cheese. Although technically it is a hard cheese, because it has been pressed, it is generally described as semi- hard. 2006 has brought another Gold, for this cheese at the British Cheese Awards in Cheltenham in Modern British Hard class. 2007 Third prize for the Gold at the Bath and West. 2008 Bronze for export in the British Cheese Awards
2008 2008 Silver 2009 Silver 2009 Gold 2009 2009 Silver 2010 Silver 3 Star Gold	Stoney Cross Stoney Cross is the new offering from Lyburn Farmhouse Cheesemakers.The cheese comes as a 1.3Kg truckle or a 3.5 kg wheel, mould ripened, not dissimilar to a French Tomme De Savoie. Creamy in texture, sweet flavours, with a distinctly earthy finish. This cheese has already earned at Bronze medal at the British Cheese Awards and a silver at the World Cheese Awards despite its relative infancy. Find it at Winchester Farmers Markets initaly. Stoney Cross gets off to a good start in 2009, with a second at the Great Yokshire Show, and Paul gets the Gold at Nantwich with this cheese.To finnish of the 2009 season a Bronze at the British Cheese Awards and a Silver at the World Cheese Awards. The name Stoney Cross come for an old World War II airfield 2 miles to the South of us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Stoney_Cross Stoney Cross looks to consolidate its position in 2010 with a 3 Star Gold at the Great Taste Awards and then a second at the Great Yorkshire Show

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Gold 2004 Gold 2005 Bronze 2006+2007+2009	Lyburn's Winchester. Having now made cheese at Lyburn Farm for about 7 years the market was indicating that we needed to improve our products to satisfy those that want a more fuller flavour. This we have achieved, by small changes to the make and now maturing the cheeses on to 7/8 months. This cheese still has an element of creaminess to it with a subtle nuttiness in flavour, with a little scrunch closer to the rind. As can be seen to the left Winchester is consistently getting results in the competitions. The results of the British Cheese awards 2007, give us another medal in the form of a Bronze, but Old Winchester stole the show. At the World Cheese Awards 2009 another Bronze, to give us 2 Gold and 4 Bronze in the last 6 years.


2005 2006 & Best Modern British Cheese 2006 2007 1st in Class & Reserve Champion. 2007 Rowcliffe salvour, for best SCA cheese. 2007 Silver 2007 2007Export 2008 2008Export 2008 2nd in Class 2008 Silver 3Star Gold 2008 2009 Export	Old Winchester. Also known as Old Smales, Old Winchester is, an older version of Winchester, above. This is now a much dryer and harder cheese, becoming more reminicent of an Old Amsterdam with a distinctive nuttiness in flavour. Because Old Winchester is made with a vegetarian rennet, on a number of occasions it is being sold as a vegetarian replacement for a hard Italian cheese, and yet can still be used as a table cheese, it has that bit more versatility. We are selling them at about 16 month plus. Entering the New Cheese Class in the British Cheese Awards for the first time in 2005 year, the cheese won a Bronze. In 2006 a stunning result, Old Winchester, initially took Gold, then went on to win the Best Modern British Cheese class, and ended up as one of several runners up to Tunworth, in the Supreme Championship. 2007 Bath and West Show, Old Winchester takes Reserve Champion. Having won its class, Old Winchester then went on to be runner up to a cheddar from Cricketer Farm. We still need a bit more time to finnish the job that we have been working on now for 4 years. But the prospects look good and it realy is quite different from the normal UK hard cheeses. 2007 Nantwich Cheese Show. Old Winchester takes Silver in it's class. This is another good result for this cheese. 2007 British Cheese Awards a Bronze for the home market and Gold for the Export. 2008 Bath and West Show. First competion of the year and second in class, having been beaten by Quicks Tradional, that also took the Championship. Silver at the Nantwich Show, followed by a Gold 3 star at the Great Taste Awards. Interestingly there are 2 other 3 star winners, Quicks Extra Mature, and Mosfield from Ireland. September sees Old Winchester in the Made in Britain finals. British Cheese Awards in Cardiff 2008, two more Gold, one in the British Modern Class, and a Second in the Export. Finaly another Gold at the World Cheese Awards in Ireland. www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food...	This cheese also found itself as one of the finalists in the made in the Made in Britain Competiton. To buy our cheese on line and all sorts of other goodies use this link
2001 2004 2008 2009	Lyburn smoked. This cheese is largely the same as the Gold, still a washed curd cheese but the eyes are not so prominent and is smoother, having been carefully smoked at a Dorset smokery over oak, to give a light and delicate flavour, and then returned to be matured for about 10 weeks. For those that enjoy a heavily smoked cheese, this may not suit. During the maturation process the rind goes a glorious caramel colour and can't be mistaken for any other.Another silver making two Silvers in a row at the World Cheese Awards June,2006. After a quiet period The Lybun Smoked has bounced back with a Silver in 2008 and 2009 at the British Cheese Awards.

2001 2002 2005 2006 2007 3rd. place.	Lyburn Garlic and Nettle. This cheese is made to the same recipe as the gold, but it is not matured for quite so long. As the name suggests, there is a hint of garlic and onion, and the other ingredients are chives,parsley,paprica, ginger, horseradish and celery, the nettle giving the cheese a touch of colour, that can be quite clearly seen. The garlic has however, not been included to such a level that it is too overpowering, and this presents a young well balanced cheese that pleases most people. At the British Cheese Awards in 2006 we have repeated our Bronze of last year. 2007 Third prize for the Garlic and Nettle at the Bath and West Show.


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