page_title: Tingvollost
hierarchical_section_title: Tingvollost
caption_attribution_description: Kraftkar is a blue cheese from Tingvoll in Nordmøre, at the right top of the image. Edel Bla, another cheese, appears at the left top.
context_page_description: Tingvollost is a Norwegian cheesemaker in Tingvoll, making blue cheese and white mold cheeses from cow's milk. Annual production in 2014 was 21 tons of cheese based on 200 000 liters milk.
  Perhaps best known is the Kraftkar blue cheese that became World Champion in World Cheese Awards 2016. It first won the national championship in 2009 as well as medaled in the Nordic Cheese Competition in Denmark. It won gold in World Cheese Awards 2011, in which year they also brought home the national and nordic gold. The next year they again won Nordic, beating the Svedjan and Kastrup. In 2013 the Vismann took silver. During World Cheese Awards 2014 in London, they won bronze with the Edel frue and Mild mester. Mild Mester was in 2015 made a "Super Gold" and among 62 cheeses nominated to win World Cheese Awards 2015 in Birmingham, Edel frue and Vismann taking bronse, while Kraftkar won silver.
  Kraftkar was elected as World Champion in World Cheese Awards 2016, held in San Sebastián, competing with 3,021 cheeses from 31 countries.
context_section_description: Tingvollost (established in 2003) is a Norwegian cheesemaker in Tingvoll, making blue cheese and white mold cheeses from cow's milk.  Annual production in 2014 was 21 tons of cheese based on 200 000 liters milk. 
  Perhaps best known is the Kraftkar blue cheese that became World Champion in World Cheese Awards 2016. It first won the national championship in 2009 as well as medaled in the Nordic Cheese Competition in Denmark. It won gold in World Cheese Awards 2011, in which year they also brought home the national and nordic gold. The next year they again won Nordic, beating the Svedjan and Kastrup.  In 2013 the Vismann took silver (a milder version of Kraftkar).  During World Cheese Awards 2014 in London, they won bronze with the Edel frue (soft white) and Mild mester (semi-hard white).  Mild Mester was in 2015 made a "Super Gold" and among 62 cheeses nominated to win World Cheese Awards 2015 in  Birmingham, Edel frue and Vismann  taking bronse, while Kraftkar won silver. 
  Kraftkar was elected as World Champion in World Cheese Awards 2016, held in San Sebastián, competing with 3,021 cheeses from 31 countries.
caption: Tingvollost Kraftkar (upper right), with Edel Bla another cheese, upper left.
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