A former Olympic pole vaulting champion and a French-born Gippsland cheese maker have taken top honours in the RNA’s Royal Queensland Food and Wine Show search for the nation’s best ice-cream and dairy product. Silver medallist for Australia at the 2000 Olympics, Tatiana Grigroveria, took top honours for her Ascot Caffe e Gelato Milany’s special banana ice-cream, beating more than 150 entries to win the gold medal and the title as Australia’s best ice-cream in the RQFWS’s Australian first... ...Read more »

Announced at the Australian Grand Dairy Awards in Melbourne tonight, Victoria’s Jindi Old Telegraph Road Fire Engine Red has won the prestigious Grand Champion Award 2011 and Best of Category Award for Washed Rind Cheese. Having won a bounty of local and international awards, the privately-owned specialty cheesemaker said this win has taken them higher in the cheese world. “Our Brie first put Jindi on the map having won the Best Brie in the world in 1996, 2002 and 2004. This award for our Washed... ...Read more »

Gippsland based Jindi Cheese has achieved the highest ranking for a blue cheese at the world’s most prestigious cheese awards. In the same year that Jindi Cheese almost perished in the fires that ravaged Gippsland in February, Normandy born veteran cheese artisan, Franck Beaurain, created what is arguably the world’s best blue cheese – Jindi Deluxe Blue. In a huge coup for regional Australian cheese making, Australia’s own Jindi Cheese has risen from the ashes to be awarded... ...Read more »

Located in the Victorian dairy belt, Jindi Cheese, the largest private Australian-owned specialty cheese maker received international acclaim last week, winning four gold medals at the prestigious annual Guild of Fine Food World Cheese Awards. Jindi Old Telegraph Road Brie collected the highest accolade taking out the only gold medal awarded in the Brie category; the new Jindi Reserve Blue took another; while the also recently launched, Jindi Rustic Brie (washed rind) enjoyed gold status twice. “The... ...Read more »

Jindi, located in the heart of the Victorian dairy belt and renowned for its award-winning Brie, has expanded its retail offering this month with the introduction of eight new variants in response to changing preferences of cheese consumers. The four new blues, washed rind Rustic Brie and more complex flavoured, premium Reserve range have been developed by veteran cheese artisan, Normandy-born Franck Beaurain, in new state-of-the-art facilities which almost perished in the fires that ravaged Gippsland... ...Read more »