Tingvollost (established in 2003) is a Norwegian cheesemaker in

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, making blue cheese and white mold cheeses from

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. 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 ''

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'' 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

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, 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.Kraftkar, un queso azul noruego, mejor del mundo en los World Cheese Awards
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Background

It was founded in 2003 by the Waagen family in conjunction with the ''Saghaug Gård'', a farm dating from the 1300s. Production manager Egil Smith-Meyer, chief executive officer is Kristin Waagen, daughter of farmer Gunnar Waagen and senior cheese maker Solvår Waagen who describes production as handmade (no machinery). The startup was partially due to minister of agriculture

Lars Sponheim Lars Sponheim (born 23 May 1957) is a Norwegian politician. He was leader of the Liberal Party from 1996 to 2010. He was a member of the Storting from 1993 to 2009, and a government minister from 1997 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2005. He served as C ...

in 2003 allowing milk farmers to make cheese from their own milk (not from the TINE quota).''Bittesmå verdensmestere'' in the Nationen newspaper, April 28, 2012.

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{{Reflist Cheesemakers Dairy products companies of Norway Tingvoll Companies established in 2003

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