Caucasus first regional cheese festival launches in Tbilisi
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What is your favourite type of cheese?
Sweet, salty, smoky, creamy or blue – whatever your preference, you’re bound to find it at a two-day cheese festival in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi this weekend.
On Saturday and Sunday regional cheesemakers will gather in downtown Tbilisi for the first Caucasian Cheese Festival and present their local cheese varieties to visitors.
The event, held at Rike Park near Old Tbilisi, will feature cheese and dairy products from different parts of Georgia. It will also include producers from neighbouring Armenia and Azerbaijan, with delegations from Turkey and Israel attending as invited guests.
The annual Georgian Cheese Festival attracted thousands of visitors last year with its diverse range of products. Photo by N. Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
Major industry players and individual cheese-makers will exhibit their products side-by-side, offering visitors the chance to sample the range of products.
On Saturday the cheese varieties will be judged by a panel of experts, with results of the competition revealed during the closing ceremony on Sunday afternoon.
Georgian Guild of Cheese Producers are organising the regional event and said the Festival aimed to represent a fresh concept compared to other annual cheese celebrations and help restore Georgia with its status of a regional production and trade hub.
Unique varieties of sweet, salty, smoky and creamy traditional Georgian cheese were on show at an outdoor cheese festival in Tbilisi on Saturday.
A wide range of cheese products, live demonstration of their production and an unveiling of a state initiative for promoting Georgian cheese will be on the agenda for visitors of this year's Festival of Cheese, opening in Tbilisi tomorrow.