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What were you doing two years ago? Perhaps you voted in a pivotal election, or sang your heart out to the newly released movie “Wicked” at the cinema. Maybe you placed a wheel of cheese onto a cellar shelf in the Jura Mountains of eastern France … and waited.

If it was the latter, then congratulations! That cheese could now be the best in the world, according to the judges of the prestigious World Cheese Awards, who gathered in Spain on Thursday to sample more than 5,000 varieties of dairy produce to crown a winner.