Record 240 food and drink products win coveted Great Taste Award
They received a coveted one-, two- or three-star gold award for their outstanding quality of food and drink products.
The three-star gold award-winning products from Ireland are the Yeats Country Organic Full Fat Soft Cheese and Goats Cheese marketed by Green Pastures (Donegal) Ltd; the SuperValu Supreme Orange Blossom Honey produced by Healy Honey and marketed by Musgrave Retail Partners Ireland; and the Vanilla Tablet marketed by Mella’s Fudge.
The Great Taste Awards, organised by Britain’s Guild of Fine Food, are in their 18th year. Entries have increased 20% compared with 2010, totalling 7,481 products from 1,600 companies. It took 350 food experts 34 days to blind-taste all the entries, and decide which ones were of high enough quality to win gold awards.
The identities of the overall regional and national winners and the 2011 Supreme Champion will remain a closely guarded secret until the awards presentation dinner at London’s Royal Garden Hotel on September 5, when food producers, buyers, retailers, chefs and food writers will enjoy three-star award winning food and drink, as BBC Radio 2’s Nigel Barden announces who will carry away the coveted Golden Forks.
Bob Farrand, chairman for The Great Taste Awards, said: “Winning gold in the country’s largest and most respected independent food accreditation scheme is a massive pat on the back for any producer, independent proof their products are of the highest quality. We provide constructive feedback from our expert judging teams and for many, winning one-, two-, or three-star gold is exactly what’s needed to help grow their businesses, even during a recession. Every winner should feel very proud that their hard work has been rewarded. Historically, winning gold changes lives and transforms the fortunes of small food and drink businesses.”
lA full list of award-winning products is available at greattasteawards.co.uk.
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