34 Gold awards for Hampshire Fare producers in national Great Taste Awards!
26 July 2010
34 gold star awards have been presented to 16 Hampshire Fare producers at this year’s national Great Taste Awards for their food and drink products. This included 6 producers receiving a total of 7 coveted 3 star gold award for their exceptional products.
3 star gold star award-winning Hampshire products include Hampshire Malt Biscuits and Hampshire Ploughman’s Biscuits from Little Rose Bakery (Bishops Waltham), Nisi’s Amaretti (Lymington), Judes Blood Orange Sorbet (Twyford near Winchester), Lyburn Stoney Cross cheese (Landford, New Forest), Two Hoots Barkham Blue cheese (near Wokingham) and Laverstoke Park Buffalo steak (near Overton). Hampshire’s 7 three gold star award-winners (of which there were only a total of 95 nationally), are now in the running for the major, regional and national awards.
Hampshire’s 7 three gold star award-winners (of which there were only a total of 95 nationally), are in the running for the major, regional and national awards.
Hill Farm Products, based at Swanmore, won a 2 star gold award for its cloudy Hampshire apple juice, as did Pollen True Taste at Bramshott Chase for its fresh basil pesto. Nisi’s won a further 2 star gold for its Amaretti.
1 star gold awards were presented to Beaulieu Chocolate Studio (New Forest), The Chilli Jam Company (Emsworth), Cresson Hampshire (Ropley), Judes (Twyford), Laverstoke Park (Overton), Little Rose Bakery (Bishops Waltham), Manydown (Basingstoke), My Chocolate Bar (Andover), New Forest Biscotti (Sway), Scarlet Bakes (Fareham) and Summerdown Farm (Basingstoke).
The 2010 Great Taste Awards, regarded as the ‘Oscars’ of the fine food world, have seen even more products entered than ever before from across the UK and Southern Ireland.
6021 in total have been blind-tasted, tested and discussed over an intense, two-month judging period by 350 judges, comprising food writers, chefs, deli and farm shop owners, food producers and buyers.
One, two and three Gold Stars have been handed out to 1,576 deserving products, from the 1,350 small producers who entered this year.
The 2010 Supreme Champion Trophy winner will be announced at Fortnum & Mason in London on September 6th, where the ultimate three star products will be scrutinised by some of the country’s most revered and feared chefs, food critics and as always, a smattering of celebrity!
Hampshire Fare Manager Tim Brock said: “To have 7 Hampshire Fare products win the coveted 3 gold star award out of a total of 95 from across the whole of the UK exemplifies the high quality of food and drink produced here in Hampshire. The number of gold star awards that our members have won this year is a credit to Hampshire and the county should be very proud of its local food and drink producers”.
The Guild of Fine Food’s Bob Farrand commented of this year’s entries “It’s so exciting to see the standards of food and drink in the British Isles go from strength to strength, year after year, proving that for those who enjoy great food - it’s there to be discovered”. Farrand continued, “We’ve worked hard to ensure our judging process is as robust as possible. The judging teams are balanced in terms of experience, background and even gender and every Gold Award winning entry has been independently proven to be of the highest standard”.
Find out more about food and drink from Hampshire at www.hampshirefare.co.uk
• All Gold Star winners can be viewed at www.greattasteawards.co.uk - click on the link below.
Hampshire’s winners are listed below
• The Great Taste Awards are organised by the Guild of Fine Food
• The awards were established in 1994
• The one, two are three star ratings are established on the premise that a one star is a perfect food or drink, a two star is absolutely sublime and three star is that moment you turn to the person next to you and exclaim ‘ Wow! You must try this, it’s amazing!”
Great Taste Gold Awards to Hampshire Fare producers:
Beaulieu Chocolate Studio
Dark Cointreau truffle 1*
Vanilla Bean Truffle 1*
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Chilli Jam Company
Oil Fired (hot chilli rapeseed oil) 1*
Cresson Hampshire
Thai butternut squash soup 1*
Hill Farm Products
Hill Farm Hampshire Cloudy Apple Juice 2*
Judes
Blood Orange Sorbet 3*
Very Vanilla icecream 1*
Ginger Spice icecream 1*
Laverstoke Park
Buffalo fillet steak 3*
Chocolate icecream made wit buffalo milk 1*
Buffalo milk 1*
Ricotta 1*
Coffee icecream made wit buffalo milk 1*
Organic smoked streaky bacon 1*
Wild boar and pork burgers 1*
Buffalo biltong 1*
Little Rose Bakery
Hampshire Malt Biscuits 3*
Hampshire Ploughman’s Biscuits 3*
Fortnums Gorgeous Gingerbread 1*
Lyburn Cheese
Stoney Cross 3*
Manydown Farm shop
lamb & mint pie 1*
Basingstoke Banger 1*
Traditional pork pie 1
My Chocolate Bar
Madagascan Vanilla truffles 1*
Orange Honeycomb Crunch 1*
New Forest Biscotti
Christmas spiced fruit & almond 1*
Nisi's
Amaretti 3*
Amaretti (gluten-free category) 2*
Pollen True Taste
Fresh basil pesto 2*
Scarlet Bakes
Triple Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix 1*
White Chocolate and Cranberry Cooke Mix 1*
Summerdown Farms Ltd
Chocolate Mint Thins 1*
Chocolate peppermint creams 1*
Two Hoots
Barkham Blue 3*
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