Oscars of the Food World
Congratulations are due to a long list of Hampshire Fare members who have won Gold Stars at this year’s Great Taste Awards.
Great Taste, the largest blind-tasting food awards scheme in the country, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, have been described as both the Oscars of the food world and the epicurean equivalent of the Booker prize. Put simply they are the acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink.
The judging process is thorough with 405 judge, including food critics, chefs and food writers, blind-tasting 10,000 different products over selected days from May to July at various venues and specialist test centres as well as Guild HQ in Dorset.
Of those 10,000 entries, only 153 have been awarded Great Taste 3-star, 697 awarded 2-star and 2,531 awarded 1-star. A panel of talented judges including James Golding, Chef Director of The Pig hotel group, re-judged and tasted yet again the 3-star winners to agree on the 2014 Top 50 Foods, to be announced on twitter @guildoffinefood #top50foods between 1-5 September. The overall Great Taste Supreme Champion 2014 is announced in London on Monday, 8 September.
Members who been awarded Great Taste 3-star are:
- Summerdown Farms for Summerdown Peppermint Tea
Members who have been awarded Great Taste 2-star are:
- Hampshire Coffee Company for House Blend No 1
- Jude’s Ice Cream for Salted Caramel Ice Cream
- Lyburn Farmhouse Cheesemakers for Old Winchester Extra Mature
- New Forest Ice Cream for Mojito Sorbet
- The Tomato Stall for Isle of Wight Piccolo Tomatoes
- Two Hoots Cheese for Baby Barkham
Members who have been awarded Great Taste 1-star are:
- Belinda Clark Gourmet Confectioner for both Passion Fruit Marshmallow, and Rose Marshmallow
- Bubble & for both Bubble & Smoked Bacon bubble and squeak cake, and Bubble & Shiitake and Cheddar bubble and squeak cake
- Caracoli for their Chocolate brownie
- Catch for The Colonial Fishcake
- Caymanas Rum Cakes for their Caymanas Rum Cake
- Charlotte Brown’s Handmade for their Piccallilli
- Chocolate by Miss Witt for A Dark Chocolate – A Shooting Star
- Hill Farm Juice for their Apple Juice With Elderflower
- Isle of Wight Biltong for Sweet Chilli Beef Biltong
- Jude’s Ice Cream for their Mango and Passion Fruit Frozen Yoghurt, Milk Ice Cream, and Truly Chocolate Ice Cream
- Lyburn Farmhouse Cheesemakers for Stoney Cross
- New Forest Ice Cream for Coconut Ice Cream
- Owton’s Butchers for their Lincolnshire Pork Sausages and Mediterranean Lamb & Feta Burgers
- The Cold Pressed Oil Company for their Pure Rapeseed Oil
- The Garlic Farm for their Garlic Jam with Red Chilli
- The Real Jam & Chutney Company for Seville Orange Marmalade
- The Tomato Stall for Isle of Wight Golden Baby Plum Tomatoes, Isle of Wight Baby Plum Tomatoes, and Oak Roasted Tomato Infused Balsamic
- Two Hoots Cheese for both Barkham Blue and Rosethorn Blue
- Wessex Wild Plum Company for Kea Plum Liqueur
- Wild Island for their Raspberry Vinegar
- Wow Bakes for their Oats, Raisins and Cranberry Cookies
- Zafran Food Company for their Zereshk Polow fresh ready meal
For more information visit greattasteawards.co.uk