About Great Taste Awards
Great Taste is the UK's largest and most trusted awards scheme for speciality food & drink. Only the best tasting products bear the black and gold logo.
Great Taste Awards Description
Since its inception in 1993, Great Taste has been the benchmark for speciality food and drink sold in the UK. This accreditation scheme, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, sees 10, 000 products vying to win a coveted one-, two- or even three-star award. Every entry is put through a rigourous judging process manned by industry experts.
The judging pool is made up of more than 400 experts (including chefs, food buyers, critics and retailers), who attend sessions held over the course of several months. The majority of judging takes place at the Guild of Fine Food’s purpose built HQ in Dorset but this year will also see judging held in Belfast and at the Speciality Food Show in Harrogate as well as specialist test centres for tea and coffee.
Once judging has finished in June, all three-star winners are recalled for a final round, which results in a Top 50 being unveiled throughout August. Finally, the Best Regional Specialities and, of course, the Supreme Champion are crowned at an Awards Dinner held in September.
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See all the highlights from this year's #WorldCheeseAwards in Bergamo, Italy from the morning's general judging all the way through to the Super Jury where they crowned Rogue River Blue from Oregon's Rogue Creamery as the World Champion Cheese, our first ever American winner.
The awards were streamed live online to an international audience courtesy of Silverstream TV as hosts Nigel Barden and Charlie Turnbull interviewed judges about the cheeses on their tables before the Su...per Jury sat in front of a live audience to decide the winning cheese.
On Friday 18th October 2018, a judging panel of 260 cheese experts from 35 different countries spent the day tasting 3,804 cheeses from 42 nations.
This year sees the 32nd edition of the World Cheese Awards visit Bergamo in Italy with a record-breaking 3,804 entries - an increase of 10% from last year. Cheeses came from six continents from places like Argentina, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and for the first time ever, Japan.
A panel of 260 cheese buyers, cheese makers, retailers and food writers came from all corners of the globe to judge this year's entries which included 42 cheeses from Japan, 845 cheeses from Italy and from cheesemakers established as long ago as 1225.
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If you're heading to Spirit of Christmas Fair this week, make sure you check out the award-winning producers in our Great Taste Market!
You’ll find incredible producers like Wiston Estate Winery who create the most delicious English sparkling wine, BoTree Seasonings Kampot pepper who have phenomenal seasonings and Manchester Gin who have just opened their first bar and gin school, Three Little Words where you can take a tour and create your very own gin using whatever botanicals you like and they’ll even keep the recipe for you so you can make it again and again!
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See what food industry experts Liz Selway, Lucas Hollweg, Peter Sanchez-Iglesias, Alice Lascelles, Mallika Basu, William Sitwell, Jun Tanaka & Felicity Cloake thought of Kadode Kampot Pepper UK Fermented Fresh Green Peppercorns which won the Great Taste Golden Fork Award for Ambient Product of the Year.
Harleston-based family-run handmade chocolate and fudge business The Pod Chocolates has been named as a #GreatTasteAwards winner
The Afon Mêl Heather Mead from New Quay Honey Farm won the Great Taste Golden Fork from Wales in this year's awards.
In this Taste Table session, experts from across the food industry what makes the product so unique and worthy of an award.
Thanks to Mallika Basu, William Sitwell, Jun Tanaka, Felicity Cloake, Liz Selway, Lucas Hollweg, Peter Sanchez-Iglesias and Alice Lascelles for joining us to try this heather mead.
The #WorldCheeseAwards hit international headlines this weekend featuring in The New York Times, CNN & Fox News.
From the NYT article:
"David Gremmels, president of Rogue Creamery who is also known as “Mr. Blue,” said web traffic and sales were up 500 percent since the award was announced. Foreign sellers, like Neal’s Yard Dairy and La Fromagerie in London, have increased orders too. And Rogue Creamery has seen new orders from cheese sellers in Spain and the Netherlands."
Guardian columnist and cookery writer Felicity Cloake explains what makes #GreatTasteAwards winners Radnor Preserves Smoky Campfire Marmalade so irresistible
The 2019 Great Taste Golden Fork from East Anglia was awarded to Handmade by Hadley's for their Burnt Honey Ice Cream.
In this video, food industry experts Baba G's Bhangra Burger founder Liz Selway, cookery writer Lucas Hollweg, casamia chef/owner Peter Sanchez-Iglesias and journalist and drinks writer Alice Lascelles discuss the best things to pair this ice cream with and what makes it so exceptional.
#GreatTasteAwards winning Peter's Yard sourdough crispbreads are revered by top chefs all over the country, but they had the most humble of beginnings – in a small bakery in the wild countryside of southern Sweden.
This vegan salted caramel & liquorice gelato from Brighton's Gelato Gusto Artisan Ice Cream won the title of Golden Fork from London & the South East in the 2019 Great Taste Golden Fork Awards organised by the Guild of Fine Food.
Food writer & cookbook author @mMallika Basu, Telegraph restaurant critic William Sitwell, The Ninth Restaurant executive chef & owner Jun Tanaka & food writer and author Felicity Cloake sample and discuss the merits of this small batch vegan gelato and what makes it so delicious.
#GreatTasteAwards winning Suki Tea from Belfast goes plastic free
From 12,772 entries, this coffee from Dark Woods Coffee won three stars in the #GreatTasteAwards before being heralded as the best tasting product from the North of England in 2019's Golden Fork Awards organised by the Guild of Fine Food.
Here, the tasting table try Dark Woods Coffee Panama La Huella "Cafe de Panama" (Natural), a hand selected, high altitude micro-lot, sourced from a small producer group in Panama and talk about what makes it such a fantastic product.
The award-winning Welsh gin labelled 'kind of perfect' by Great Taste judges - Jin Talog
We sat down with some of the biggest names in the food industry to talk about some of the winners of this year's Golden Fork Awards. Here, the panel discuss the three star #GreatTasteAwards winning Pea Green Boat Cheese Sablés - Fennel and Chilli from @Shortbread House of Edinburgh.
Featuring the opinions of Baba G's Bhangra Burger's founder Liz Selway, cookery writer Lucas Hollweg, casamia chef & owner Peter Sanchez-Iglesias, journalist and drinks writer Alice Lascelles, food writer and cookbook author Mallika Basu, Telegraph restaurant critic William Sitwell,The Ninth Restaurant executive chef & owner Jun Tanaka and food writer and author Felicity Cloake.
“We have created a system of fear everywhere that the regulators are going to come and shut you down for making raw milk cheese.”
From a masters degree in human rights in Ireland, to an intern at the UN in New York, to one of the most important voices in cheese and raw milk production today, Carlos Yescas, director of Oldways Cheese Coalition, owner of Lactography & founder of the LACTEO network, gives Cellarman his unique economic insight into the world of cheese on the latest episode of the Fine Food Podcast.
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Capreolus Fine Foods Guanciale won Charcuterie Product of the Year at the 2019 Great Taste Golden Fork Awards.
Listen to food industry experts Mallika Basu, William Sitwell, Jun Tanaka of The Ninth & Felicity Cloake review the product and discuss why it deserves to win the award.
#GreatTasteAwards winning Peppup Sauce launches three new healthy sauces
Mallika Basu, William Sitwell, Jun Tanaka and Felicity Cloake review the anise & fennel honey from BeeWell who won the Great Taste Golden Fork from Greece at this year's awards.
This award was sponsored by National Bank of Greece