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Great Taste Award Winners
The Great Taste Awards, run by the Guild of Fine Food Retailers, are regarded as the "Oscars" of the fine food world and recognise and reward the exceptional standard of food and drink available in the UK.
The Awards have carved a reputation over the last decade as the single most sought after seal of real quality in speciality food and drink.
The following have won Great Taste Awards:
Glenilen Farm – Artisan Dairy Products
Glenilen Farm raw cream butter has been awarded GOLD at the Great Tastes Awards.
This is to add to the award from The Irish Food Writers Guild for their range of products earlier this year and also they achieved the status of Highly Commended at the SFA National Small Business Awards for Achievement , Innovation and Excellence in the Food & Drink catagory.
James White Fruit Juices Organic Apple & Crushed Ginger
A winner of a Great Taste Gold Award
Duchy Originals
Great Taste Gold Award 2005 for
Cheese Nibbles
Cottage Delight Speciality Foods
Many of the Cottage Delight products
have won awards!
Tyrell’s Potato ChipsGold Great Taste Award
“The holy grail of potato chips”
Anthony Worall Thompson
Kilmurry Jams
Raspberry Jam in the Raspberry Jams Category Silver Award Winners
Thomas's of Foxrock
Award-winning Delicatessen
Thomas's is the proud bearer of a Bridgestone Best in Ireland Award for the last 10 years - 1996:2006. We take pride in our awards and support other winners too. Take a look at just some of our award winning stock below...
Bridgestone Best in Ireland
Janet’s Country Fayre
Pesto - John & Sally McKenna’s Bridgestone Best in Ireland 2005
As Janet says: “Pesto is not just for pasta! Add it to sauces and vinaigrettes. Spread on crostini and bruschetta, brush over chicken and fish. Toss into a stir fry and new potatoes. Marinade it on meat – leg of lamb – yum!”
Hick’s gourmet pork products have won Best in Ireland 1998 and 2002.
Butler’s Pantry
The Butler’s Pantry has been the recipient of The Bridgestone Award every year since 1995.
Cooleeney Cheese
"Some of the most effulgent, lurid and insolently powerful cheeses in Ireland, something so good you could walk a country mile in the rain to eat it again."
The Bridgestone Irish Food Guide
Glenilen Farm Products
Variety of large and small cheesecakes, yoghurts, fromage frais, cream, country butter, clotted cream, summer berry mousse.
Recommended by John and Sally McKenna in the Best of Ireland Bridgestone Guide
Misc Awards
Gold River Farm
Winner of an award at the Eurotoques Annual Food Awards 2005
(Suppliers of fruit and veg to Thomas’s)
Butler's Irish Handmade Chocolates
Recipients of many awards, including the prestigious Bord Bia Brand Marketing Award. The experts agree, their irresistible handmade chocolates really are special....
Durrus
Durrus Irish Farmhouse Cheese has won many awards. Most recently the 2005 IFEX, Irish Farmhouse Cheesemaker of the Year and Supreme Champion, Gold, in the IFEX 2005 International Cheese Awards.
Milleens was Supreme Champion at the 1997 British Cheese Awards.
Dorset Pastry
Entering the 2005 Taste of the West Food & Drink Awards for the first time, Dorset Pastry Ltd, Dorchester wins two Gold Awards for its Luxury Chocolate Torte and Luxury Lemon Torte.