Summer Harvest Oils from Perthshire is celebrating after winning a prestigious Gold Award in the Great Taste Awards for the second year running.
Date:
Tue, 19 Jul 2011
Source:
Summer Harvest
Summer Harvest won the coveted ‘One Gold Star’ Award for its Bramble and Juniper Dressing and also for its Garlic Mayonnaise. This follows last year’s ‘Two Gold Stars’ for its Cold Pressed Rapeseed oil.
Entrepreneur Mark Bush, who also got a new product award at ScotHot for his Lemon and Honey Dressing and was a finalist in the Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards earlier this year, started producing “Summer Harvest” branded rapeseed oil three years ago, after moving up from London to work on his father-in-law’s farm. Farming a 400 acre mixed arable and livestock unit at Ferneyfold Farm near Crieff, the family started growing, pressing and bottling rapeseed oil on the farm.
Their range of products now includes Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil, Infused Oils, Dressings and Mayonnaise and is used by chefs such as Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles, Michael Smith from the Three Chimneys and Jacqueline O’Donnell from The Sisters.
Mark Bush, Managing Director of Summer Harvest, said: “We are absolutely delighted with these awards. Winning a Great Taste Award recognises the hard work and dedication that goes into making top quality food and drink. Using the skill of the chefs from the prestigious catering company Wilde Thyme, our dressings use the finest ingredients from the heart of Scotland; Summer Harvest Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil and Fruit Vinegars and Jellies from Dalchonzie Fruit Farm.”
The Great Taste Awards, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, are now in their 18th year and going from strength to strength. 7481 products were entered from 1600 companies for the 2011 Great Taste Awards. It took 350 experts 34 days to blind taste all the entries and decide which entries would achieve the coveted one, two and three star gold awards.
The Great Taste Awards judging standards, devised by the Guild of Fine Food, are the most rigorous in the UK. To achieve the 3-star rating a minimum of 20 -more often 30 - judges need to be in complete agreement that the food delivered that indefinable ‘wow’ factor.
Mark Bush said, ‘The awards have topped off an amazing few months for Summer Harvest.’
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View the full list of winners on the Great Taste Awards website