Great Taste Golden Fork from Wales announced

Hive and harvest come together in Ceredigion,  

grabbing Golden Fork for honey vinegar

Golden Fork from Wales announced

Great Taste, the world’s most trusted food and drink awards, has reached its grand finale for 2020, with the Great Taste Golden Fork from Wales presented toWenallt Hive from Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion for its Honey Vinegar with Raspberries. 

Produced on a smallholding in West Wales, this “grand product” begins with honey foraged from across the coastal cwms of Ceredigion, with its rolling pastures and meadows interlaced by ancient hedgerows. An 18-month fermentation process involving just Welsh honey, Welsh water and Wenallt Hive’s unique vinegar mother creates a subtle vinegar enjoyed for both its flavour and its natural goodness, which drew the Great Taste judges in with its “beautiful, delicate, vibrantly coloured appearance” and took them on “a fine flavour journey – fruity and sweet and sour and rich and fun.” 

Having impressed at every stage of the blind-tasted judging process, as a record-breaking 12,777 entries were assessed over 14 weeks of remote judging and socially distanced judging sessions, the versatile Honey Vinegar with Raspberries, which judges imagined drizzled over leaves, ice cream, strawberries and beef, was celebrated as the best tasting product in Wales during the virtual Great Taste Golden Fork award ceremony onThursday 22 October.  

Taking place across the Guild of Fine Food’s social media channels and website, the online event brought together food lovers, producers, retailers, buyers and chefs to discover this year’s stars of food and drink, providing a vital boost for the industry as the nation moves towards the most important Christmas period in a generation. Held later in the year than usual, after the lockdown interrupted judging just one week into the schedule, the Golden Fork trophy announcements are the final instalment in a Great Taste calendar that has been reinvented at every stage, in order to stimulate much-needed consumer support for independent retail and hospitality over the challenging months ahead.  

This year’s panel of judges included; cook, writer and champion of sustainable food, Melissa Hemsley, cook, writer, stylist and voice of modern vegetarian cooking, Anna Jones, celebrated Spanish chef, José Pizarro, Kavi Thakrar from Dishoom, food writer and cook, Xanthe Clay, and baker and author, Martha Collison, as well as food buyers from Selfridges, Fortnum & Mason and Waitrose. These esteemed palates tasted and re-judged the 3-star winners to finally agree on the Golden Fork trophy winners and the Great Taste 2020 Supreme Champion.   

The Golden Fork from Wales was sponsored by Food and Drink Wales and also nominated this year were the Great Taste 3-star winners; Blighty Booch Kombucha Organic Ginger from Conwy Kombucha in Conwy and Mario’s Red Cherry Sorbet from Mario’s Luxury Dairy Ice Cream in Llanelli.