Great Taste Awards 2009 

The Great Taste Awards from the Guild of Fine Food are the acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink.  A three-star gold is the highest level of award any producer can aspire to and is recognised as the definitive independent accreditation of quality

The awards also generate huge business for those who achieve the gold standard. Over the past five years, they have generated over £2.6 million additional sales and 19,900 new listings.

The Great Taste awards judging standards have long been the most rigorous in the UK. For 2009, they become even more so. Every entry was blind tasted by two teams of experts working separately but simultaneously. Both teams could recommend foods to go forward to the second stage.

At the second stage the products were tasted again to establish if they were good enough to be awarded a Gold and whether they should receive 1, 2, or 3 star awards.

All entries awarded the coveted 3 star gold then went forward for further tasting to identify regional and national winners. These awards will be announced at the awards event on September 6th at Fortum & Mason, London.

For a complete list of the Northwest winners click here

For further information on the Great Taste Awards visit www.finefoodworld.co.uk