Success at the Wales the True Taste Awards 2010 for Monmouthshire businesses
Monmouthshire food producers and hospitality providers scooped four gold and three bronze awards at this year's Welsh food industry Oscars.
Monmouthshire food producers and hospitality providers scooped four gold and three bronze awards at this year’s Welsh food industry Oscars.
The Wales True Taste Food and Drink Awards are the climax of the Welsh culinary calendar.
The annual awards, held this year at Withybush Showground, Haverfordwest, have been established by the Welsh Assembly Government to reward innovation and excellence.
The independent judges considered entries from some 350 companies across Wales - ranging from traditional meat, dairy and fish to chocolate, soft fruit, mushrooms, herbs and even tea
Ancre Hill Vineyard. Monmouth won gold for its Ancre Hill Estates medium dry white wine and bronze for its rose.
Gold awards also went to Trealy Farm Charcuterie, Mitchel Troy for its beef pastrami and Wigmore’s Bakery, Monmouth for its cheese crunch bread while there was bronze in the butchers’ category for H.J. Edwards of Flannel Street, Abergavenny.
The awards also cover the retail and hospitality sectors in the ‘Eating Out in Wales’ category, where The Hardwick, near Abergavenny, run by Stephen Terry, scooped gold in the restaurant category and Gentle Jane’s Tearoom at Grosmont won bronze in cafes and tea-rooms.
James Swift of Trealy Farm Charcuterie said: “It’s great to get this award for what is quite a new product. It’s a reward for all the hard work put in by everyone here.”
Richard Morris of Ancre Hill Vineyard said: “We’re particularly pleased to receive the True Taste of Wales awards because our main market is Wales and it’s a recognition of what fellow Welsh people feel about what we are achieving. I’ve always said that Monmouthshire is the culinary capital of Wales and that’s underlined by the broad spread of businesses that were among the winners. We all live within a short distance of each other – in fact we buy our bread from Wigmore’s and sell wine to The Hardwick!”
Sandy Greenslade, Lead Food Officer for adventa, Monmouthshire’s EU-funded rural development initiative said: “It’s fantastic to see Monmouthshire’s producers and hospitality providers getting the recognition they deserve.”
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Monmouthshire food producers and hospitality providers scooped four gold and three bronze awards at this year’s Welsh food industry Oscars.
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