Charles Macleod Butchers are the proud recipients of the Great Taste Gold Award for their renowned Stornoway Black Pudding.
The Great Taste Award, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, is the acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink, recognising and rewarding the exceptional standard of food and beverages available in the United Kingdom.
It has been described as the “Oscars” of the food world and the “epicurean equivalent of the Booker Prize”.
Producers enter their foods which are judged by at least three different judging panels. This year over 6000 products were entered from over 1300 companies. All the tasting is blind, and the judges are fine food retailers, chefs, restaurant critics, food writers and other industry experts.
This award is very important to the producers as it differentiates their products from the norm and provides the consumer with the guarantee that the products they are buying have a reliable seal of approval based on great taste and not marketing alone.
Of the 6,021 products entered this year, only 1,700 were awarded Gold.
Iain Macleod, partner in Charles Macleod, attended the Speciality & Fine Food Fair held this month at London Olympia where the 2010 Great Taste Award winners were unveiled.
“It’s great to be awarded this prestigious accolade for our product. The Guild of Fine Food is a well respected organisation whose primary driver is to promote excellence in speciality food and we are very proud of this achievement.”
Barley’s win Gold for their black pudding 9/9/10
Iain Macleod of Charlie Barley’s