Yummy Yorkshire, the innovative ice cream producer from Delph House Dairy Farm near Denby Dale, has been awarded a prestigious Great Taste Award by the Guild of Fine Food.
The Great Taste Awards are acknowledged by producers, retailers and consumers as the definitive, independent benchmark for speciality food and drink and Yummy Yorkshire has scooped a gold star for its striking blueberry ice cream flavour.
The ice cream company run by husband and wife team Jeremy and Louise Holmes already has eight Ice Cream Alliance Awards under its belt as well as a three-star gold Great Taste Award for its Lou’s Liquorice flavour.
This year’s Great Taste Awards saw a total of 1,300 producers enter 6,017 speciality food and drink lines, which were blind tasted by over 300 independent experts comprising leading chefs, food writers and buyers.
Commenting on the win Jeremy said: “Winning a Great Taste Award is a major achievement for a small, family run business like ours as it is one of the most trusted benchmarks for fine food and drink. The awards are carried out in a totally un-biased way, and judged on taste and texture by genuine ‘foodies’, who give full credit where it’s due.
“We gained a lot of recognition and new customers following our 3 gold star win last year and are hoping this year’s award will have a similarly positive effect on the business.”
The Great Taste Award is Yummy Yorkshire’s seventh award in the past 12 months. The artisan ice cream producer was recently of awarded Food & Drink Producer of the Year in the 2010 Yorkshire Rural Awards and was also named Local Food Producer (Prepared Produce) of the year at The Mayor of Kirklees’ 2009/2010 Local Food Awards.
This follows several award wins last winter for the company’s innovative Lou’s Liquorice Ice Cream flavour, which was awarded not only best Dairy Product, but also the coveted Supreme Product of the Year at the 2009 annual deliciouslyorkshire Awards.
Yummy Yorkshire Ice Cream is part of the third generation Delph House Dairy Farm business located on the A629 between Huddersfield and Penistone. Since launching in 2007 over 50 different flavours of traditional, contemporary and seasonal ice cream have been created using the fresh milk and cream from Yummy Yorkshire’s own 150 strong Holstein herd.
