Great Taste Award for Northern Tea Merchants
Chesterfield-based Northern Tea Merchants has been announced as a recipient of a prestigious Great Taste star.
The world’s most coveted blind test-tasted food awards, has awarded a star to Northern Tea Merchants for its Heritage Range Hot Chocolate which is blended especially for Harrods.
The Heritage Range Hot Chocolate was one of 10,000 products to be judged by the panel of big ‘foodie’ names in the blind taste testing in the awards. The panel of over 400 judges tasted all of the food, completely stripped down from any packaging to ensure all judging was based on taste.
The hot chocolate blend was described by judges: “A really great rich look to this cup of hot chocolate; Smooth and velvety with a good body in the mouth; Creamy, slightly drying in the mouth, deeply chocolaty with a very rich finish.”
Being awarded a Great Taste Award is recognised as one of the biggest accomplishments in the field of specialty food. Great Taste has been described as the ‘Oscars of the food world’ and is widely acknowledged as the most respected food accreditation scheme for specialty food producers.
It is the first time that Northern Tea Merchants has entered the Great Taste Awards and James Pogson, director of Northern Tea Merchants, enthused: “We are incredibly proud to gain recognition for our hot chocolate blend for Harrods Heritage range. This is the first year we’ve entered the Great Taste Awards and we’re thrilled to have achieved such a prestigious award for our hot chocolate. Next year we will be aiming for the hallowed 3-star status!”
The Great Taste 2016 awards will culminate in a grand finale on Monday 5 September at the Royal Garden Hotel in London, where the overall winners for each region will be announced along with the Great Taste Supreme Champion 2016.
