Over 500 judges working in small teams judged 12,366 food and drink products this year at 62 judging days, from March through to early July. They awarded one-, two or three-stars to the foods that deserved it and one of the judges on each team captured constructive feedback for the producers who didn’t quite make the grade.
Each year we take our judging roadshow somewhere different. This year saw us pack up from HQ and take the Great Taste team to Llandrillo College, north Wales. But more than that in April we opened our new judging, training and event space close Borough Market, London and we conducted three weeks of judging there in 2017. This is a permanent home in London for all Guild of Fine Food activities and will be available to hire for other food and drink businesses. As ever we judged at specialist test centres for tea, filter coffee and espresso with the remainder of the judging days at Guild HQ in Dorset.
You can watch more about our 2016 travels here…
A one, two or three-star accreditation means your food will stand out on the overcrowded retail shelves. Coupled with the extensive consumer and trade promotion by the Guild of Fine Food it will lead to increased sales and brand awareness.
Quite simply Great Taste encourages greater confidence and commercial success in small businesses locally, regionally, nationally and internationally whilst helping to improve the food and drink of those who don’t quite make the grade.
Results and feedback are now released. Producers should login above via MyGuild for their own information but you can search and filter for all results here.
The following Great Taste 2017 entry documents are provided for reference only
Entry Brochure | Category List | Terms & Conditions | Product Journey
You can download a step-by-step guide to how you enter online: English | French | Greek | Italian | Portuguese | Spanish
The entry brochure is available in these languages:
French | Greek | Italian | Portuguese | Spanish
The product journey is also available in these languages:
French | Greek | Italian | Portuguese | Spanish
Keen to enter in 2018? Email greattaste@gff.co.uk with your full company details and we will add you to our database.
1 August 2017 | Results and feedback |
Mid-August 2017 | List of Top 50 Foods announced |
4th September 2017 | Golden Fork trophies awarded at Great Taste Dinner, London |
January 2018 | Great Taste 2018Open for entry |
If you have achieved awards for your products in the last three years you can still order labels or the electronic award artwork to display on your product’s packaging. Please complete and return the relevant form:
Great Taste Artwork Guidelines | Great Taste Label Order Form | Great Taste Logo Request Form
Please refer to this P&P cost matrix if the delivery address for the labels is in Ireland, EU or rest of the world:
Download the Great Taste national & regional press releases. For further press enquiries contact Amy Brice or Tortie Farrand or visit our Press Room.
Watch all the 2016 Top 50 videos here.
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Four years after claiming the Great Taste Supreme Champion trophy, Northern Ireland’s Hannan Meats has become the first producer to win the title twice.
Read all about the triumph of its Glenarm Shorthorn four-rib beef roast here
Hannan Meats was among a host of producers who won trophies at the Great Taste awards dinner on September 5.
You can search for all Great Taste winners from the last four years here
