Keen to enter in 2017? Email greattaste@gff.co.uk with your full company details and we will add you to our database.
The following 2016 entry documents are for reference only.
Entry Brochure | Food & Drink Categories | Great Taste T&Cs | Your Product Journey
You can download a step-by-step guide to how you enter online: English | French | Greek | Italian | Portuguese | Spanish
Your Product Journey – French | Greek | Italian | Portuguese | Spanish
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.
20th Jan | Members' Fortnight opensOpen for entries for Guild Members only |
2nd Feb | Members' Fortnight closesClosing for entries for Guild Members at special discounted members' rate |
3rd Feb | General Entry opensMembers and non-members. Normal rate of entry applies |
22nd Feb | Closed for entryClosed for entry midnight on 22 February unless we reach 10,000 entries before then |
7th Mar | Delivery instructionsFrom mid-March download notifications begin via email and will continue throughout March, April & May |
21st Mar | Judging commencesScheduled judging of products begins |
26th Apr | Tipperary roadshowGreat Taste judging on the road in Ireland |
17th May | London roadshowWeek-long judging in London at the historic Fulham Palace |
7th Jun | Belfast roadshowSupported by InvestNI to celebrate NI Year of Food and Drink |
16th Jun | Judging ends |
27th Jun | 3-star product recallFrom 27 June 3-star products re-called for judging |
13th Jul | 3-star Judging DayAll 3-star products are judged, followed by Supreme judging in the afternoon |
28th Jul | Results & FeedbackResults and feedback released |
6th Aug | Top 50 FoodsIn August, a list of the Top 50 Foods is announced |
5th Sep | Golden ForksGolden Fork trophies awarded at Great Taste Dinner, London |
Download the Great Taste 2016 national & regional press releases. For further press enquiries contact Amy Brice or Tortie Farrand or visit our Press Room.
Watch all the Great Taste 2015 Top 50 videos here.
What is GT? | History of GT | How we judge GT | GT Roll of Honour | Winners Case Studies
Interested in supporting or sponsoring Great Taste? Read more.
Over 400 judges working in small teams judged 10,000 food and drink products this year at 49 judging days, from April 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.
Last year the Great Taste judging roadshow went to Wales with a week’s tasting in Cardiff, supported by the Welsh Government. 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 search for all Great Taste winners from the last four years here
Great Taste trophy winners
GT15 Major Winners
GT14 Major Winners
GT13 Major Winners
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
