Ice cream shortlisted for award
Vale of York ice cream manufacturer Yorvale is celebrating after being shortlisted for a specialist national award.
Acaster Malbis based Yorvale was delighted to learn that it was one of only five businesses to be shortlisted in the Taste of Excellence Award in the dairy category of The Cream Awards, the Dairy Industry Trade Awards organised by Farm Business magazine.
Further to a written nomination detailing why Yorvale deserved to win a Taste of Excellence award, Yorvale’s development director, Lesley Buxton was invited to submit product samples and later learned that its new Chocolate Orange Ripple ice cream had earned the farm based family business a coveted short list place.
Lesley said: “We’re delighted to be shortlisted in a national competition of this calibre and it’s quite ironic that a recipe inspired by Yorks’s confectionery history should have clinched it for us!”
Members of the Morrison’s taste testing team took part in the judging for the Taste of Excellence Award in Dairy on the 1 August at Morrison Supermarkets head office. The remaining 15 categories were judged at the Corinthia Hotel in London on the 2 August.
A panel of judges including Séan Rickard, Meurig Raymond, Chris Bartram, Peter Darlington, Justin Beckett, Caroline Whibley and Nick Green presided over the entries and the day was chaired by editor of Cow Management Rachael Porter.
The winners will be announced at a Gala Dinner at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on 5 September 2013.
