insideKENT Magazine Issue 37 - April 2015 | Page 64
FOOD+DRINK
Taste of Kent Awards cont
...and without further ado, here are your 2015 WINNERS:
Kent Butcher or Meat Producer of the Year
sponsored by Stephen’s
Winner: Stour Valley Game, Chartham
Finalists: Court Farm, Halling
MB Farms, Stockbury
Best Kent Juice Producer
sponsored by Kent County Council
Winner: Chegworth Valley, Harrietsham
Finalists: Juice Executive, Maidstone
Pine Trees, Doddington
Best Kentish Beer
sponsored by Rix & Kay Solicitors
Winner: Good Health – Goody Ales, Herne
Finalists: Gadds No.3 – Ramsgate Brewery, Ramsgate
Whitstable Bay Pale Ale – Shepherd Neame, Faversham
Kent Local Food Retailer of the Year
sponsored by Opies
Winner: Macknade Fine Foods, Faversham
Finalists: Monty’s Greengrocer, Birchington
Peter’s Produce, Herne Bay
Best Kentish Wine
sponsored by Investaco
Winner: Bacchus – Chapel Down Winery, Tenterden
Finalists: Ortega – Biddenden Vineyards, Biddenden
Balfour Brut – Hush Heath, Staplehurst
Kent Fishmonger of the Year
sponsored by Chapman’s of Sevenoaks Ltd
Winner: Hudson’s Fish, Herne Bay
Finalists: Folkestone Trawlers, Folkestone
Hales & Moore, Rainham
Best Kentish Cider or Perry
sponsored by Wilkins Kennedy FKC
Winner: Wise Owl Cider – Wise Owl Cider, Ashford
Finalists: Strong Kentish Cider – Biddenden Vineyards, Biddenden
Cheery Old Dudda – Dudda's Tun, Doddington
Annabel Clarke, Investaco
and Josh Donaghay-Spire,
Chapel Down Vineyard
Stephen Leadbitter, Stephen's, Darren Byron
and Steve King, Stour Valley Game
Colin Banister,
Wilkins Kennedy
and Richard Wise,
Wise Old Owl Cider
Charlotte Deme,
Chegworth Valley Juices
and Sean Holden, KCC
Richard Cripps, Rix and Kay, Karen Goody
and Pete McGabe, Goody Ales
William Opie, Opies and Finnian Dunlop,
Macknade Fine Foods
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Graham Garrett, The West House,
Claire Hudson, Sophie Howlett
and Clare Davis, Hudson's Fish