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 64 Graham Garrett, The West House, Claire Hudson, Sophie Howlett and Clare Davis, Hudson's Fish