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Gold for Perthshire Preserves at The Original World Marmalade Championships

April 1, 2016 By Rachel Leave a Comment

Golden Boost for Perthshire Preserves at The Original World Marmalade Championships

 

Perthshire Preserves are  celebrating after scooping a gold award at the recent World Original Marmalade Awards in Cumbria.

Perthshire Preserves

Their orange marmalade with Deanston 12 year old malt whisky impressed a prestigious panel of judges and scored top marks on appearance, colour, consistency, aroma and flavour.

Perthshire Preserves

The champion preserve makers, Iain McKenzie and Kate Thornhill also won silver for two other marmalades, lemon, lime and passionfruit and their pink grapefruit and ginger.

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The artisan producers faced tough competition from marmalade makers around the world. Over 2,600 jars of marmalade from as far afield as Australia, India, Denmark, Japan, USA and New Zealand, were entered into the competition.

Iain and Kate started Perthshire Preserves in 2010 and since then the popular company has gone on to win a number of prestigious awards including……..

They are familiar faces at farmers markets throughout Scotland and also supply a number of ……hotels and toursit attrctions including Gleneagles Hotel and Cameron House and Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye.

Iain & Kate said they were delighted to win the award: “This is a golden award

for us in more ways than one! We’ve got our preserve pans at the ready to

 

Awards and Festival organiser Jane Hasell-McCosh said: “The standard of

the competition this year has been outstanding and congratulations to

Perthshire Preserves on their award and I am delighted that the awards

continues to grow with more and more entries each year. When I started this

competition 11 years ago my aim was to preserve the art of marmalade

making and raise the quality of marmalade worldwide and I think in the last 11

years with the help of a growing army of small artisan producers we have

saved and celebrated one of our great British traditions.” I truly believe we

have a ‘Renaissance in Marmalade Making’ and would like to congratulate

and thank each and every marmalade maker for making this possible.

The World’s Original Marmalade Awards & Festival boasts the sponsorship

backing of some of the most famous names in marmalade – Paddington,

Mackays, and Fortnum & Mason. The event’s 2016 charity beneficiaries are

Hospice at Home, Action Medical Research and Marie Curie in Scotland. To

date those golden pots of marmalade have raised over £150,000 for charity

with the aim of raising £200,000!

Further information can be found on the Perthsire Preserves Website

 

 

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