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06 Aug 2012
Less than one year since the brand launched, Chesil Smokery in Bridport, Dorset, has picked up two-star Gold awards for its Smoked Duck Breast and Smoked Chicken Breast and one-star Gold awards for its Hot Smoked Salmon, Smoked Kippers and Smoked Cod’s Roe in the Great Taste Awards 2012, which is run by The Guild of Fine Food.
More than 8,500 products were entered into the 2012 Awards, which is the most rigorous awards scheme in the UK. Food and drink is blind-tasted by more than 350 food specialists, top chefs, restaurateurs, food critics, fine food retailers and cookery writers – every Great Taste Award is hard won.
Mark Firth, fishing enthusiast and managing director of Chesil Smokery, comments: “We launched in October 2011 and we were thrilled with the feedback we were receiving on our smoked produce so thought why not just go for it and see how we fared. To be successful on our first entry into a competition and win one and two-star gold awards is a dream come true. We work really hard at the smokery trialling new produce and making sure it not only tastes great but uses only the best meat, fish and poultry available to us.”
Chesil Smokery will now be able to display the Great Taste Award logo on its packs – a mark that highlights quality and flavour on products that are considered faultless foods.
“To have the approval of such a significant group of food judges is fantastic and spurs us on to continue making our meat, fish and mixed smoked boxes from the hottest little smokery in the west,” finished Mark.
The full range of delicious smoked fish, meat and poultry from the Chesil Smokery is available from www.chesilsmokery.com.
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Notes to editors
Chesil Smokery in Bridport, Dorset, is the brainchild of managing director Mark Firth, who has been hooked on fishing ever since leaving school at the age of 18 to become a ghilly on the Spey, and has travelled the world in his pursuit of all things piscatorial. Now he has channelled that passion into restoring an old smokery at Bridport and helping it to rise, quite literally, from the ashes.
Using English oak and apple wood in its kilns to produce a beautifully sweet and delicate aroma, Chesil Smokery sources only the finest produce – the fittest, leanest salmon (never fatty or oily) from the icy waters of the Shetlands; fresh fish from Samways, the famous fish merchants of Bridport, and the tastiest and freshest free-range chicken and poultry from Creedy Carver of Crediton, Devon. What’s more, all the wonderful fish, meat and poultry have lived the right kind of life (as far as humanely and practically possible).
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- The Taster Box from £25 – 10% cheaper than when bought à la carte. Get a free pressie to send to a friend when you subscribe. Available as a Fishy Box, Meaty Box and Mixed Box
- The Old English Box from £40 – crammed full of old favourites, all of which are 13% cheaper with a monthly subscription. Get a free pressie to send to a friend when you subscribe. Available as a Fishy Box, Meaty Box and Mixed Box
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