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North
Yorkshire's Sloe Gin-producing company SLOEmotion has notched up
another prestigious national award - this time for its Sloe Whisky.
The Great Taste Awards 2009,
announced last week, awarded an impressive two Gold Stars to the Sloe
Whisky, firmly establishing the liqueur as an alternative tipple to
its better-known sister, Sloe Gin, which was awarded a Gold Star at
last year's Great Taste Awards.
Like all SLOEmotion's liqueurs,
the Sloe Whisky is made using hand-picked wild sloes and produced in
the traditional way using high concentrations of fruit to ensure a
fabulous flavour. The sloes are steeped in a three year-old blended
Scotch whisky and sugar.
The resulting taste is
predominantly aromatic cherry flavour, a touch of almond from the
stone of the fruit, a pleasant hint of whisky and a smooth, rounded
finish with a strong warming glow.
Jonathan Curtoys, Managing
Director of SLOEmotion beams with pride. "I'm over the moon
to be awarded the coveted black and gold logo - with two gold stars!
Our Sloe Whisky is always extremely popular at tastings and has a
fast-growing fan club - even people who claim they don't like whisky
are converted after just one sip! It means a great deal to be given
the seal of approval by independent experts in the speciality food industry."
The national Great Taste Awards -
dubbed the 'epicurean equivalent of the Booker prize' and
acknowledged as the benchmark for fine food and drink in the UK among
the country's retailers and consumers - are organised by The Guild of
Fine Food and have been running since 1993. All entries undergo
rigorous tests, including blind tastings, by a specially selected
panel of experts, including leading chefs, buyers, food critics and
deli owners.
Of the 4873 products entered in
this year's Awards, 639 achieved one gold star, 308 received two
stars and 83 were awarded three stars.
The Great Taste Award 2009 joins
an impressive mantelpiece of awards for SLOEmotion's tasty offerings
- their Sloe Gin Chocolate Truffles came top in the confectionery
category of the Deliciouslyorkshire Awards 2008, fighting off fierce
competition. As well as collecting a Gold Star at the Great Taste
Awards 2008, SLOEmotion's Sloe Gin won the Gold Medal in the drinks
category of the Daily Telegraph's Taste of Britain Awards 2007 and
the Yorkshire Post Readers Award 2007, as voted for by the customers
of Harvey Nichols Foodmarket.
All SLOEmotion's liqueurs can be
served neat - at room temperature or over ice - as an after-dinner
digestif at any time of the year, as a warming shot on a cold wintry
day, or as a refreshingly different cocktail base for the warmer
summer months.
The award-winning Sloe Whisky
tastes delicious as a Pink Whisker - in a chilled hi-ball glass add
one third Sloe Whisky to two thirds traditional ginger beer and
crushed ice. Add a generous squeeze of lime around the rim and place
the spent lime in the glass.
SLOEmotion is a small family-run
business based at Green Farm, Barton-le-Willows, near York. As well
as its award-winning Sloe Gin and Sloe Whisky, SLOEmotion also
produces Sloe Vodka and Sloe Brandy; mouth-watering Sloe Gin
Chocolate Truffles, Sloe Whisky Chocolate Truffles and Sloe Brandy
Chocolate Truffles; and a delicious spicy and plummy Sloe Chutney.
SLOEmotion products can be
purchased from www.sloemotion.com
or by calling 0844 800 1911. All our products can be purchased in
single or combination smart black gift boxes, and delivered to the
door, making them the ideal present for either sex, almost any age
and any time of the year.
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