Great Taste Award for Coffee at The Shed!

Acorns Coffee and Cake takes home Great Taste 2024 award for 2 of it’s own Coffee beans!

Judged by the Guild of Fine Food’s expert panel, roasted in it’s coffee shop at The Shed, Acorns’ Colombia Fince Sofia and El Salvador Diamanté are  awarded a Great Taste 2 Star in the world’s most trusted food and drink accreditation scheme.

Bordon based Coffee Roastery and Shop has been named among the top food and drink producers globally this year, picking up a highly prized 2-star Great Taste award for its Colombia Finca Sofia and El Salvador Diamanté  Coffee beans.

13,672 products were put through the competition’s rigorous blind judging process;

They said the Colombia Finace Sofia has a gorgeous walnut crema, with that classically creamy appeal. On the nose, the coffee grounds have a light aroma of banoffee, while there is a rich marzipanny aroma with the espresso. Taking it straight, it is deeply flavourful, full of deep nutty taste, while with the addition of hot milk, it has a gentle fruity acidity, which is tempered with the lactose notes that bring out a creamy fruitiness that develops into a long finish with a light and welcome sweetness.

While the El Salvador bean had a good, rich crema in the mouth, this shows good balance revealing rounded flavours and hints of chocolate on a long finish that one judge thought revealed citrus notes. The acidity level is spot on and with the addition of milk, it was raised a level. The lactose in the milk softened the chocolate notes and added a comfortable, creamy sweetness to the drink.

The Great Taste Awards are the world’s most coveted food and drink awards. 3,938 products were awarded a Great Taste 1-star – ‘food and drink that delivers fantastic flavour’, 1,386 were awarded a Great Taste 2-star – ‘above and beyond delicious’, and 266 were awarded a Great Taste 3-star – ‘extraordinarily tasty food and drink’.

Dayne Cartwright, Founder, comments: “We are thrilled to have won a Great Taste award for our two of our Single Origin Series Coffee. We have dreamt of this moment and are so proud to be adding the prestigious black and gold Great Taste badge of honour to our products. We started Acorns Coffee in a horsebox, on a street corner, during the COVID pandemic.

Being recognised with a Great Taste 2-star means so much to independent producers, as it makes all the hard work and determination worth it! Great Taste is the most recognised accolade for taste and quality in the food and drink industry, so it’s a huge moment for us!  We are so proud of the team who can make this happen and a special thanks to the passionate and amazing Matt, our Head Roaster.

What is Great Taste?

Recognised as a stamp of excellence and actively sought out by food lovers and retailers alike, Great Taste, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, values taste above all else. All products in the line-up for judging are blind-tasted: every product is removed from its packaging so it cannot be identified, before entering a robust, layered judging process.

This year, judging took place over 92 days in Dorset and London, with a panel of more than 500 judges putting the products to the test. The line-up saw food and drink products submitted from an extraordinary 115 different countries across the world.

The Single Origin Series Coffee Beans including both the Colombian and El Salvador award winning coffees are available direct at  Acorns Coffee and The Shed, or online at www.acornscoffee.com.

The full list of this year’s winners and where to buy them can be found at www.gff.co.uk/directory and a wide range of the award-winning products are available to buy in delis, farm shops and independent retailers across the country.