Pembrokeshire Sea Salt Great Taste Awards 2020 Announcement
We are delighted to announce we have just been awarded our fifth and sixth Great Taste Awards! Our Sea Salt range is fast becoming a galaxy of stars.
Our Pembrokeshire Sea Salt with Chilli has been awarded 2 stars, and our brand new and previously unreleased Pink Peppercorn Sea Salt awarded 1 star. The Judges’ comments were music to our ears and we couldn’t have asked for better feedback! Of the Chilli Sea Salt the Judges remarked:
‘This beautifully coloured pale orange salt looks delicate and intriguing. It also has a lovely sweet pepper nose to it, which is really inviting. The flavour is quite incredible. The salt on its own has a beautiful, clean nature to it. The level of heat builds and gives a lip-tingling heat with a lovely hint of sweetness and a well rounded heat. We can think of many applications for this salt. Good examples of Innovative and well-made products like this are so few and far between, that when you find one, it’s a real treat.’
‘A wonderful coral colour to these beautiful salt crystals – they would be a real talking point at the table. A deep mineral aroma with a true chilli pepper fragrance. Bold and true chilli flavour right from the start along with the salt – these two flavours work well together and this product has been expertly balanced to ensure both ingredients shine. An excellent level of heat with a proper seaside salinity makes this ridiculously moreish. Crisp and bracing, like a blast of spicy sea air. No harsh edges to the salt. A properly clever product that would absolutely enhance anything it is added to. Clean finish with a satisfying lingering heat. It is remarkable how much we are enjoying sitting here eating salt crystals like a snack. Hats off to the producer.’
This year we also introduced our new Pink Peppercorn sea salt. Until now it has only been released to our Chefs and friends, and of course-the Great Taste Award panel. For the Launch of our brand-new Pink Peppercorn Sea Salt we have been awarded 1 Star! Judges commented:
‘Beautiful large flakes of sea salt ingrained with pink peppercorns. The salty crystals are sharp and crunchy and release the wonderful pink peppercorns on to the tongue leaving warm pink pepper and pinecones notes on the tongue with hints of citrus at the end. Beautifully made and a real delight to eat.’
‘Beautiful shards and pyramid structure crystals speckled with vibrant pink peppercorn pieces. Heady and aromatic on the nose with pungent milled pink peppercorns and citrus peel freshness. A rich and intense burst of flavours and zingy lemon spice in the mouth tail off gently to a mellow and rounded finish. A delightful addition to the condiments cupboard and appetisingly attractive among condiments in any place setting.’
These are our fifth and sixth Great Taste Awards in 3 years. Pembrokeshire Sea Salt Co. started from Sherrill and Josh’s home kitchen back in 2016 when we began hand harvesting sea salt from the waters of Cwm-yr-Eglwys in the Pembrokeshire National Park, less than a mile away.
In 2018 We entered our 1st Great Taste Awards and we given 1 star for our Natural Sea Salt (‘a real, clean taste of the sea’) and 2 stars for our Sichuan Pepper with the judges noting the freshness of our ingredients and commenting that it was an attractive and ‘aromatic salt with distinct citrus hit, developing waves of salt and heat – we feel this is versatile and could be used for so many meats and fishes’. Emboldened, the very next year in 2019 we entered twice again and were awarded 1 star each for our locally foraged Wild Garlic and our ethical Sargal Saffron Sea Salts, the judges commented on the richness of colour of our Sea Salts and their well-balanced flavours.
Best of all, because we have won back-to-back awards for the last 3 years, we are now recognised as a Great Taste Producer! Which is an accolade we could only have dreamt about back in 2016 when we were still trying to find waders that don’t leak, deciphering tide tables and analysing salinity data to create the perfect flake! The Great Taste Awards are the world’s largest and most trusted food and drink awards, so to be recognised in this manner by the food and drink industry is both humbling and gratifying.
We would like to thank every single customer, business and fellow producer who has supported our business since its conception and over this most stressful and unforgettable of years, and the amazing Chefs who recognised and believed in us, and encourage us continually to create more exciting flavours and keep us on top of our game.
Last, but by no means least, we would like to announce the re-release of our Black Truffle Sea Salt! We originally stopped producing Black Truffle Sea Salt in 2018 as, although we were happy with our stark white, crisp, sea salt flakes ,speckled with black truffle slithers, we wanted to reduce our carbon footprint and use Welsh black truffle. Now we use truffles from The Welsh Truffle Co. on the Monmouthshire border for their unique taste and aroma (as well as their proximity!). After months of recipe tinkering, we can finally say we are happy with the results! Check out our full range at pembrokeshireseasalt.co.uk.
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