At Yorkshire Wolds Apple Juice Co. we believe that the positive comments of our customers are a great result for a fantastic product, but we are also very happy to receive national and local product awards as well! Our repeated results from The Great Taste Awards have earned us the right to be a Great Taste Awards Producer.
Great Taste Awards in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024
The Great Taste Awards are the acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink product awards and have been described as the ‘Oscars’ of the food world and the ‘epicurean equivalent of the Booker prize’.
Great Taste is the world’s largest and most trusted food and drink product awards. Great Taste stars are highly respected seals of approval, with 3 stars being the best result. Visit Great Taste Awards for more information.
We are delighted that 10 of our juices now carry a Great Taste Star Award.
National Fruit Show Awards in 2020, 2022 & 2023
The National Fruit Show hold a Apple Juice Competition almost every year. Their shows have been in existence for over 90 years and their October show is the largest competitive display of commercially grown fruit staged in the UK.
2020 was the first year that we entered the competition. The organisers said that the 2020 competition saw a good number of entries giving the judges a challenging task. With that in mind, we are especially pleased that both of our entries won 2nd place in their respective categories! We were able to enter again in 2022 when we were really pleased to win the Blended Juices Category with our Apple & Raspberry Juice.
Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards in 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024
The Taste Awards are run by Deliciouslyorkshire, the Regional Food Group for Yorkshire and the Humber, who celebrate the very best of Yorkshire food and drink. The Awards enjoy record entries across their hotly contested categories before the products are judged by a seasoned panel of industry experts, chefs, supermarket buyers, writers, consultants and food entrepreneurs, who carefully work their way through each of the entries, before whittling them down to the coveted list of finalists. We are really pleased to have been finalists in 2021 & 2022 before being delighted to win Best Cold Beverage with our Cloudy Apple Juice in 2023. In 2024 we were ecstatic to win Best Cold Beverage again with our Apple & Damson Juice.
Countryside Alliance Awards 2024
In 2024 we were delighted to win the vote for the North of England section of the Local Food and Drink award, as voted for by our customers. This lead to us being shortlisted as a national finalist. Thank You to all of our customers who took the time to vote for us.
York Mix Radio Choice Awards 2023
The York Mix Radio Awards have been created to celebrate local businesses throughout the York and Selby areas. Voted for by customers instead of judges, to win a silver award in our category was very pleasing. Thank You to all of our customers who took the time to vote for us.
Hull & East Yorkshire Tourism Board REYTA’s Awards in 2022
The Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards are organised by Visit Hull and East Yorkshire to recognise the significance of tourism to this area and celebrate the quality of businesses and individuals working within it. Now in its 12th year, the REYTAs has 16 awards over a wide range of categories up for grabs for the very best businesses in the region. 2022 was the first year we have entered the Remarkable Local Producer Award, so we are really pleased to have been finalists this year. https://www.visithullandeastyorkshire.co.uk/
Garbutt & Elliott Yorkshire Food & Drink Business Awards in 2020
2020 sees the awards in their third year. The awards are designed to celebrate both Yorkshire’s growing food and drink industry and businesses from across the region who are making a real impact by supporting Yorkshire’s growing position in the national and international food and drink market place. The 2020 awards are made up of 15 categories with a total of 57 shortlisters. The winners of each of the categories are entered into an Overall Winner category.
2024 Awards
| Great Taste Awards | Apple & Damson Juice – 2* “The juice is a pretty pink colour with a sweet apple aroma. The flavour in the mouth is really refreshing, with a sharpness and sweetness that are in good balance.” “The taste is sharp and sweet and tangy and fruity, with the damson adding a clever and welcome tarty dimension. Fresh and velvety in the mouth. Delicious!” |
| Great Taste Awards | Spiced Apple Juice – 1* “The aroma is of stewed apple pudding!” “The spices are really well balanced and the sweetness level is perfect, allowing the sharpness of the apple to shine through.” “Christmas in a glass, this cloudy juice has a warming, fragrant spicy aroma. On tasting warm, the Cox apples are tart and the spice is comforting” |
| Great Taste Awards | Pear & Apple Juice – 1* “A lovely and refreshing juice blend, this smells and tastes of an English orchard. The pear flavour is more dominant with the apple juice providing acidity and balance in the background.” “This is a light, authentic British juice” |
| DeliciouslYorkshire | Apple & Damson Juice Winner of the Best Cold Beverage 2024 |
| Countryside Alliance Awards | Local Food and Drink Category Regional winner for the North of England, National Finalist. |
2023 Awards
| Great Taste Awards | Apple & Ginger Juice – 2* “This is a visually attractive fruit juice with a zingy ginger bouquet. The ginger lifts the apple flavour and it is not oversweet. The combination of ginger and apples really works. It is refreshing and appealing.” “A lightly golden, natural-looking juice with an enticing ginger nose. It tastes of lovely fresh, ripe apple, with the perfect level of sweetness and acidity and a delicious kick of ginger.” “This is so refreshing. It’s crisp, with the perfect dry-sweet balance and a clear hit of ginger. We loved this and were happy to award two stars.” |
| Great Taste Awards | Apple & Blackberry Juice – 1* “A beautiful, rosy juice juice with an aroma of a blackberry and apple crumble. The acidity levels are spot-on, creating a refreshing, enjoyable drink. The blackberries have been added in the perfect quantity to impart a bramble flavour but not to overpower the sparkly notes created by the apple. A great celebration of British ingredients.” |
| DeliciouslYorkshire | Cloudy Apple Juice Winner of the Best Cold Beverage 2023 |
| National Fruit Show Apple Juice Competition | Cloudy Sweet Blend Apple Juice 2nd Place in the Class 41 Blended Apple Juice Category Cloudy Apple & Blackberry Juice 3rd Place in the Class 42 Blended Juices Category |
| York Mix Radio Choice Awards | Best Independent High Street Business Category Silver Award |
| Yorkshire Life Food & Drink Awards | Drinks Producer of the Year Award Finalist |
2022 Awards
| Great Taste Awards | Breaburn Apple Juice – 1* “A refreshing and sweet apple juice with a hint of acidity to balance out the sugars. We could tell, from taste, that this cloudy apple juice is all natural and appreciate that it contains no artificial additives.” “A pale gold/green juice with a natural apple aroma and flavour. The acidity and natural sweetness is nicely balanced.” |
| National Fruit Show Apple Juice Competition | Traditional Cloudy Apple & Raspberry Juice 1st Place in the Class 42 Blended Juices |
| Hull & East Yorkshire Tourism REYTA Awards | Shortlisted for the Remarkable Local Producer Award |
| Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards | Shortlisted for the Best Cold Beverage Award |
2021 Awards
| Great Taste Awards | Cloudy Apple & Strawberry Juice – 2* “A really beautiful, natural cloudy green with a subtle pink hue. Aromas of cooked jam and orchard. Tart, fresh, clean apple roundness contrasting with a juicy, warm, summer, strawberry sweetness. The fragrant and perfumed character of the apple comes to the fore. Really well balanced. Fully textured on the palate with a smooth finish, apple notes lingering for a while. Delightful and well made. Unique and unexpected. A potential ingredient for a remarkable apple Daquari.” “This golden juice displays aromas of ripe orchard apples and hints of strawberry. The flavour is full on with lovely apple complemented by vibrant strawberry. We like that it isn’t too sweet and that the natural acidity of the fruit shines through. It’s lovely to see a natural twist on cloudy apple juice.” “A perfect balance of fruit” “A cloudy and delicate drink – with a strong and flavoursome Cox’s Orange Pippin – you can tell it’s in there. Lots of perfume and deep apple notes. Fresh and delicious. There are some warm summer notes of strawberry on the finish, which are delightful. This juice has great integrity.” |
| Great Taste Awards | Cloudy Apple & Rhubarb Juice – 1* “Cloudy appearance with a pink hint. The nose is appley. The apple sweetness comes through at the start and slowly the rhubarb tartnesss integrates itself into the lovely apple flavour. We think this is a fab combination of flavours and a balanced juice.” “Great looking cloudy juice with gentle aroma. The flavour is very clean, pure and simple – the balance between the apples and rhubarb is spot on to give fruit, sharpness and sweetness in this very refreshing, delicious juice.” |
2020 Awards
| Great Taste Awards | Cloudy Apple Juice – 1* “Deep golden juice, looks a treat. Bright appley aroma, very inviting – with a hint of pear sweetness. A bold sweet juice, tastes pure and natural, full of vibrant apple flavour. A wonderful consistency to drink, this juice is both clean and refreshing.” |
| Garbutt & Elliott Yorkshire Food & Drink Business Awards | Winners of the Quench Yorkshire Award. Shortlisted in the SME Business of the Year (below £500k) Award. |
| National Fruit Show Apple Juice Competition | Traditional Cloudy Apple Juice 2nd Place in the Class 41 Single Variety Juice Traditional Cloudy Pear & Apple Juice 2nd Place in the Class 42 Blended Juices |
| Award Year | Award Type | Award Received |
| 2017 | Great Taste Awards | Cloudy Apple & Elderflower Juice – 2* Cloudy Apple & Rhubarb Juice – 1* |
| 2016 | Great Taste Awards | Cloudy Apple & Rhubarb Juice – 3* Cloudy Apple Juice – 2* |
| 2015 | Great Taste Awards | Cloudy Apple & Elderflower Juice – 1* |
| 2015 | Great British Food magazine’s Farm Produce Awards | Winner of the Best Fruit-Based Non Alcoholic Drink |
| 2015 | Yorkshire Life Magazine Awards | Winner of the Best Drink Product |
| 2014 | Great Taste Awards | Cloudy Apple Juice – 2* |
| 2013 | Great Taste Awards | Cloudy Apple Juice – 3* |
Winner of the Best Fruit-Based Non Alcoholic Drink in 2015
The Great British Food Awards were launched in 2014 to celebrate the country’s finest home-grown ingredients, as well as the hard-working folk who produce and cook with them. https://www.greatbritishfoodawards.com/
Drink Product of the Year Award in 2015
The Yorkshire Life Food & Drink Awards are designed to highlight the good and the great from the region’s food and drink industry – including local producers and suppliers, chefs, restaurants, pubs and hoteliers, and people who care about the countryside and the future of our local environment. https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/yorkshire/22635861.drink-product-year-winner-yorkshire-life-food-drink-awards-2015/