More than 250 products from around the country were awarded 2020 Blas na hÉireann titles this past weekend. Among the winners are no less than 35 of our wonderful producers. But we are especially proud to say it was Waterford’s Irish Gourmet Butter which picked up the Best Artisan Product award.
Produced by Billy and Mary Sharpe in Dunhill and inspired by Mary's grandmother, who was and All-Ireland Butter Making Champion in the 1936 and 1937 as well as a lecturer in Dairy Science in Maynooth University. The duo has form when it comes to Blas na hÉireann, having won silver in the flavoured butter category in 2017 for their garlic and herb butter and also finalists in 2018.
Other Waterford winners included Anchor Spirits, Beatha Bakery, Legacy Irish Cider, Mezze, Dessert First, Tastefully Yours and Blackwater Distillery.
But our award winning suppliers are spread far and wide throughout Ireland; and include Ballyhubbock Farm, Caherbeg Free Range Pork, Carlow Brewing Company, Donegal Rapeseed Oil, Drummond House Garlic, Durrow Mills, Fancy Fungi Mushrooms, Feighery's Farm, Glenisk, Isle of Crackers, Joe's Farm Crisps, Killowen, Kinsale Mead Co, Longueville House Beverages, Miena's Nougat, Naturally Cordial, O'Donnells Crisps, On The Pigs Back, O'Neills Dry Cure Bacon, Pizza da Piero, Saturday Pizzas, Skeaghanore West Cork Farm, Stonewell Cider, The Happy Pear, Wexford Home Preserves, Wicklow Way Wines, Wild About, Zanna Cookhouse.
You will find their ranges of food and drink below. The future is certainly looking very bright for Irish Food and innovation by great producers, we are more proud than ever to be part of their journey.
