A Cumbrian honey producer has been named among the top food and drink producers globally this year.

Nook Farm Honey in Bailey picked up a highly-prized two-star Great Taste award for its ‘Cumbrian Wildflower Honey’.

More than 14,000 products were put through the competition’s rigorous blind judging process; and Nook Farm Honey was dubbed ‘sophisticated and nuanced, delicious yet delicate’ at the world’s most coveted food and drink awards.

4,078 products were awarded a Great Taste 1-star – ‘food and drink that delivers fantastic flavour’, 1,237 were awarded a Great Taste 2-star – ‘above and beyond delicious’, and 241 were awarded a Great Taste 3-star – ‘extraordinarily tasty food and drink’.

Nook Farm describes the honey as: “Described as a clear, runny honey, very light on the nose with herbaceous and floral notes on the palate.

“Sophisticated and nuanced, delicious yet delicate.

“Clear, almost transparent.

“An almost herbaceous note on the nose.

“Sweetly honeyed with a balancing astringency.

“Reasonable length, sweet finish, citrussy, and a little floral.

“A very pale honey with a silky texture and a level of sweetness that sits so well on the palate.

“It delivers a balanced complexity of flavours underpinned by the faintest hints of wax from the honeycomb.”

A spokesperson from Nook Farm Honey said: “Cumbrian Wildflower Honey was a big hit with the Great Taste judges.

“It is collected from wildflowers such as willow herb, blackberry, clover, thistles, meadowsweet, and heather all playing their part in the complexity of tastes in this exclusive honey.

“It is a luxury product and we often compare it to a fine wine or champagne in its quality and pedigree.

“We harvest our honey in late summer and it is always a time of great excitement and anticipation.

“Producing honey in our part of Cumbria is not easy but worth it, supply is limited and demand extremely high.

“Cumbrian Wildflower Honey was one of 5,556 products to receive a Great Taste award in 2022 (which is only 39.1 per cent of the total products entered).”

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