Chase Wins Major Guild Award

Major Award for Chase Distillery in Guild’s Taste Awards!

In addition to Chase scooping four Gold awards for its' potato vodka and liqueurs in the Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste awards, it has now been award a Major Award by the Guild.

Products, like Chase Elderflower liqueur, that attained the 3 star gold award went through to a final "best of the best" round of major awards on 7th September in a high profile award ceremony at Fortnum & Masons and hosted by Radio 2 correspondent Nigel Barden.

Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans, top chef Anthony Worrall Thompson and food critic Charles Campion were amongst the judges who gave Chase's liqueur high marks.

Out of 5,000 products entered only 82 products gained the Gold 3 star award and only 15 out of those were awarded Major awards and one supreme award, which makes the win even more rewarding for William Chase's 'boutique' distillery which produces all of its vodka and liqueurs from its' farm in Herefordshire.

William Chase said: "It's great to have Chase liqueurs endorsed as it's not only my opinion how good they are. It helps us to explain how good our liqueurs are as it's not only the fruit but our naturally sweet smooth potato vodka that makes it."

This is not the first time Chase has won top awards in the pas few months: Their English potato vodka scooped a prestigious international accolade in May from the International Spirits Challenge which is renowned in the industry for being one of the hardest competitions in the world.

Lucas Hollweg, Food writer for the Times, was full of praise for the luxurious liqueur saying it is "There's a french thing out there and this is much much boozier which is a good thing and the french one is a bit of weakling in comparison. It has got a heafty blast of elderflowers in your mouth and your nose. Have some over ice, pour it over vanilla ice cream or splash it in some poached gooseberries. It's great!"