2010 Taste Award - winners in Clydesdale

For The Orchard's Biggar Flavour Raspberry Jam won a gold one star rating from the Great Taste Awards, the national benchmark for foods.

Also meat-ing the judges high expectations Carmichael Estate Farm Meats

venison sirloin steak won two gold stars.

Organised by The Guild of Fine Food, the Great Taste Awards employs the country's most rigorous judging system, ensuring the fairest, most accurate and trusted results.

"This is a great award to have won as we have been producing our Biggar Flavour range of jams, marmalades and chutneys for just over a year," said Orchard director Ranald Brown.

Equally delighted was Carmichael's assistant manager Andrew Carmichael (33), who said: "This was the first time we'd entered, so we didn't know what to expect. To get two gold stars is a massive accolade."

Also winning Great Taste Awards this year were Simple Simon's Pies of Coulter, owned by Bernard Alessi, which was awarded two gold stars for its honeyed venison collops pie and one gold star for Danny Wild's

magnificent cheese and onion pie; and Humphrey Errington of Carnwath scooped a two star award for his Lanark White Cheese.

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