Double awards success for Cheshire's Three Wrens

Three Wrens in Cholmondeley has received accolades for both its apple crumble and bison grass gins.

It scooped a Golden Fork award at this year’s Guild of Fine Food Great Taste Awards for its apple crumble gin.

The golden forks are given to the “best of the best” of the winners at the awards – with only 16 given to companies from more than 14,000 entrants across 180 countries.

Great Taste is organised by the Guild of Fine Food and is the world’s largest, longest standing and most respected food accreditation scheme for artisan and speciality food producers.

Judges commented that the apple crumble gin was “truly astonishing" with "a fascinating, unique flavour”.

Although the exact recipe remains a secret, the flavour is made by macerating toasted oats in the base spirit before distilling with juniper, Cheshire apples, nutmeg, cinnamon, and sweet orange peel. Each batch takes three days to make by hand.

Three Wrens completed its double awards success by scooping the UK’s Best Flavoured Gin award at the Great British Food Awards for its bison grass gin.

Judges called it "a remarkable gin" and it scored the maximum marks possible of 10/10 for taste and 5/5 for provenance.

Owner and distiller, Nick Wadeson, said: “This has been a life changing month for us. To have won two of the top prizes in food and drink, judged by the UK’s best food and drink experts, is astounding and I could not be more proud of my team and business.

“Both our Bison Grass and Apple Crumble gins are found nowhere else, and we have put a huge amount of effort into creating our range of gins, pushing the boundaries of innovation in the category along the way.

"We have seen a huge increase in orders and demand since the results were announced, and it is great to be so busy, we are looking forward to a record-breaking Christmas!

"We are currently working on another major release to be launched in Spring 2022, so watch this space!“