2020 NZ ICE CREAM
AWARDS
NZ ICE CREAM AWARDS TROPHIES
(Wednesday 4 November 2020)
Fourteen of Aotearoa’s best ice creams and gelatos made from Queenstown to
Auckland by a selection of boutique and large producers have been named Champions
at tonight’s NZ Ice Cream Awards 2020.
In the first weekend of October, 17 judges assessed 316 products to find New
Zealand’s best ice creams, gelatos, sorbets and dairy-free frozen products.
Following announcement of gold and silver medal winners last week, two People’s
Choice Winners, 14 Champions and two Supreme Champions were announced at the
NZ Ice Cream Awards on Wednesday 4 November.
Top gongs are awarded to; NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers Association Supreme Champion, Much
Moore Ice Cream Co, Much Moore Awesome Vanilla Ice Cream and Formula
Foods Supreme Boutique Champion, Lewis Road Creamery, Double Mint and
Dark Chocolate Ice Cream.
Announcing the 2020 Champions, Chief Judge Jackie Matthews said “Trophy winners
have perfected all aspects of their product, including ingredients used, recipes,
processing controls, packing, and freezing. It’s the attention to detail in
every aspect and bringing it together with the right balance which achieves
excellence.”
2020 NZ Ice Cream Awards judging.
Jackie said the Supreme Champion, Much Moore Awesome Vanilla Ice Cream was
an excellent ice cream with fresh vanilla flavour which is superbly smooth
and creamy. Much Moore Awesome Vanilla Ice Cream was also named Givaudan/IMCD
Champion Premium Vanilla Ice Cream.
Much Moore is is a family-owned New Zealand ice cream company, which has been
making award- winning ice cream and frozen treats for over 30 years. Marcus
Moore heads the team of ice cream makers who believe the possibilities for
making incredible tasting ice cream are endless.
2020 NZ Ice Cream Awards judging.
Formula Foods - Supreme Boutique Champion, Lewis Road Creamery, Double
Mint and Dark Chocolate Ice Cream was a superbly crafted delicious
ice cream according to Jackie Matthews. “The flavour was fresh peppermint with
a hint of spearmint, perfectly balanced with chocolate flakes. Rich and creamy,
it had a lovely chocolate melt.”
Lewis Road Creamery, Double Mint and Dark Chocolate Ice Cream also received
the Chelsea Sugar - Champion Premium Ice Cream Champion award. In addition
Lewis Road Creamery was also named NZ Life & Leisure - Champion Open Creative
Champion for its innovative Lemon & Gin Botanicals Ice Cream.
Recently wholly purchased by Southern Pastures, Lewis Road Creamery was started
by Peter Cullinane in his kitchen in 2012. Lewis Road Creamery premium dairy
products are stocked in major supermarkets and specialty food stores across
New Zealand as well as in Whole Foods and other stores in the United States
and Woolworths in Australia.
2020 NZ Ice Cream Awards judging.
Always a hotly contested award, Tip Top French Vanilla Ice Cream was
named Fonterra New Zealand Champion for Standard Vanilla Ice Cream. The award
was one of three for New Zealand’s biggest ice cream maker Tip Top. The other
awards were: ALTO/Pact Group Champion Standard Ice Cream Award for Tip
Top Crave Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream and Kiwi Labels Champion Low
Fat or Frozen Yoghurt for Tip Top Mango Lassi Frozen Yoghurt.
Taranaki’s plant-based creamery, Little Liberty, creator of premium plant-based
frozen desserts and nut milk blends won two awards. Little Liberty
Creamery, Almond Mocca was named Hawkins Watts Dairy-Free Champions
as well as Tetra Pak New to Market Champion.
A perennial favourite is the Pacific Flavours & Ingredients Kids’ Choice Champion.
This year it was judged by 10 pupils from Auckland Normal Intermediate. The
year 7 pupils won a school essay competition to judge 10 entries and the winner
is entirley their choice. The group choose Talley’s Blueberry Ice Cream as
the Pacific Flavours & Ingredients Kids’ Choice Champion.
2020 NZ Ice Cream Awards Kids Choice judging.
For the first time the NZ Ice Cream Awards included two People’s Choice categories – both
won emphatically by Hamilton’s Duck Island Ice Cream. Popular vote awarded
Duck Island the NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers Association People’s Choice Favourite
NZ Ice Cream for its Duck Island Fairy Bread and its Grey
Street, Hamilton East scoop shop was named DKSH People’s Choice Favourite NZ
Scoop Store.
The Awards, owned and run by the NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers Association, have
been held since 1997 and are the country’s only national ice cream, gelato,
sorbet and dairy-free frozen products competition.
 Full
list of 2020 New Zealand Ice Cream Awards Trophy winners.
New Zealand Ice Cream Awards.
ENDS
For more information please contact Nicola McConnell, nicola@marvellousmarketing.co.nz or
027 2188120.
NZ ICE CREAM AWARDS MEDALS ANNOUNCED
(Tuesday 27 October 2020)
Gold and Silver Medal winners for the 2020 New Zealand Ice Cream Awards have been announced today.
In the first weekend of October, 17 judges assessed over 300 entries to find New Zealand’s best ice creams, gelatos, sorbets and dairy-free frozen products. The top gold medal winners announced today are in the running to be among 13 Champions and two Supreme Champions which will announced at the NZ Ice Cream Awards on Wednesday 4 November.
Photo: The 2020 NZ Ice Cream
Awards judges.
Announcing the medal winners, Chief Judge Jackie Matthews made special mention of the exceptional quality of this year’s Gold Medals. “One of the objectives of the Awards is to raise the overall industry standard and New Zealand made ice cream has been of world-class quality for many years. This year the gelato and sorbet were excellent, and also truly world-class.”
“Another trend was the increase in savoury flavours this year. Recently TV’s MasterChef has been incorporating ice creams and gelatos in main course dishes and some of those entered in the NZ Ice Cream Awards this year would fit well in there, showing ice cream can be enjoyed any time. Also noticeable was an increase in plant-based and low-fat options over last year’s entries.”
The Awards, owned and run by the NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers Association, have been held since 1997 and are the country’s only national ice cream, gelato, sorbet and dairy-free frozen products competition.
Winners will be announced at the 2020 NZ Ice Cream Awards Gala Awards Dinner in Auckland on Wednesday 4 November.
Medal
winners are listed here.
ENDS
For more information please contact Nicola McConnell, nicola@marvellousmarketing.co.nz or 027 2188120.
NZ ICE CREAM AWARDS 2020 TROPHIES
Supreme Champions
o Supreme Champion
o Formula Foods Supreme Boutique Champion
Category Champions
o Best of Fruit Champion
o Fonterra NZ Standard Vanilla Ice Cream Champion
o IMCD Givaudan Premium Vanilla Ice Cream Champion
o ALTO/Pact Group Standard Ice Cream Champion
o Chelsea Sugar Premium Ice Cream Champion
o Open Creative Ice Cream and Open Creative Gelato/Sorbet
Champions
o Sensient Technologies Gelato Champion
o In-Fruit Sorbet Champion
o Hawkins Watts Low Fat/Frozen Yoghurt Champion
o Dairy-Free Champion
o New Zealand Food Safety Export Champion
o New to Market Champion
o Pacific Flavours & Ingredients Kids’ Choice
People's Choice Awards
o People's Choice – Favourite NZ Ice Cream
o AXIEO People's Choice – Favourite NZ Ice Cream or
Gelato Store
NEW ERA FOR NEW
ZEALAND ICE CREAM AWARDS
(Wednesday 8 July 2020)
Following a review of the annual New Zealand Ice Cream Awards the New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers Association has appointed Marvellous Marketing to run the Awards.
Making the announcement, Association President Alex Gimenez said, “The NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers Association is delighted to announce the appointment of Marvellous Marketing to run the NZ Ice Cream Awards along with our annual conference in November.”
“As well, Marvellous Marketing has been tasked with raising the profile of the quality of NZ-produced ice cream. This all coincides with a time when more than ever, consumers are wanting to support local producers” he said.
“The Association acknowledges the tremendous work of Jenny de Lisle and her team organising the Awards over recent years. We’re delighted that Jenny remains Executive Secretary for the Association and will be working closely with Marvellous Marketing to ensure we are doing the very best job for members, sponsors, trade partners and consumers.”
As well as new organisers, the Association will soon confirm the appointment of a new Chief Judge, who will oversee assessment and judging of the more than 300 entries expected for this year’s Awards.
Entries for the New Zealand Ice Cream Awards 2020 open in early August for six
weeks. The timeline for the New Zealand Ice Cream Awards 2020 is:
• Entries open – Monday 3 August 2020
• Judging – Saturday 26 September at The Food Bowl in South Auckland
• Conference and Gala Awards Dinner – Wednesday 4 November, Cordis Auckland
To connect New Zealand ice cream makers with Kiwi ice cream lovers Marvellous Marketing has established a social media presence for the Association with ‘NZ Ice Cream Lovers’ Facebook and Instagram pages. Additionally, they are working with retailers, ice cream and gelato makers to develop NZ Ice Cream Month which will be held in February 2021, along with a nationwide search for the country’s favourite ice cream maker as well as its favourite ice cream store/parlour.
Since establishing Marvellous Marketing in late 2016 to run the Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards, Directors Kathie Bartley and Nicola McConnell have become food awards specialists. In addition to owning and organising the annual Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards and the biannual New Zealand Chocolate Awards, the pair are engaged to run the NZ Champions of Cheese Awards and from this month the New Zealand Ice Cream Awards.
ENDS
For more information please contact Nicola McConnell, nicola@marvellousmarketing.co.nz or 027 2188120.
ABOUT THE NEW ZEALAND ICE CREAM
AWARDS
The New Zealand Ice Cream Awards were introduced in 1997 by The New Zealand Ice
Cream Manufacturers' Association (Inc.) to promote and publicise the high standard
of New Zealand ice cream.
Judging is held in October (originally at the Massey University Institute of
Food, Nutrition and Human Health (IFNHH), Albany campus; now at The FOODBOWL,
Mangere,
Auckland), 3 weeks prior to the Association's Annual Conference.
Awards judging, 2017
Judging involves awarding points for a number of key attributes in different
properties. Appearance is worth 10 points, Body and Texture -
30 points, Flavour - 50 points and Melting properties - 10
points. Gold Awards are given to entries with more than 95 points, Silver Awards
to those between 90 and 95 points.
Over its history there have been various categories for Standard and Premium
ice creams, Gelato, Sorbet and Low
Fat.
A popular category has been Open Creative which was established
to promote creativity in ice cream and frozen confectionery. Examples of entries
in this category would be products made and served on the premises of restaurants,
hotels and cafés, or produced by polytechnics, or R&D departments of manufacturers
and suppliers. This category is now judged in two sections; Ice Cream and Gelato
& Sorbet.
The Export category was introduced for products designed specifically
for export and a Packaging category was also added to cater
for Packaging only, to encourage innovation and creativity in packaging, as well
as complying with the New Zealand Packaging Accord.
The New to Market Award recognises
the top scoring ice cream, gelato, sorbet, low fat or non dairy
product that
has been newly introduced by a NZICMA
Member in the past 18 months.
Local schoolchildren are invited to be guest judges for the Kids
Choice category.
The children are briefed by the Chief Awards Judge, and judge
each entry according to the following criteria:
 Appearance
Body
and Texture
Flavour
Overall
liking
Then it comes down to rating each entry on a scale of "Really
yukky" to "Really yummy" and choosing their
overall favourite. There is a need for gender split between
the guest judges as boys often have definite preferences
from girls!
Kids Choice judging, 2017
Entries have the chance to win Silver, Gold, 'Best in Category' and Supreme Awards.
Since 2011, two Supreme Awards have been on offer - one for
Large Manufacturers, and a separate Supreme Award for Boutique Manufacturers.
To qualify as a Boutique manufacturer, the manufacturer must produce less than
500,000 litres per annum.
The New Zealand Ice Cream Awards are announced and presented at the NZICMA Conference
Awards Dinner, usually held on the Friday evening of the Association's annual
Conference.
Historical information on the New Zealand Ice Cream
Awards for the years 2000 through to 2018 is also
available here on the Association's website:
Any further information is available from:
Mrs Jenny de Lisle
NZICMA Secretary
Office: 04 385 1410
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