Morelli’s wins UK Great Taste Golden Fork for Northern Ireland
Morelli’s Ice Cream has won the Regional Golden Fork for Northern Ireland in the finals of the UK Great Taste Awards. The company gained the award for its caramelised hazelnut flavour of ice cream.
Based in Coleraine, county Derry, Morelli’s is one of the leading producers of authentic Italian ice cream with sales outside Northern Ireland to multiple retailers in Great Britain, including Morrison’s supermarkets and Tesco Ireland in the Republic of Ireland.
The family business, a Food NI member, has been creating ice cream since 1911 in what was then the north of Ireland, now Northern Ireland.
The business was formed by the Morelli family which moved to the region from Italy in 1911, making it Northern Ireland’s oldest and best known producer of a wide variety of ice cream flavours.
Many of the enterprising company’s products have won prestigious Ice Cream Alliance industry, UK Great Taste and Blas na hEireann awards.
Morelli’s double vanilla, for example, was named Best in the UK and Ireland in the Ice Cream Awards in 2019.
In addition to its range of quality ice creams, Morelli’s has also produced frozen yoghurt in collaboration with Clandeboye Estate, Northern Ireland’s only manufacturer of yoghurt. It also has a range of dairy free ice cream.
The Regional Golden Fork is sponsored by business development agency Invest Northern Ireland (INI). The award was presented by Michelle Charrington, INI’s business development director in Britain, as part of the Speciality Fine Food Show in Harrogate.
Collecting the award at a gala presentation for food and drink industry leaders including chefs and food writers were Naldo Morelli, the managing director, and Daniella Morelli-Kerr, the marketing director.
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Naldo Morelli, right, and Daniella Morelli-Kerr, second right, pictured with Michelle Charrington, Invest Northern Ireland
