The Outstanding Food Producer Awards 2025 set new benchmarks - a record 405 entries resulted in another record - 313 medals bestowed upon New Zealand’s finest food and non-alcoholic drink producers. Head Judge Lauraine Jacobs led 27 judges who reviewed, sniffed and tasted all the entries.

Over 250 NZ-made products have been recognised for their quality, receiving medals in the 2024 Outstanding Food Producer Awards. The tally was 137 Gold; 76 silver and 48 bronze from a remarkable 355 entries from 122 Kiwi food and drink producers.

Marlborough’s Pinoli Premium Pine Nuts was been recognised for its tiny flavour-filled nuts and its risky journey to become the southern hemisphere’s only pine nut producer when it was named Supreme Champion at the Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards 2023.

Producers spanning Aotearoa from the Chatham Islands to Akaroa and from Southland to Northland were among the Champions in this year’s Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards, with Chatham Island Food Co named Supreme Champion 2022.

Producers from Raglan to Wanaka were among the Champions in the 2021 Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards. Wairarapa’s Homegrown Farm Fresh Meats Homegrown Farm Fresh Meats Mixed Box - Beef & Lamb was awarded Supreme Champion 2021.

Organic farmers, Bostock Brothers, were named Supreme Champion for their Organic Whole Chicken. The judges raved about the product saying, ‘Outstanding flavour, succulent and delicious.’ Twenty-five judges and assessED a record 225 food and drink entries in this year’s Awards.

Wellington’s Wooden Spoon Boutique Freezery has taken top honours in the third annual Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards being named Supreme Champion. Twenty food professionals assessed more than 180 food and drinks and 129 medal winners have been chosen.

The 2018 Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards judged 186 products from 100 producers, assessing aroma, taste, quality, innovation, pack design, sustainability and brand story. Products are judged across four categories; Earth, Paddock, Water and Dairy.

Absolute Angus Porterhouse is the Supreme Winner of the inaugural Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards 2017. Winners were announced after expert food judges tasted more than 150 products from 82 growers, farmers and crafted producers in early March 2017.