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Best New Product award winners for 2010.
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| The Best New Product overall award went to the Mexican Chiapas Coffee-Infused Chocolate produced by Spice Rack Chocolates in Fredericksburg. Owners Mary and Paul Schellhammer specialize in herb- and spice-infused chocolates. Their goal is to change the way the world eats chocolate. They hand mold and hand paint 24 different flavor combinations of specialty chocolates. | Rick Wasmund, left, the owner and master distiller of Copper Fox Distillery in Sperryville, took home the Best New Beverage honor. His product, Wasmund’s Single Malt Spirit Barrel Kit, enables consumers to age their own spirits at home with the mini barrel included with the kit. |
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The Best New Food award winners were Bill and Laurel Savage of Pungo Creek Mills, Painter, Virginia, for their Indian Cornmeal. They are shown with Todd Haymore, Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, far left, who presented the awards. The Savages began making and selling their Indian Cornmeal in 2009 from a Native American variety of corn. They grow, harvest and stone grind heirloom Indian corn using vintage equipment. |
Exhibiting at the Expo were producers of every kind of food item, from seafood to dairy products, sauces and marinades to desserts and confections. |
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Best New Product award winners through the years.
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| 2008: Jim Appleby of Ewing, Virginia won the overall Best New Product award for the hot version of his Road Kill B-B-Q Sauce; Mary Schellhammer of Spice Rack Chocolates in Fredericksburg tied for the Best New Food Product award with her grapefruit/lavender flavored chocolates; Duane Thompson of Sabrosa Foods, Inc. of Hampton, Virginia, tied for Best New Food Product with his Sabrosa Medium Roasted Bell Pepper Gourmet Salsa; and Mary Clark of BIOFREE-USA Corp in Glen Allen, Virginia won the Best New Beverage Product with FIZZA Sparkling Dairy Beverage. | 2004: CEO William Servais of The Original Velatis caramel company honored for best new food. |
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| 2002: Maggi Castelloe of Hunt Country Foods honored with Best New Product award for Chocolate Jazz! | 2000: Virginia Gentleman Bourbon Chipotle Hot Sauce named Best New Product. |