Double Gold & World’s Best Marmalade for Artisan Kitchen.
Double Gold at the World Marmalade Awards 2016
The Artisan Kitchen’s Seville Orange Marmalade Italian Orange Bitters traces its story back to a Double Gold win and a world’s best marmalade title.
The Artisan Kitchen reached an extraordinary milestone at the World’s Original Marmalade Awards 2016. From our small Gloucester kitchen, we won a remarkable collection of marmalade awards. This included Double Gold for the recipe now known as Seville Orange Marmalade Italian Orange Bitters.
The marmalade was originally entered under its 2016 competition name. It has since been renamed for sale as
Seville Orange Marmalade Italian Orange Bitters. The recipe brings together fine-cut Seville oranges, pure cane sugar and a bright Italian orange bitters note.
The result is a marmalade with citrus depth, aromatic lift and a beautifully balanced finish. Each batch is prepared slowly. This gives the fruit, peel and aperitif-style notes time to settle into a generous citrus preserve.
Judges awarded the marmalade Double Gold. The award placed it among the finest marmalades in the world that year.
Shortly afterwards, Fortnum & Mason began stocking the preserve in their famous Piccadilly food halls. For a small independent producer, it was an unforgettable kitchen-table-to-world-stage moment.
Quick answer
In 2016, The Artisan Kitchen won Double Gold at the World’s Original Marmalade Awards. The award was given to the recipe now known as Seville Orange Marmalade Italian Orange Bitters. The win helped establish Sarah Churchill’s Gloucester kitchen as one of the UK’s most recognised small-batch marmalade makers.
From Double Gold winner to today’s marmalade collection
The Double Gold-winning recipe sits at the heart of The Artisan Kitchen’s citrus story. It showed what can happen when Seville orange marmalade is made with a chef’s eye. Balance, aroma and detail all matter.
Today, that same spirit continues in our
Seville Orange Marmalade Italian Orange Bitters. It is a bold citrus marmalade with a grown-up Italian bitters note.
You can also explore our classic
Seville Orange Marmalade. Browse our full
handcrafted marmalade collection, or read more about the citrus season in
Seville Orange Season: From Orchard to World’s Best Marmalade.
A remarkable collection of marmalade awards
Alongside the Double Gold award, the judging panel recognised a wide range of Artisan Kitchen marmalades. Awards included Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.
Gold medals went to marmalades including Seville Orange Cacao Marmalade and West Country Cider Sweet Orange Marmalade. Seville Orange Limoncello Marmalade and Sweet Orange Espresso Marmalade also received Gold.
Several creative recipes received Silver recognition. These included Seville Orange Moonshine Marmalade, Sweet Orange Sea Buckthorn Marmalade and Sweet Orange Vintage Gold Champagne Marmalade.
Further awards celebrated imaginative flavour combinations. These included Sweet Orange Lemongrass Marmalade, Seville Orange Pink Peppercorn Marmalade and Leafy Orange Grappa Marmalade.
Together, these results reflected the creativity of The Artisan Kitchen’s marmalade range. They also showed the consistent quality of our small-batch citrus preserves.
To see more of our award history, visit
The Artisan Kitchen Awards page.
Why the World Marmalade Awards matter
The World’s Original Marmalade Awards were created to celebrate marmalade making. They champion the craft and bring together makers from around the world.
For marmalade producers, the awards are especially meaningful. They focus on the jar itself: flavour, peel, set, aroma and balance.
These are the details that separate a good marmalade from a truly memorable one. The competition is closely associated with Dalemain Mansion in Cumbria.
It has become one of the best-known celebrations of marmalade in the world. You can learn more from the official
World’s Original Marmalade Awards website.
What makes a world-class marmalade?
A world-class marmalade needs more than good fruit. It needs balance, texture, clarity and patience.
The peel should have presence without dominating the jar. The set should be soft enough to spread, but structured enough to hold.
The citrus should feel bright, generous and complete. At The Artisan Kitchen, marmalade begins with carefully sourced fruit.
Each recipe develops slowly through small-batch cooking. This helps the finished marmalade hold onto the character of the season.
For more marmalade expertise, read
What Is Marmalade?,
The History of Marmalade and
The Best Marmalade in the UK: A Chef’s Guide.
Why marmalade still matters
Marmalade is one of Britain’s most distinctive preserves. It carries history, craft and citrus seasonality in a single jar.
At its best, it feels bright, aromatic and deeply satisfying. For Sarah Churchill, chef and founder of The Artisan Kitchen, marmalade has always been about precision and imagination.
The Double Gold win in 2016 remains an important part of that story. Explore our
Seville Orange Marmalade, browse the full
marmalade collection, or visit the
Artisan Kitchen online shop.
For more citrus stories, marmalade guides and preserve-making insight, browse the
All About Marmalade journal archive.
Written by Sarah Churchill, chef and founder of The Artisan Kitchen.
