Hawke's Bay's Rush Munro's ice cream has been named as the best in the country, taking out a supreme award for its maple walnut flavour at the National Ice Cream Awards.
The 18th National Ice Cream Awards were held last Thursday where a team of lab-coat-wearing frozen-dairy experts declared Rush Munro's Maple Walnut ice cream as the best for a boutique manufacturer, while New Zealand Natural's English Toffee won the supreme award for large manufacturers.
Rush Munro's owner Simone Forde was thrilled to have won the award, the first ever supreme award for the premium dessert manufacturer.
"We've won gold medals before for this flavour, for several years, but this is the first time ever we have won a supreme award for any of our ice cream," she said.
"It's my favourite flavour, I absolutely love it.