@gundowring

For those that use twitter and haven’t followed us yet, you can do so with @gundowring. We tweet about all the things that happen day to day and let our followers know about upcoming events, new flavours and other information that comes our way. We even do the odd competition!

DIAA Victorian and Australian Awards

If we needed a spring in our step coming in to our first Noosa Food and Wine Festival, then picking up a swag of awards at both the state and national levels of the Dairy Industry Association of Australia was sure to make it happen!

In the Victorian Competition we took home 3 gold medals for Raspberry, Ginger and Licorice, with both Ginger and Raspberry taking home the trophy as best in their class.

In good company, Ginger is shining at the awards this year!

We were even more excited when Ginger was announced as the highest scoring exhibit in whole competition, earning it the Orica Chemicals Award for Most Outstanding Show Exhibit, and a very swanky trophy.

Sarah attended the Gala Dinner for the National competition where Ginger’s streak of success continued, winning the Sensient Technologies Australia Award for the Highest Scoring Ice Cream, Hooray!

Sydney Royal Cheese and Dairy Produce Show

Winners are grinners, so the saying goes, and it is all smiles at Gundowring after our Ginger Ice Cream took out Champion ice cream at the recent Sydney Royal Cheese and Dairy Produce Show.

Ginger brings home the goods

It is a competition that has been kind to us over the years, with our Raspberry, Licorice and Fig previous recipients of the Champion trophy. 

A grinning idiot enjoys the spoils

Summer Lovin'

As one can well imagine, summer time is ‘go time’ for ice creameries, and here at Gundowring we certainly have been frantic over the last couple of months. Christmas, New Year and January all came and went in a flash and here we find ourselves in the first days of March.

The ice cream elves are in full cheer before Christmas

Christmas Plum puddings and Brandy Custards were a great hit. We loved hearing the stories from customers at the farmers markets of how the Puddings were brought to the table with a flourish to the oohs and aahs of duly impressed relatives.

Our Brandy Custard ice cream went well with a traditional Plum Pudding

While on the topic of Farmer’s Markets, weekend weather has not been kind to us. Summer this year was a fickle thing, being either stinking hot or raining cats and dogs. We have enjoyed it nonetheless and met many more of our twitter friends face to face as well as catching up with old regulars, and talked all topics from truffles to trampolines.

Brenda and Stephen making the best of a bad situation!

Truffle tinkering is another thing that has been keeping us busy. We have had our hands dirty with many interesting ingredients, trying to get the perfect flavour from each of them. Some of the things we have putting our minds to are the aforementioned truffle, pumpkin seed oil, fresh mint, fresh basil, banana, and mustard for different chefs and ice cream fiends around the country.

Testing new flavours is one of the perks of the job. Here Iris is trialling a Roasted Banana flavour...YUM!

The cows have been ‘dried off’, getting them ready for calving, so we should expect to be surrounded by bouncing baby calves as soon as the first week of April. We have also taken delivery of a number of large water tanks, just in time to take advantage of the recent rains. Normally the Kiewa Valley is straw brown as the summer heat bakes the pastures; however the welcome rain has kept the valley green through most of the summer. 

A rare day of dry grass, yet calf 4314 is still looking upbeat!