Womersley Foods

The Womersley brand was launched by Martin and Aline Parsons from their home, Womersley Hall, in 1979 and has become one of Yorkshire and England’s leading Gourmet Brands.

 

The home grown specialist herbs and fruits are the key ingredients of our now famous fruit and herb vinegars and jellies. Martin attributes his expert knowledge of speciality herbs to his family's background. The Parsons family has lived in Yorkshire for generations and is famous for grand gardens and horticulture at Nymans in Sussex and Birr Castle in Ireland. Martin’s instinctive ability to blend specialist herbs and sumptuous fruits with vinegar and sugar has created for cooks and chefs a product of such versatility that they are rightly famous and have won numerous taste awards.

 

In 2009, Martin and Aline’s son, Rupert, took on the privilege of running Womersley. Since doing so, he has overseen the move to a bespoke new, and larger, premises as well as rebranding the company image to make the look more inclusive. Rupert says that ”having listened to my father’s glowing testimonials of his own creations over many years, I wanted to find another way of showing how delicious our jellies and vinegars are by displaying beautiful artwork on the outside of the bottle.”

 

Whilst the making of fruit vinegars and herb jellies is a fine old British tradition, at Womersley we are proud to say that we have perfected recipes which will delight and surprise you. What we produce is “The Real Thing”: value-added vinegars, if you like…

 

Our jellies are soft-set, jewel-coloured and translucent. The recipe is balanced to allow maximum versatility in the kitchen, whilst ensuring that the true aromas of all the flavours always shine through whether that is geranium, rosemary, apache chilli or lavender. We only use the natural pectin in the apples as our setting agent.

Our multi-award winning vinegars all contain generous quantities of the rich fruits which give them a luxuriously thick finish. We have produced a range of flavours which you can use in the making of or to accompany almost any dish. Please visit the Products page for further information.