There's a jar in our pantry we've quietly loved for years. Now the rest of the country knows about it too.
Clif Family's Organic Savory Onion Jam has been named a winner in the 2026 Good Food Awards, one of the most respected honors in craft food. The Good Food Awards, presented by the Specialty Food Association, recognize products with outstanding taste, quality, and responsible sourcing. This year, 242 products made the cut from more than 1,200 entries, chosen through a blind tasting by expert judges.
If you're the kind of person who keeps a good bottle open for a Tuesday and thinks a great cheese board counts as dinner, this one's for you. Here's what earned it the award, and the best ways to put it to work.
How we make our organic savory onion jam
Great food doesn't start in the kitchen. It starts in the dirt.
The onions in this jam are grown by our farm team on our certified organic Napa Valley farm. From there, they go to our Preserve Maker, Dulce Noonan, who caramelizes them low and slow for more than three hours with herbs grown on the same farm. No shortcuts, no rushing. Just time and attention, in small batches.
“We start with ingredients that are grown with care, then give them the time and attention they deserve in the kitchen. The organic savory onion jam is simple, but every batch reflects a tremendous amount of work from our farm and culinary teams.”
The result is a jam that threads the needle between savory and sweet. Deep, rich, a little jammy, never cloying. It's the kind of thing you open "just to taste" and somehow finish half the jar.
How to use organic savory onion jam
On a cheese and charcuterie board.
Start here. A spoonful of savory onion jam next to a wedge of aged cheddar or a creamy brie is the move. The caramelized sweetness cuts through rich, salty cheese and ties the whole board together. Add some cured meats, a handful of nuts, a glass of Cabernet, and you've built a spread that looks like you tried a lot harder than you did.
On a big, juicy burger.
This might be our not-so-secret favorite. Swap your usual ketchup for a generous smear of savory onion jam and it changes the whole bite. You get all that deep, caramelized-onion flavor without caramelizing onions yourself. Melty cheese, a toasted bun, that jam. Grill season just got better.
Blended into our Savory Onion Dip.
Want to turn the jam into the star of your next gathering? Our Savory Onion Dip recipe folds it into a creamy base of cream cheese, sour cream, and chives. It's the grown-up version of the onion dip you grew up on, and it pairs beautifully with our Unoaked Chardonnay.
In everyday cooking.
Stir it into a grilled cheese, spoon it over roasted chicken, tuck it into a flatbread, or melt a little onto a warm round of brie. Once you have a jar open, you'll find uses everywhere.
Where to find our organic savory onion jam
Awards are nice. But the best part is what's in the jar.
You can shop Organic Savory Onion Jam online and have it shipped to your door. Or come taste it in person: visitors to Clif Family's St. Helena tasting room at 709 Main St. will find it in our seasonal food offerings and wine pairings built around what's growing on the farm.
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