This Easter feast on the very best produce from Wales the True Taste Award-winners. Perfect your Easter lunch with the finest organic Welsh lamb, indulge in quality handmade chocolate and finish off a lazy afternoon with traditional Welsh cakes.
Rhug Estate
Roast with vegetables and rosemary, a leg of lamb is just the thing for a mouth-watering Easter Sunday lunch. The Rhug Estate’s succulent organic lamb is traditionally butchered, can be ordered online and is then delivered straight to your door.
Bred on the Rhug Estate situated in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales the organic lamb is the proud recipient of some of the most prestigious awards including True Taste Organic Product of the year. The farm started its organic conversion in 1998 and is now fully certified by the Soil Association. Rhug Farm has been producing the finest quality award-winning organic meat for the last seven years in a sustainable and ethical way.
RRP: Prices start from £12.50 per kg for the Welsh leg of lamb
Stockists: Online at www.rhug.co.uk and from a range of retails outlets nationwide
Maddocks Welsh Cakes
Created from a special Gower recipe the traditional Welsh Cakes are ideal for a Sunday afternoon tea-time treat. The small fruit filled flat spicy cakes are made from vine fruits like tangy currants and plump sultanas. A box of 20 cakes is the perfect size to fit through the letterbox; ideal as a present with a difference this Easter.
Maddocks Cakes from Wales is a cottage industry owned and run from home by husband and wife team Anthony and Pat Maddocks in South West Wales. They have a long, proud tradition of cooking authentic Welsh food derived from their up-bringing on the Gower Peninsula, and they carry on these traditions with their handed-down Welsh cake recipes, always using the finest locally sourced ingredients.
RRP: £11.99 (20 Cakes) with free delivery within the UK
Stockists: Online at www.cakesfromwales.com
Pemberton’s Victorian Chocolates
Easter wouldn’t be Easter without plenty of chocolate to devour. Pemberton’s Victorian Chocolates has a range of delicious Easter eggs including the decadent Luxury Triple Chocolate Easter Egg and the indulgent Fruit and Nut Easter Egg. Handmade and hand-packaged the Easter collection uses the finest ingredients and a recipe that has been passed down over the generations.
Too tasty to be hidden in the traditional Easter egg hunt, Pemberton’s Easter eggs make a very special gift or an extra luxurious treat for yourself.
RRP: From £4.75 for 175g Chocolate Easter Egg, available in milk, dark and white chocolate
Stockists: Online at www.welshchocolatefarm.com and from the Welsh Chocolate farm shop
All the above Welsh producers have won accolades at the Wales The True Taste Food & Drink Awards, which were launched in 2002 as part of the Welsh Assembly Government's commitment to developing the food and drink sector and to building awareness of the Welsh food brand 'Wales the True Taste'. Year-on-year the True Taste Awards grow in strength and popularity and are regarded as the 'Oscars' of the Welsh food industry.
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For more information please contact the Welsh Assembly Government’s Food Promotion PR Manager Esther Eckley on 03000 622174 or esther.eckley@wales.gsi.gov.uk
For samples or images please contact the True Taste team Holly Blake, Caroline Reincke, Georgie Hope and Sally Alexander at Focus PR by email: truetasteofwales@focuspr.co.uk, or on Tel: 020 7845 6600