product update
christmas
Festive fare Mummy’s Yummies is adding another original mix to its homebaking range for Christmas 2012. The Christmas biscuit truffle mix will be available in 0.5 litre kilner jars (trade £6.29, RRP £9.99) decorated with seasonal ribbons and is a rich non-bake mix laced with dark chocolate, cranberries, and raisins. www.mummy-yummies.com
Gourmet popcorn maker Joe & Seph’s has launched a mince pie variety (RRP £2.99) containing caramel, brandyinfused fruit and almonds. All of the firm’s popcorn is hand-made, air-popped (as opposed to basted in oil), and flavoured using 100% natural ingredients. It comes in a wide range of flavours, both sweet and savoury, and is available nationwide. www.joeandsephs.co.uk
Opies’ luxury fruits in branded alcohol are well-suited for festive gift giving. The range features both peaches and figs with Courvoisier brandy, stem ginger with Teachers whisky, baby pears with Luxardo amaretto, black cherries in Luxardo kirsch and apricots with Drambuie. All six are produced in Kent and packed in globe jars. www.b-opie.com Previously exclusive to Harrods, Alternative Meats’ three gold star Great Taste Award-winning Welsh Wagyu beef fat (120ml, wholesale £7.50) is now being sold to the wider trade. The firm also offers it as part of a gift set with a Welsh Wagyu roasting joint.
The WI Foods branded range continues to expand apace and it will now be offering several specific seasonal lines including traditional mincemeat (340g), apricots in brandy, peaches in brandy (both 250g) and a brandy and Port Christmas pudding (450g). It has also assembled a number of jute gift bags, offering duos and trios of products.
Pieminister has developed three special festive pies. The Three kings pie (British turkey breast, outdoor reared smoked bacon and a pork & herb stuffing topped with cranberries) Christingle pie (honey roast parsnips & cheddar cheese with chestnuts) and Deer Santa pie (British venison, dry cure bacon, red wine & puy lentils) will all be available from November with an RRP or £2.99.
www.wifoods.co.uk
www.pieminister.co.uk
seasonal gift packs
www.alternativemeats.co.uk
Infusion oils offers gift sets of its infused Cotswold rapeseed oil in wooden boxes (wholesale £9.99) or jute bags (£7.75).
It’s never too early to place your Christmas orders so MICHAEL LANE rounds up some of this year’s gift sets, stockingfillers and yuletide treats
Paxton & Whitfield is now offering a bone handle cheese knife & sharpener set (trade £12.50 excl. VAT/ RRP £25.00). www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk
www.infusionoils.co.uk
Organic chutney and jam producer Huntly Herbs has launched a Three Little Jars gift wrap. Each wrap features three 40ml jars, which can be all the same or any combination from the firm’s range.
Portuguese food specialist Micarmo is importing several products that would work well as foodie gifts or as part of a festive meal. It has fig, almond and fennel cakes (180g) from the Algarve as well as 420g jars of Rocha pears in port (trade £7.99), both of which work well as cheese accompaniments. Its wine jellies (available in Touriga Nacional, Moscatel, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon varieties) cost £4.50 each to the trade. www.micarmo.co.uk
Penzance’s Polgoon Vineyard & Orchard has added to its collection of Aval (Cornish for apple) Methodé Traditionelle sparkling drinks. Aval Royale combines vintage Aval with pure blackcurrant juice to create the Cornish take on Kir Royale. It comes in 75cl bottles (wholesale £7.95). www. polgoonvineyard. vpweb.co.uk
Labour Of Love has three tasting boxes of its preseves, which are all made with berries foraged from local hedgerows. Its Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This (four sweet 120g pots) and Spice Up Your Life (four savoury 120g pots) both have a trade price of £11.
The large Tasting Box (nine sweet and savoury pots) costs £20.50. www.labouroflovepreserves.co.uk
www.huntlyherbs.co.uk
Vol.13 Issue 7 · August 2012
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