Packaging

Our branded and recyclable gift packaging in the form of beautiful sleeves and cartons brings a sense of our surroundings and makes every one of our award-winning products worthy of being gifted, however big or small.  Our produce is otherwise kept to a minimum to reduce the cost to you and to minimise its environmental impact; simply packaged in smart but simple gold vacuum packs.  The quality of our range of luxury foods is in the eating!

All orders are dispatched in food-safe insulated outer packaging with ice to ensure your order reaches you in perfect condition. Each parcel carries a label indicating that the contents are perishable and the date they should reach a refrigerator, which is a maximum of 48 hours depending on weather conditions.  Please try to reuse the liners and enjoy them and the ice packs for your own picnics or re-purpose them. Click here for ideas!  In the past, we supplied return sacks for the liners but this costs more in carbon than re-use.  Please feel free to return foil liners to us if you have collected enough of them to make it worthwhile sending back.

The packaging of our larger hampers, (gourmet boxes, feasts, and larders) is either reusable or recyclable.

We are always striving to improve our packaging in terms of sustainability and eco-friendliness. Our current offerings reflect what options are available to us as a small company but you can expect to see compostable vacuum bags in the future.

Provenance & Sustainability

We take pride in knowing the exact provenance of everything we buy. We source our fresh foods with great care from quality UK suppliers only and process them at our own smokehouse.

We purchase only premium grade, sustainably farmed salmon from Bakkafrost Scotland. The salmon are fed a diet of high quality fish meal and fish oils derived from wild caught small fish, such as capelin, which they would eat in the wild. They are reared in high currents enabling them to swim and shoal as they would in the wild producing lean, healthy salmon perfect for smoking. Top quality salmon farmed in harmony with the environment helps protect precious and scarce Wild Salmon by reducing demand on wild stocks.

We do not offer wild salmon or eel in our range as these are no longer sustainable unless line caught by individual fishermen.

Our sea fish – haddock, mackerel and kippers – are all North Sea sourced and considered sustainable catches under Marine Conservation (MCS) recommendations.

We use only UK Farm Assured (Red Tractor) chicken and duck. Gressingham Duck is a unique breed of duck, renowned by top chefs for its succulent meat and fantastic gamey flavour. Our cooked ham and dry-cured bacon are produced from outdoor bred pigs. Welsh Dragon Pork Sausage is made by our local butcher in Crickhowell. Welsh Cheddar is sourced locally from the Blaenafon Cheddar Company and our Welsh cheeseboard sourced from all over Wales.