A GROUP of Scotch Butcher Club members are celebrating after scooping a raft of awards at the recent 2017 Smithfield Awards, an annual national product evaluation showcase contested by Q Guild butchers nationwide.
Davidsons Specialist Butchers, based in Inverurie, lifted two diamond awards and seven gold awards with Falkirk-based Patricks of Camelon clinching the burger class diamond award for its lamb and mint burger as well as picking up eight other gold awards.
Buckwells of Southsea clinched a best in class diamond award in the speciality sausage category with its ‘winter glow sausage’ and also came away with another eight awards.
A special award for the best Scotch Beef product, sponsored by the Scotch Butchers Club run by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), was won by Surrey-based butcher, James of Shepperton, with the ‘steak burgundy’. The firm also notched up nine golds awards.
John Lawson Butchers in Uphall picked up the special award for the best Scotch Lamb product, also sponsored by the Scotch Butchers Club run by QMS, with its gold award-winning ‘herb marinated rack of lamb’, a kitchen-ready product.