Shirgar Welsh Salted Butter is one of Carmarthenshire’s winners where yellow turns to gold.
In a year of Welsh success at the Rio Olympics and Paralympics in the form of Jade Jones, Jazz Carlin, Aled Sion Davies and the like, Carmarthenshire has its very own Gold Medal winner. The surroundings however were the green fields of Cheshire and not Coca cabana Beach as this particular superstar is not an athlete, it is an award winning butter!
Shirgar Welsh Salted Butter has recently won the Gold Medal at the International Cheese Awards at the world famous Nantwich Show, where it was crowned Champion Butter and winner of the Isigny Sainte Mere Trophy.
Shirgar Welsh Butter is a famous Welsh Butter Brand that was a familiar sight in butter dishes across Wales for many years. That is of course until production was controversially moved across the border into England following the closure of the old Whitland Creamery and the brand eventually disappeared from the dairy aisle.
Now Shirgar Welsh Butter is back home in Wales, being freshly churned and packed in its home county of Carmarthenshire by Gower View Foods Ltd at Cross Hands Food Park.
Managing Director Jon Lewis said:
“We are delighted with the award as the Nantwich Show is internationally recognised as a showcase for the very best of dairy produce. To have beaten off competition from twenty six other butters from across the UK is a tremendous achievement.”
Shirgar Welsh Butter’s Gold Medal win has proved to have been no fluke with further success in the shape of Silver and Bronze Medals for its Salted and Unsalted Butters at the Royal Welsh Show and a pair of Bronze Medals at the Frome Cheese Show, Shepton Mallet. Both the Salted and Unsalted Butters were also awarded two stars at the 2016 Great Taste Awards.
NFU Cymru are currently running a month long #Buy5 Welsh Produce campaign to #BackWelshFarming, so the award winning Shirgar Welsh Butter, churned in Carmarthenshire, should once again be a familiar sight in Welsh shopping baskets.
