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Whisky and Venison team up to launch Eat Scottish Venison Day

September 2010

Scottish Venison and Glengoyne have joined together this year to promote Eat Scottish Venison Day (4 September), with Chef Tom Lewis of Monachyle Mhor demonstrating, with two new dishes, how whisky and venison are a perfect partnership.
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4th September to celebrate Venison as latest fashion in food

August 2010

After a successful launch last year, the 4th September will once again commemorate 'Eat Scottish Venison Day', and many UK restaurants and suppliers are marking the occasion with promotions, events, signature dishes, cooking schools and special menus.

Venison is fast becoming the food of the moment, with chefs everywhere extolling the virtues of this tasty, healthy, versatile meat, and thanks to a successful campaign, most quality restaurants now include at least one venison dish on their menus, with television cookery programmes featuring it regularly. Scottish venison is sold throughout the UK and Europe, and the industry, including deer management, is worth £105m to the Scottish economy annually and accounts for over 2500 jobs. The sheer Scottishness of the product, with images of deer roaming the highlands and the spectacle of the Monarch of the Glen, is helping to fly the flag for Scotland, alongside Scotch whisky, Scottish beef and Scottish water.
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World's Largest Venison Haggis coming to Edinburgh

September 2010

Saturday 4th September is the second annual Eat Scottish Venison Day. To mark this event Fletchers of Auchtermuchty, Scotland's longest established deer farm and venison retailer will be creating the largest recorded Venison Haggis.
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Trust celebrates National Venison Day

September 2010

The National Trust for Scotland will mark National Venison Day on Saturday 4 September by serving up locally sourced meat fresh from the organisation's own Mar Lodge Estate near Braemar in Aberdeenshire. Mar Lodge venison will be served at several Trust properties across Scotland on the day. 

Celebrating Venison in the Cairngorms National Park

August 2010

Catering industry professionals are being urged to sign up for a venison extravaganza at Glen Tanar Estate in the Cairngorms National Park on Wednesday 1 September.

The event, which will take place just ahead of Scottish Venison Day, has been organised by the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) in partnership with Glen Tanar Estate and will involve interactive butchery and food demonstrations.
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September Game Dinner

July 2010

As part of its 'Love to Eat 2010' celebration of food and drink in Blairgowrie and East Perthshire, there is to be a Game Dinner on 8th September at the Dalmore Inn & Restaurant in Blairgowrie.

Join food expert Nichola Fletcher and celebrated chef Andrew May and his team, to taste and learn more about game meats, including venison, pigeon, partridge, rabbit, hare and fish.

The 6 course dinner includes drinks and canapes on arrival and tickets are £35 per person. To book, contact the Dalmore Inn & Restaurant, Perth Road, Blairgowrie 01250 871088. For more info about the 'Love to Eat 2010' celebrations and details of other events, visit www.visiteastperthshire.co.uk

Eat Scottish Venison Box

August 2010

Highland Game will be launching a new venison taster box to purchase on their website under the name ‘Eat Scottish Venison Box’. The box will include 1 x Burgers, 1 x Cranberry, 1 x Scottish Slimmer Sausages, 1 x diced, 1 x steaks, 1 x medallions, 1 x grillstreaks, 1 x meatballs and one cookbook. The box will help promote and celebrate Eat Scottish Venison Day.  Also, stv.tv will be giving away one of these boxes as a competition prize.

Great Glen Ltd wins gold stars from the Great Taste Awards

August 2010

Great Glen Ltd, The Old Butchers Shop, Roy Bridge, Fort William has won 4 gold stars from the Great Taste Awards for its wild venison salami and venison chorizo.

Organised by The Guild of Fine Food, the Great Taste Awards is the national, benchmark food awards employing the country’s most rigorous judging system, ensuring the fairest, most accurate and trusted results.

The 2010 GTAs attracted a record number of entries. In total, 6021 food and drink products were blind-tasted, tested and discussed during two months of intense judging by 350 judges, comprising food writers, chefs, deli and farm shop owners, food producers and buyers.

Another award for Rannoch Smokery

July 2010

Rannoch Smokery, Scotland’s leading meat and game smoker, is celebrating another Great Taste Award after winning a prestigious Gold Award for two of its premium products.

Rannoch Smokery’s Roast Smoked Venison won a one-star Gold Award with the judges commenting on the good texture of meat, level of smoking and the enjoyable nature of the product.  There were six entrants into the smoked game category and Rannoch Smokery’s smoked venison was joint winner. The company’s Pressed Game Terrine also gained a one-star Gold Award in the meat terrine category.

Rannoch Smokery’s tally of Great Taste Awards now comes to 27 in total – a testament to the fine quality of the produce.

Now in their 17th year, The Great Taste Awards are organised by the Guild of Fine Food.

Highland Game Takes Scottish Venison Industry forward

July 2010

Highland Game, Scotland’s leading venison specialist, has purchased the UK’s largest Venison and Game processor business from Rick Bestwick Ltd, based in Chesterfield, securing the long term future for Scottish venison. The takeover will be effective from 1st July 2010.

The takeover will push Highland Game into number one position in the UK, creating wonderful opportunities for venison in Scotland.
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Mitchells & Butler takes Scottish venison seriously

June 2010

Mitchells and Butler's Vintage Inns are being supplied by Yorkshire Game with larder trim Scottish Venison steaks for more than 200 outlets across the UK. Response has been so popular that the initial six month menu period has been extended. Contact Richard Townsend at Yorkshire Game on 01748 810212 or E: r.townsend@yorkshiregame.co.uk

Venison wins food awards, but nothing from subsidies

June 2010 Scotsman - Andrew Arbuckle

AFTER walking off with yet another top food award, John Fletcher of Reediehill Deer Farm, Auchtermuchty, yesterday attacked the Scottish Government for its refusal to give deer farmers the same financial support enjoyed by those in the cattle and sheep sectors.

The latest award saw husband and wife team John and Nichola Fletcher, scoop the top prize as the Best Small Meat Producer in the UK at the prestigious Good Housekeeping Food Awards in London.
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Perfect Venison Pies for every taste bud at Waitrose

May 2010

An award winning pie company from Lanarkshire has won a prestigious contract supplying Scottish branches of Waitrose.  Designed to be a complete meal for one, hand crafted Simple Simon’s Perfect Pies are encased in light puff pastry and made with the finest local ingredients.

Simple Simon’s Honeyed Venison pie won a place in the finals of last year’s Waitrose Made in Britain Awards and is one of four pies now being listed in the retailer’s Scottish branches.   The special pie combines chunks of wild Scottish venison marinated in a selection of herbs, casseroled and finished with heather honey. Chef Bernard Alessi drew on his Maltese origins by adding orange to the mix, bringing out the flavour of all the ingredients.

Highland venison rustled up by award winning Indian chef

April 2010 - Kidderminster Shuttle

With an executive chef consistantly winning accolades, awards and plaudits, Saffron in Oldbury is a step up from a normal ‘curry house’ in more ways than one.
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Michelin Chefs Cook at Braehead Cook School

Lorraine Howard, Irvine Herald, 12 February 2010

Simone Zanoni runs Gordon Ramsay’s French restaurant, Le Trianon, in the Palace of Versailles.

But this Italian chef has very strong links with Scotland and twice a week is sent deer and game from Ayrshire’s Braehead Foods.

And Simone, who arrived in Britain in 1996 unable to speak any English, but quickly worked his way up in the kitchen under the eye of his mentor, Gordon Ramsay, was stunned that venison wasn’t as well eaten in this part of the world. “I cannot believe that we eat more venison in Paris than is eaten by Scottish people,” said Simone. “It’s right on your doorstep and I rely on two deliveries a week from here to make sure we have enough in the restaurant. To me, it’s a beautiful meat and I adore it.”
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Michelin Chefs Cook at Braehead Cook School

Lorraine Howard, Irvine Herald, 12 February 2010

Simone Zanoni runs Gordon Ramsay’s French restaurant, Le Trianon, in the
Palace of Versailles.
But this Italian chef has very strong links with Scotland and twice a
week is sent deer and game from Ayrshire’s Braehead Foods.

And Simone, who arrived in Britain in 1996 unable to speak any English
but quickly worked his way up in the kitchen under the eye of his
mentor, Gordon Ramsay, was stunned that venison wasn’t as well eaten in
this part of the world.
“I cannot believe that we eat more venison in Paris than is eaten by
Scottish people,” said Simone.
“It’s right on your doorstep and I rely on two deliveries a week from
here to make sure we have enough in the restaurant. To me, it’s a
beautiful meat and I adore it.”

Read more:
http://www.irvineherald.co.uk/ayrshire-news/local-news-ayrshire/local-news-irvine/2010/02/12/michelin-chefs-cook-at-braehead-cook-school-75485-25799743/

Award winning Scottish Venison returns to Costco stores

January 2010

Highland Game’s Scottish venison fillet is once again available for purchase from Costco outlets.
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Highland Game secures major contract with London pub chain

November 2009

The award-winning venison specialist has secured a year’s contract to supply Scottish wild venison to the Young’s pub group in London.
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Tesco loses calories over healthy burgers

October 2009

Tesco takes delivery of Scottish Slimmers Wildly Healthy Venison Sausages across 91 stores in Scotland.
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Highland Game secures product launch with Morrisons

September 2009

A Scottish business has proved that its products hold appeal beyond the individual shopper having secured the launch of its new venison grill steaks across Morrisons stores this week.
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Scottish Venison day launched in London and Perthshire

September 2009

Friday 4 September marked the launch of Scottish Venison Day, a date that producers of both Scottish wild and farmed venison will be working hard to embed in the UK culinary calendar. The launch took place at The Ivy in London and Blair Castle in Scotland
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Fletchers of Auchtermuchty are launching Venison Sausages with Chocolate and Chilli.

September 2009

They will be introduced to coincide with Eat Scottish Venison Day on 4th September and the start of Scottish Food Fortnight. Nichola Fletcher and her butcher Graeme Braid have created 10 flavours of venison sausages including Venison Sausages with Whisky and Venison and Wild Boar Sausages
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It's lean, tasty and far from dear - venison gets its day

September 2009
The Scotsman - Jenny Fyall
It was once a delicacy dished up only to aristocracy, but now a national day is to be devoted to Scottish venison in a drive to get everyone to give it a taste.Today is the first Scottish Venison Day an annual event that will aim to put the meat firmly on the culinary map.
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Could venison ranches be the future?

September 2009
The Herald - Rebecca McQuillan
It's healthy, sustainable, organic and even eagle-friendly no wonder Scottish venison is selling out as quickly as estates can produce it. If demand continues to grow, we could in future see deer ranches on land previously used for sheep. As venison producers come together today to promote the first ever Eat Scottish Venison Day, the Deer Commission Scotland reports that demand for the lean meat in
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Venison, Meat of the Future

August 2009
The Scottish Farmer
Venison producers have been given a major boost following a report which shows that the product they produce not only contains significantly less fat than other red meats but is also highly rated by consumers for taste....
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Scottish Venison Day - 4th September - put it in the diary now

August 2009
Food & Drink Innovation Network
We are told that the first Eat Scottish Venison Day will take place on Friday 4th September 2009, and restaurants and retail outlets...
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Venison producers team up to launch national awareness scheme

July 2009
Cost Sector Catering
The Scottish Venison Working Group is launching an awareness campaign starting this September to raise the profile of Scottish Venison across the UK
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Scottish Smoked Wild Venison

July 2009
Waitrose Magazine Online Kevin Gould
Clad in tweed jacket and natty deerstalker hat, self-styled metropolitan nancy boy Kevin Gould takes the high road to get the lowdown on superior smoked venison.
Not that hot, today, observes Leo Barclay, inviting me to prise my frozen digits from the metal
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Eat Scottish campaigners target venison down under

July 2009
Scotsman - Rosemary Gallagher
It is supposed to be the monarch of the Scottish glens but up to a third of venison eaten in Scotland is imported from New Zealand.
With demand increasing, particularly as consumers become more aware of its health benefits
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Fresh bid to keep Scots venison local

July 2009
Herald
Up to one third of the venison in Scottish restaurants and supermarkets comes from New Zealand. Processors, supermarkets and restaurants are unable to meet year-round demand by buying only Scottish meat.
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Inaugural Scottish Venison Day

June 2009
Shooting Times - Selena Masson
Campaign launched to promote Scottish venison to consumers
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September launch for national venison day

June 2009
Various game organisations have come together to launch a national awareness campaign to encourage consumers to eat Scottish venison.
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