Cultured butter.

Butter’s good. But cultured butter, churned with aged cream for more tang and flavour, is even better. Here are our favourites.

1 KING VALLEY DAIRY

This slightly acidic butter is as wonderful spread on baguette as it is for making pastry. Available salted and unsalted. $8.50 for 250gm. kingvalleydairy.com.au

2 MEANDER VALLEY DAIRY

Sydney’s Bennelong and The Boathouse on Blackwattle Bay are fans of Meander Valley’s mild Tasmanian butter. Available salted and unsalted. $7.99 for 250gm. meandervalleydairy.com.au

3 PEPE SAYA

Pepe Saya is Australia’s king of cultured butter for a reason: it’s one of the richest on the market. $8.50 for 225gm. pepesaya.com.au

4 SAINT DAVID DAIRY

Melbourne’s only inner-city micro-dairy makes this rich butter with slow-fermented fresh Gippsland cream. Available salted and unsalted. $6.25 for 190gm. stdavid.com.au

5 LE CONQUÉRANT BEURRE DE BARATTE

Will Studd, GT’s cheese expert, knows his butter, too. This French beurre, churned in an oldfashioned baratte in Normandy, is his favourite. Available lightly salted and unsalted. $4.95 for 125gm. willstudd.com