GAME, SET AND MATCH

FOOD miles, provenance and quality – they are all concerns expressed by The Duchess of Rutland, who is championing a new food range launched to showcase game from the Belvoir Castle Estate.

This new range of locally reared game is sourced from the rural 15,000 acre Leicestershire estate in the Vale of Belvoir, home to the Duke and Duchess of Rutland.

The Duchess said: “We have an abundance of wonderful game on this estate.

“With the opening of our retail shopping village a few months ago, we had the perfect opportunity to create a farm to fork offer of locally sourced game, a meat that is both rich in flavour and healthy, being high in protein and very low in fat.”

Packs include two choice breast fillets of wood pigeon, pheasant or partridge (£6.50 RRP) and are exclusively available from The Country Victualler, the traditional butchery located in the Engine Yard at Belvoir, the estate’s £2.5 million artisan shopping village.

The game is set to be followed by a range of Belvoir Castle-branded sauces being created with the help of the castle’s own head chef Michael Prescott and two chefs, Jose Souto – one of the leading game chefs in the UK – and Rachel Green, a farmer’s daughter from Lincolnshire and a passionate ambassador of British produce.

Following a tasting day in January, the Duchess will make the final selection of sauces to go on sale.

Seasonal food favourites including game sausages and burgers are also lined up for later in the year.