Charlie Costelloe, General Manager Pialligo Estate
Pialligo Farm Smokehouse has once again taken out top honours at Australian Bacon Week, with the judges naming Pialligo Estate's dry cured and smoked shortcut rashers as Australia’s BEST Artisan Bacon for the second consecutive year.
Being a vintage Canberran and a fan of the range of award winning smoked produce from Pialligo Farm Smokehouse, I must confess to doing a 'fist pump' when I heard this news!
The bacon produced by the Canberra company was described by the judges as 'beautifully marbled, with a nice smoky aroma and a nice balanced taste'. 'We are absolutely honoured and delighted to know that our bacon has been judged as Australia’s Best Artisan Bacon for the second year in a row,’ says Pialligo Estate’s General Manager, Charlie Costelloe. ‘Our dry-cured bacon is produced from Australian pork to an age-old recipe, free from preservatives, colourings or artificial flavours, resulting in unsurpassed quality and flavour of award-winning standard.' Pialligo Estate bacon is available in stores across the ACT, as well as in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Bacon Week celebrates 100% Australian bacon and draws attention to the competition local bacon faces from imported product. As part of the celebrations, Australia’s bacon was put to the test in the Australian Bacon Awards. Three specialist judges independently scrutinised the entries for appearance, flavour and other characteristics. Judges fleischmeister Horst Schurger, who has a Masters degree in butchering and smallgoods; experienced judge and chef, Simon Bestley; and Australian Pork’s Mitch Edwards; assessed 135 entries over two days. And the winners are… Australia’s BEST Artisan Bacon Pialligo Estate Smokehouse dry cured and smoked shortcut bacon, Pialligo Estate, ACT Australia’s Best Nationally Available Bacon Bertocchi Brothers Long Rindless Hickory Smoked Bacon, Bertocchi Smallgoods Best full rasher bacon: Southlands Quality Meat, Mawson, Canberra Runners up: Country Meats, Lismore, NSW; Circle T Meats, Raceview, Queensland Best shortcut bacon: Pialligo Estate, Canberra Runners up: Campbell's Superior Meats, West Pymble, NSW; Meat on Melville, Numurkah, Victoria Bacon Week runs until 27 June, with more information, participating restaurants and recipes available from www.pork.com.au 
Judges fleischmeister Horst Schurger, Mitch Edwards and Simon Bestley
The award winning Pialligo Estate short cut bacon
Images appear courtesy of Australian Pork Limited and Pialligo Estate.
8 Comments
21/6/2015 06:54:40 am
One must love a country with a bacon competition! Bacon is, after all, a food group. :) 21/6/2015 01:24:34 pm
Having been introduced to the bacon by my SIL living in Canberra, that is now the only bacon I buy. We can buy it at Harris Farm and I stock up every week. The company certainly deserves those awards. And how lovely of you to help Maureen by doing a post for her xx
Eha
21/6/2015 01:36:39 pm
Having learned from 'experience' I Googled ere reading all of the blog! Now I may be incorrect but it seems to me that one can buy on line . . . individual prices there and a shopping basket also : shall investigate after work - love that smoked salmon and gravlax are also available and, it seems to me, at a more advantageous price than the Huon one. Thanks for the post . . . lovely beginning to homework!! Thinking of you . . . 21/6/2015 02:58:21 pm
#BOOM Fist bumps, high fives & a cheeky happy dance for the Pialligo Estate team. They really are dominating!
inky boden
22/6/2015 10:01:25 am
Is Pialligo Farm the same as Pialligo Estate Bacon? If so, has the packaging graphic changed. If so, I liked the old packaging with the 'Quentin Blake-ish' piggies who seemed to say 'eat me if you like, but I know where you live!' Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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