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Pialligo Estate Smokehouse - Australia’s Best Artisan Bacon

21/6/2015

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Charlie Costelloe, GM, Pialligo Estate with his award winning bacon
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

The Bacon Week judges
Judges fleischmeister Horst Schurger, Mitch Edwards and Simon Bestley
Pialligo Estate Smokehouse award winning bacon
The award winning Pialligo Estate short cut bacon
Images appear courtesy of Australian Pork Limited and Pialligo Estate. 

8 Comments
David Scott Allen link
21/6/2015 06:54:40 am

One must love a country with a bacon competition! Bacon is, after all, a food group. :)

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Amanda link
21/6/2015 11:46:57 am

What a great win win for Pialligo Estate, although I do think it's a shame I can't get to try it here in Adelaide.

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Hotly Spiced link
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

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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 . . .

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Anna @ shenANNAgans link
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!

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Tandy | Lavender and Lime link
21/6/2015 08:02:49 pm

Every week should be bacon week in my opinion!

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Christine link
21/6/2015 09:09:50 pm

I too have fallen in love with their bacon, it is so succulent. Each time we go to Canberra airport, I insist on stopping at the Fyshwick Markets to buy some on the way home.

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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!'

A very wise, charming and witty pig can also be found in Beatrix Potter's 'The Tale of Pigling Bland' - good to read with a bacon sandwich if the irony is not too much :):):)

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