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We've recently launched our new wine range, and we're so pleased to be able to offer a range of top quality wines to buy online to complement your choice of meats.
From red to white, still and sparkling, we have selected a range to cover all tastes and occassions.
Being on Smithfield Market we always like to support local business, and we really wanted to have a quality English wine on our wine list. We believe we've got one of the best, as we are now stocking wines from Kent winemaker Chapel Down.
Chapel Down source the majority of their grapes from their 100 acres of vineyards in Kent, but also from other estates in Essex, Surrey and Hampshire.
Far from the very low-grade English wines of days past, Chapel Down's offerings are very highly regarded across the hospitality industry. In fact, as well as supplying the restaurants of celebrity chefs including Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, Chapel Down are the official wine of the National Opera House. Not bad for an English wine!
We're stocking a core range of Chapel Down wines, and after we'd tasted a few of them - it's a hard job! - we decided we absolutely had to have their Vintage Reserve Brut amongst them. As close to a Champagne as English wine gets, the Brut is made with a mix of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Meunier grapes, and has a very subtle citrus aroma. It's won numerous international wine awards and received top reviews from wine journalists. We can whole-heartedly recommend this as a quality sparkling wine. If you have doubts about English wine - try this and prepare to have your mind changed!
From Chapel Down we also have the Rosé Brut - a very pale, sparkling rosé, made from Pinot Noir; and Flint Dry - a very dry white wine which is best described as an English version of Sauvignon Blanc or Pinot Grigio. Both are delicious and very drinkable!
When we mentioned to a few of our customers we were going to be selling wine, we asked them what they would be interested in buying. The resounding answer was - Malbec. A very popular red wine, Malbec hails from Argentina and is a very hearty, well-rounded red which is finished in oak, and is incredibly well-paired with beef.
We'd heard of the winemaker Beefsteak Club from having tried it in restaurants ourselves, and we really wanted to stock it for our customers. We are really happy to now be selling their Meaty Malbec, and also the higher grade Reserve Malbec. Both are top quality red wines made in the Mendoza region of Argentina. The Reserve is aged for longer which gives it a richer flavour and makes it slightly smoother. If you're looking for a wine to drink with any of our steaks - you won't be disappointed with either of our Malbecs.
And finally: we are famous for our range of Australian beef - particularly the Black Angus - so we just had to have an Australian wine on offer. Again, we tried some of Australia's finest, but we settled on Little Rascal, from Southern Australia. Named after the winemaker's dog, Little Rascal produce quality, affordable wines, and we particularly liked their Chardonnay and Shiraz. Both are nicely balanced, very versatile wines and are a great choice.
Now it's just the difficult choice of which wine to choose! There's a really helpful article here on wine and food pairings which we found interesting.
For more information please see:
Wine
Chapel Down Wines
Malbec Wines
Burns Night is celebrated on the 25th January each year, on the birthday of Robert Burns, the 18th century Scottish poet who wrote so passionately about his homeland.
Rabbie Burns (as he’s affectionately known) wrote hundreds of poems, mostly written down as he would have spoken in his Ayrshire dialect – meaning they can be difficult to read.
His best known work is probably Auld Lang Syne, which is traditionally sung on New Year’s Eve to say farewell to the passing year and pledge to remember times gone by.
However, Burns also wrote extensively about his love of Scotland, and it is for this that he is remembered. Robert Burns was voted the Greatest ever Scot by the Scottish public, and this really shows how well regarded he is even now.
Burns Night is more widely celebrated than the official Scottish national day of St Andrew’s Day, and there are many Burns Clubs and Associations across the UK who take the opportunity on 25th January to celebrate Burns and Scotland.
A traditional Burns Night haggis supper starts with the presentation of the haggis – the cooked haggis is led into the room by a piper, the Burns poem ‘Address to a Haggis’ is read, and then the haggis is cut open. Haggis is usually served with mashed turnips and potatoes (“neeps and tatties”) and accompanied by Scotch whisky.
If you’re looking for a good quality Burns Night haggis – or for any time of year – Macsween are very hard to beat. A family company from Edinburgh, Macsween were established in 1953 and are now widely regarded as one of the best brands of haggis in the world.
Macsween make their haggis traditionally, and it comes in various sizes from 1lb (454g) to serve 2-3 people, up to the mighty Ceremonial haggis which weighs in at 16lb (3.6kg) and will serve 16 people.
They also do a completely vegan haggis filled with oats, lentils, pulses and vegetables which not only stops the vegetarians feeling left out on Burns Night, it can also be used as a delicious base for stuffing chicken or peppers.
In fact there’s loads you can do with haggis – take a look at some of Macsween’s recipe suggestions here.
You can rely on Keevils to get your Burns Night Haggis delivered to you in time for the big day. Whether you need the haggis for a large Burns supper or it’s just for yourself as part of your larger order, we deliver Tuesday to Friday, all over the UK.
As Burns Night is on a Monday this year we recommend booking your delivery for Friday 22nd January so you have it in time.
For more information please see:
Macsween Haggis
Ceremonial Haggis
Vegetarian Haggis
The festive season is nearly upon us, and whatever your plans are, we’re sure they’ll revolve around food of some sort. Our Christmas meat deliveries are a brilliant option to ensure you receive the best quality meat available, brought to your door.
If you’re cooking a traditional Christmas turkey we have the best you can buy – English free range Bronze Turkey from farms in Surrey and Norfolk. The difference between white and bronze turkeys is that bronze turkeys are known for keeping moist when cooked, which can help to avoid the dreaded dry turkey on Christmas Day! When choosing what size turkey to buy, allow 500g of turkey per person, which will leave plenty for dinner and cold cuts on Boxing Day.
If you’d rather have a roast goose, we have free range English geese, from farms in East Anglia. Geese have more bones than turkeys, and we recommend allowing 1kg of the whole bird weight per person to allow for the weight of the bones. Goose is also quite fatty, so cook it on a rack over a roasting tin, and save the fat which drips out to cook your roast potatoes. It’s used by professional chefs as it gives the potatoes a delicious, savoury golden crust.
Our freerange capons are always incredibly popular, and as a good value traditional Christmas meat they really can’t be beaten. A capon is a castrated cockerel, and their meat is renowned for being sweeter, more tender and moister than a standard cockerel or chicken. The act of caponisation is illegal in the UK, and our free range capons are bred especially for us in France. As they are just for Christmas we have quite limited numbers of them and usually sell out by mid-December. To ensure that their expiry dates will last until Boxing Day, we receive delivery of them at the very last opportunity, so capons are only available for deliveries on 22nd or 23rd December.
We have a wide choice of other meats as well – if you fancy Christmas Beef, Pork or Lamb, we supply it all, delivered fresh from Smithfield Market to your door.
The last Christmas meat deliveries will be made on 23rd December – however we are already full for orders that day. We’re still taking bookings for delivery on 22nd, and we need your order by Sunday 20th. However we have a limited number of delivery slots which may fill up sooner – so if you want that Christmas meat delivery, don’t delay, get your order placed as soon as you can so you don’t miss out.
For more information please see:
Christmas Meats
Freerange Turkey
Freerange Goose
Freerange Capon
You’d be forgiven if it passed you by, but next Thursday is a big day in the American culinary calendar – Thanksgiving.
The fourth Thursday in November is always used in the US to celebrate and give thanks for a good harvest and to look forward to the year ahead. It stems back from the 17th Century, when the first pilgrim settlers held a great feast to celebrate the success of their crops which had previously failed. It was originally a religious celebration but now the focus tends to be more about giving thanks for friends and family.
Although only really celebrated in the UK by far-roaming Americans, we reckon it could be the next big thing, as let’s face it, we all love an excuse for a big dinner and a party, don’t we?!
Turkey is the most traditional part of a Thanksgiving meal, and is usually served alongside sweet potatoes, stuffing, and a pumpkin pie.
You can find an enormous selection of Thanksgiving turkey and side dish recipes online, and we really like the menu suggestions here courtesy of CountryLiving.com
We can’t help you with the veggies, but we do now have our amazing free range Bronze turkeys in stock, so you can have one heck of a feast, with the very best turkey as your centrepiece!
Reared in Surrey, our turkeys are left to live a completely natural, free range life, and are fed on GM-free locally-grown cereals. Bronze turkeys have black feathers, as opposed to the regular white-feathered variety, and they yield a naturally moister meat.
Our chicks are hatched in June and left to grow naturally to maturity, which allows them a full 5 months to grow to a good, full size turkey for Thanksgiving and then Christmas.
We are still taking orders so you can buy a Thanksgiving turkey online, and as long as you place your order before Midnight on Monday 23rd we can deliver to your door on Wednesday so you have it in time for the big day.
Of course, we are also taking Christmas orders too, and our last deliveries will be 23rd December, but you can also order to collect your turkey from us on December 24th.
For more information please visit:
Bronze Turkey
Christmas Meat Range
3rd February 2016 - Wine & Dine
18th January 2016 - Burns Night Haggis
10th December 2015 - Christmas Meat Delivery
20th November 2015 - Thanksgiving Turkey in the UK
29th October 2015 - Black Pudding - What's in a name?
25th September 2015 - Christmas range now online
12th August 2015 - Let The Games Begin!
31st July 2015 - Free Cumberland Sausages!
19th June 2015 - It's BBQ Season
28th April 2015 - Cooking the Perfect Steak
11th March 2015 - Introducing USDA Beef
4th February 2015 - Tell us what you want
19th November 2014 - Thanksgiving in the UK
8th October 2014 - Christmas Meats now Online
12th August 2014 - Game On! Grouse season has begun
6th June 2014 - Don't Forget Dad on Father's Day
30th May 2014 - True Aussie Beef - with Video
23rd May 2014 - Proud Sponsors of Billy Monger
16th May 2014 - Buying Meat the Keevils way
9th May 2014 - Introducing our Black Angus Beef
