Westcombe Finocchiona

Region: Somerset, England

Ingredients: pork, veal, pork fat, salt, fennel, panela sugar, pepper, ripening culture, sodium nitrite, potassium nitrate

Westcombe Farm is an inspiring place where a truly holistic attitude to farming prevails.  Everything feeds into the quality of produce from soil microbial health to pasture quality and then milk and cheese.  The decision to rear veal calves was a natural extension of this as a more honourable way to treat their bull calves than the industry's standard.  These calves live as happily as their milking cows and are reared to 8-12 months old, longer than most rose veal.

In order to make use of their flavoursome meat, farmer Tom Calver and Paul Burton developed a range of charcuterie highlighting their veal and the outdoor reared, high welfare, rare breed pork from Gothelney Farm where Fred Price also farms with the same regenerative ethos to Westcombe.

The Finocchiona is a veal salami using a  mixture of the lean Westcombe Veal and pork fat from the pigs at Gothelney Farm, flavoured with wild fennel seeds from Sicily.  It has a uniquely aromatic flavour complimented by the fennel seeds and savoury depth.

minimum weight 250g