Meet Our Welsh Suppliers
The Welsh House team carefully select every Welsh food and drink supplier, to bring you the best Welsh experience.
Meet a selection of our suppliers and their stories.
Cygnet Gin
Welsh Superstar Mezzo Soprano, Katherine Jenkins OBE, founded Cygnet in 2022. When Katherine discovered a little-known Welsh spirit in 2021, she was inspired to create her very own range of premium spirits, hand-crafted in her home country of Wales.
The world-class gin has been developed by the Cygnet team to off er an exceptional ‘Best in Glass’ experience.
In collaboration with her husband Andrew Levitas, the artist and social-impact filmmaker and Eric Villency, who designed products such as Peloton and Rock Star Energy drinks.
Katherine designed the beautiful reusable glass bottles, brand logos and selected the botanicals for the new Cygnet spirit range.
Cygnet 22 is a true disruptor and one of the first gin products designed to be sipped or enjoyed with your favorite mixer.
Pembrokeshire Oil
Park and Landway Farms have been farmed by the Thomas family since 1958. Prior to this the Thomas family farmed a couple of miles away at Guiltar Grove growing early potatoes
during the 30’s and 40’s. Their son Harry joined the farming business in the late nineties. Since then with the
unfortunate demise of the Pembrokeshire early potato industry as it was, the farm has focused on building a successful arable enterprise growing wheat, barley, oilseed rape and beans. A large new grain store was put up in 2011 to improve harvest operations and provide a large grain drying facility for the farms grain.
The next part of the jigsaw sawthe set up of their own crushing plant to produce Pembrokeshire Gold Extra Virgin Cold
Pressed Rapeseed Oil om some of the rapeseed produced. Hopefully this new venture will help secure the family farm for the fourth generation.
Halen Môn Sea Salt
In 1997, a er leaving a saucepan of seawater to boil on their family Aga in as the salt crystals started to form, founders Alison and David knew they’d struck culinary gold. They started
supplying Halen Môn Sea Salt to a local butchers in Menai Bridge on the Isle of Anglesey. Today, their Welsh sea salt is enjoyed around the world by chefs, food lovers and even
former US President Barack Obama. It has been served at the London 2012 Olympics, political summits and royal weddings. Thousands of customers agree it is the best salt for cooking.
Their sea salt can be found in more than 22 countries across the globe as well as on the tables of some of the world’s top restaurants, more importantly it’s still for sale at the same
local butchers where it all started.
Mario's Icecream
Inspired in Italy and made in Wales. Mario Dallavalle is a third generation ice cream maker who has combined his Italian heritage with the fi nest Welsh ingredients to produce
luxuriously indulgent dairy ice cream. With over forty years experience in traditional ice cream making techniques, Mario
ensures that all his milk and double cream is sourced om the lushest Welsh pastures.
One of the secrets behind his multi award winning luxury ice cream is the best quality milk and cream from local family farms… not to mention a little Italian passion thrown
in for good measure. Their method of ageing overnight results in a subtle texture and unsurpassed flavour
hence the multiple awards won.
Welsh Brew Tea
It all started back in 1990 om humble beginnings, when founder Alan Wenden saw a need to create a tea which would compliment Wales’ wonderful water! His meticulous
work & dedication resulted in the creation of our original everyday tea – a blend of quality Indian & African teas… and TA-DA… Welsh Brew Tea was born!
For the last thirty years, Alan, James & Sarah have worked on establishing a tea as an iconic Welsh brand, creating a unique blend of African and Indian teas, specifically
blended to complement our wonderful Welsh water. And their story continues for onesimple reason – those who try Welsh Brew, keep buying it.
Shirgar Butter
From its origins in West Wales dating back as far as 1890 Shirgar has long since been recognised as an iconic Welsh butter brand and a fi rm favourite with many. Still traditionally made in Carmarthenshire to the traditional values and quality that the
brand has always believed in.
Made to a traditional recipe its distinctive flavour truly sets this apart from its rivals making this a leading premium butter brand in the market and perefect for cooking both
savory and sweet dishes.
Celtic Pride
The history of the brand dates to 2003 and was born from consumer demand for consistently high quality Welsh beef that adhered to the highest welfare standards.
The partnership is successful in meeting these aims and has grown to be one of Wales’ most recognised beef brands.
Welcomed at a growing number of hotels and restaurants across the Principality and West Country. Celtic Pride Beef carries the coveted Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status, awarded to food products that have full traceability within their country of origin.
Ty Nant
In the small hamlet of Bethania, West Wales on the edge of the Cambrian Mountains lies the celebrated spring of Ty Nant natural mineral water.
Amongst the mysteries of human powers is the art of water divination.
Drawn from an unseen force, the water diviner can locate exactly the source of vast amounts of underground water. In this way the powerful Ty Nant water source was discovered in 1976 by an eminent water diviner, Tom Astley, who was invited to locate water for domestic use on farmland in Bethania.
Acting on the diviners’ instruction, a borehole was sunk through one hundred feet of rock and clay to the underground aquifer and on first taste Mr Ashley declared it to be the purest water he had ever tasted. Subsequent stringent analysis confirmed the water’s naturally pure, well balanced composition, ideal for drinking.
Celtic Preserves
Based in Carmarthenshire on the edge of the famous Brecon Beacons, Celtic Preserves are a brand new preserves company already making waves in the Welsh food scene.
Stocked and sold through Wales’ largest food wholesaler, Castell Howell, Celtic Preserves are already the first choice of a growing number of restaurants, pubs, cafes, delis, shops, hotels and the public alike.
The secret lies in keeping one eye on traditional recipes from our Welsh heritage while keeping the other eye on innovation. Such a balance of old and new has allowed the brand to create an ever-expanding range of exciting.
Welsh Lady
Welsh Lady Preserves was established in 1966 in Pwllheli, North Wales. Founded by Dio and Marion Jones the company is now run by the second and third generations of the family- son John with his wife Carol and their daughter Hannah.
Taste and quality are our number one priorities so much so that we have won a number of awards for various different products that we produce. This includes winning the Supreme Champion on two different occasions at the Great Taste Awards for our All Butter Lemon Curd and our Apple & Cinnamon Curd.
Our products are traditionally handmade, with carefully chosen ingredients, and cooked in copper-bottomed open boiling pans. Making it as close to homemade as possible for the best possible taste.
Carmarthenshire Ham
The production of Carmarthen air dried, salt-cured Ham is dependent upon skill and experience which all started with Albert Rees, a market butcher in the 1970s and has since been passed down through the generations in the Rees family. Tradition and expertise are at the core of Carmarthen Ham and this translates to the incredible taste, which is delicate and mellow with salty overtones, providing a balanced sensation between tenderness and a tendency to melt in the mouth.
Carmarthen Ham has built on its traditional Welsh roots, where it was sold in the famous Carmarthen market in West Wales, to become internationally recognised and praised. It has been served in Royal Garden Parties and in many famous hotels and restaurants. In order to celebrate and protect this product and Welsh traditional skill, Carmarthen Ham was awarded PGI status in 2016.
Penderyn Whiskey
Distilling in Wales was a lost art, but in the late 1990s, in a Hirwaun pub in the Welsh valleys, a group of friends chatted about establishing the first whisky distillery in Wales in over a century. They dreamt of creating a whisky as pure and precious as Welsh gold, represented today by Penderyn’s ‘gold seam’. The village of Penderyn was chosen because of the site’s own supply of fresh natural spring water.
A unique copper single-pot still designed by Dr David Faraday, a relative of the great 19th-century scientist Michael Faraday, was installed in 2000, which produces a spirit at an industry high draw of 92%, meaning Penderyn’s whiskies are light, fruity and flavoursome. Penderyn’s Single Malt Welsh Whisky was awarded PGI status in 2023. This is the first new UK spirit to achieve GI status since the UKGI was launched and also becomes Wales’s first GI spirit.
