Please order anytime ... NOW!! Christmas at Black Mountains Smokery is hectic!   We're working flat out to plan production of  Traditional Oak Smoked Salmon ,  Oak Roasted Salmon &  Honey and Mustard Glazed Christmas Hams - ready to fill your festive table and ease entertaining.   We also send gifts and hampers all over the United Kingdom to delight your friends and family...

With a core staff of only five, the Black Mountains Smokery team doubles (or even triples!) in the our busy autumn months. With a busy fair schedule and thousands of parcels to send out in the run up to Christmas, it's all hands on deck... Kate is our full time office queen and part time jester! If you call   you will  probably find it is Kate that answers. This is her third year   with us, so she really...

We attend food fairs and festivals around the country, taking orders, handing out samples and selling a delicious selection of produce. Find out below when we'll be at an event near you. We love meeting our customers face to face!     Locally we attend Usk Farmers Market on 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings of every month.   Come and find us.   Our smokery shop in Crickhowell is open from 9am to...

Quality, provenance and welfare are at the very heart of what we do here at Black Mountains Smokery.   We take great pride in knowing the exact provenance of everything we buy and we only source our fresh produce from quality UK suppliers.   All our salmon comes from one group of salmon farms in Shetland, which Jonathan has visited, that keeps the fish in deep water with high currents. The fish are able to shoal and...

Thank you so much to Stephen Johnson at Monmouthshire and Brecon Living for writing such a wonderful article about us!   From our beginnings in 1996  to our  award winning range of smoked foods and our growing collection of gifts and hampers , the article really covers everything you need to know. All that's left to do is try some for yourself.   Our thanks also to Michael Williams, the photographer,...

At Black Mountains Smokery we use two smoking techniques - hot smoke, and cold smoke. The key difference between them is that one involves heat, and the other does not. Both of them infuse the product with the beautiful smokey flavour, but hot smoking (kiln roasting), also cooks it. This means that "Hot smoked" or "Oak Roasted" produce is cooked and ready to eat straight from the packet. Most of our range is smoked in this way, from...

We attend food fairs and festivals around the country, taking Christmas orders, handing out samples and selling a delicious selection of produce. Find out below when we'll be at an event near you. We love meeting our customers face to face!     Locally we attend Usk Farmers Market on 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings of every month (Except 15th December).   Come and find us.   Our smokery shop in...

  'For more than two decades Black Mountains Smokery has been feeding an insatiable appetite for the finest smoked foods' (Herefordshire Living, October 2018) Thank you so much to Herefordshire Living for writing a great article about us, our history and our ward winning , artisan smoked foods as we build up for our busiest time of year. To read the full article click  here  and go to page 81. 

    ' Black Mountains Smokery makes some of the best smoked fish and meats we’ve tried.' (The Independent, November 2017)  Last year The Independent listed our Penyrheol Festive Wicker Hamper in their 11 Best Christmas Food and Drink Hampers.  As it was one of our most popular hampers in 2017, we've kept in all your favourites for this year. We've added some of our new treats including handmade Aberffraw...

With a core staff of only five, the Black Mountains Smokery team doubles (or even triples!) in the our busy autumn months. With a busy fair schedule and thousands of parcels to send out in the run up to Christmas, it's all hands on deck... Kate is our full time office queen and part time jester! If you call   you will  probably find it is Kate that answers. This is her second  year   with us, so...