Elite Game is a butcher in Glen Oroua, Manawatu, rated 4.6 from nine Google reviews. Customers praise the butchery and presentation of the cuts, vacuum packing done properly, meat care tips freely shared, and venison salamis and sausages one reviewer reckons are the best they've ever had made.
Game butchery is a specialist trade. Venison is lean, so a good game butcher knows how long to hang a carcass, which cuts suit a hot pan and which want slow braising, and how to fold fat and seasoning into trim for salamis and sausages. For hunters, prompt chilling, patient ageing and careful packing decide whether a season's deer eats well, and vacuum packing keeps game in condition in the freezer for months.
In hunting and farming country like Glen Oroua, a butcher with those skills is a handy thing to have on the doorstep.