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MARGOT L’Artisan Boucher (Neuchatel) - Saucisse A Rotir de Porc

We normally conduct our reviews on sausage available in the UK so people can try them themselves, however this time here’s a review about “foreign” sausage for a singularly significant reason…

We visited Neuchatel in Switzerland recently and I even got encouragement from my other half to purchase sausage from an artisan butcher. I didn’t need much encouragement if honest, so with my best school standard French I left the shop with a sausage of sizeable proportion to cook in our holiday rental apartment that evening.

The SAUCISSE A ROTIR DE PORC from MARGOT L’Artisan Boucher was like a big Cumberland ring sort of thing, which the translation has it as a “pork roasting sausage”.  Oh well, we’re pan frying…

The sausage did look excellent in it’s vacuum pack. Good colour and texture with the makings being from what we understood at the time to be 90% pork, with bacon, white wine, celery, spices and in NATURAL pork casings. OK yes as the label says also antioxidant E300, dextrose, acidifier E575, and cooking salt… Interestingly no mention of rusk or bread so whether these are gluten free is a question we ask.

Unwound perhaps the equivalent of say 7 standard UK butchers sausages and weighing in at 628g according to the label.

Cooking up still in the ring shape the aroma was very, very good. The skin browned really well without any splits or bursts although it was a bit of a challenge to turn in the pan as we didn’t have any skewers or similar to keep it from unwinding.

What an excellent texture though, firm as you would imagine from a high percentage filling, but very succulent and moreish. The taste was excellent, and I really mean that. You get the white wine and herbs most definitely.

No obvious shrinkage in the cooking, but as we didn’t have any scales, gauging weight loss wasn’t really possible. Minimum oil released to the pan too. It cut really nicely and the bite/chew was absolutely the business.

I’ve emailed the shop to ask a few questions as to source of pork etc., and I’ll update the review when received.

Now we come to the singularly significant reason for the review…the price!

This sausage is the most expensive by far we’ve ever paid…22 Swiss Francs…that’s £20.56     Waaaah!     Nearly £3 an equivalent single standard UK sized sausage! Yes, and that makes it an eye watering £32.54 / kilo….

A blooming good excellently made sausage, which it ought to be at that price. Well worthy of top marks...

Would we buy again though?   Hmm??  Tempted yes, it was that good….

MARGOT (Neuchatel) - Saucisse A Rotir de Porc  (Sep 2025)

Here's the sample details:

Equiv of approx 7 loose sausages £20.56 (£32.54/kg)


   

 
  
  
 

MARGOT L’Artisan Boucher
Rue des Moulins 6,
Seyon 5-2000,
Neuchatel,
Switzerland