Our customers trust us to select only the finest meats available—the crème de la crème. So we have established the Lobel’s standard of quality for Wagyu beef.
Marbling
Lobel’s American Wagyu is densely marbled, exceeding USDA standards for prime grade. Using the 12-point marbling score scale, our Wagyu will score 9 points or higher. At that level, the Wagyu is marbling is abundant and evenly distributed throughout the meat.
Maturity
Developing an intricate network of marbling—fine rivulets of intramuscular fat—takes time. There’s just no substitute for it.
The cattle that yield Lobel’s American Wagyu beef are on a feeding program a minimum of 450 days. Mass-marketed Wagyu beef comes from cattle that are on a feeding program for about 150 days. Such young cattle simply cannot develop marbling as dense as that of mature cattle.
Diet
For most of their lives, Lobel’s American Wagyu cattle are fed a variety of natural grains—a 100% vegetarian diet, absolutely free of any animal by-products. Their feed program is free of subtherapeutic antibiotics and growth hormones.
Dry Aging
Wagyu beef is incredibly tender and extremely delicate meat. Consequently, it requires a shorter time in our patented dry-aging lockers. Lobel’s American Wagyu is dry aged for a minimum of three weeks and up to six weeks.
