The XXVI 100% Iberian Acorn-fed Ham Fair DOP Los Pedroches will include three tasting days open to the public and a provincial-level tasters' competition.
The XXVI 100% Iberian Acorn-fed Ham Fair DOP Los Pedroches will be held in Villanueva de Córdobafrom November 5 to 8. According to Félix Romero, delegate of Economic Development, Promotion and Employment of the Diputación de Córdoba, the event will feature three tasting days open to the public.
New features of this edition
The mayor of Villanueva de Córdoba, Isaac Reyes, has stated that this edition keeps the Túnel del Jamón and adds an «escape room» titled «Guardianes de la Dehesa». In addition, the Ayuntamiento will make public the formal request to the Junta de Andalucía for the fair to be named a Fiesta of Tourist Interest of Andalusia.
The regional tasters' competition becomes provincial in scope, with an invitation to all professionals in the province to take part on Sunday. The president of the DOP Los Pedroches, Antonio Jesús Torralbo, has detailed that this edition debuts a more legible and modern label and that the invited institution will be the Ayuntamiento de Cambados, within the framework of the European campaign «Al fin juntos» linking the Rías Baixas and Los Pedroches designations.
Planned programme
On Friday, November 6, the XXVI Competition for the Best 100% Iberian Acorn-fed Ham DOP Los Pedroches will be held, with recognition for the farmer and the farm of origin of the pig of the winning ham. That same day the Regional Competition for the Best Cutter is scheduled, and on Sunday, November 8, the XXVI National Competition for the Best Cutter.
The programme also includes technical sessions, seminars, business exhibitors, the Iberian Pig Market Price Board, tasting areas, artisans and local tourism companies, and guided visits.
The sector in figures
The territorial delegate of Agriculture of the Junta de Andalucía, Raquel López, has indicated that Córdoba leads in Iberian pig production with more than 210,000 animals and more than 2,000 holdings, and has more than 360,000 hectares of dehesa. Villanueva de Córdoba has the highest number of Iberian pig holdings in the province, she added.
Romero has stated that the fair seeks to turn the recognition obtained in Ronda as the best ham in the world into more sales and more visitors to the villages.
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