Jamones Vallejo Trevélez

Since 1952 committed to the tradition of producing magnificent 100% natural Hams, free of ditives,

Jamones Vallejo is a family-run company located in the town of Trevélez, in the heart of the Sierra Nevada Natural Park at an altitude of 1,750 m.

The jamonera family tradition of this town comes from ancient times.

The Vallejo family was the first to industrialize the process of cured ham in Trevélez by building a dry cleaners founded by D. Manuel Vallejo Prados in 1951, with the philosophy of offering a high quality ham.

Luis Jorge Vallejo, the current owner of the company maintains the same business policy, combining the tradition inherited, with the latest technical and technological advances for the production of ham.

Jamones Vallejo Trevélez

Hams Vallejo Trevélez has the oldest hams dryer in the Alpujarra.

It was founded in 1951 in Trevélez , province of Granada, the highest town in Spain, and its gourmet hams are the most awarded in the Alpujarra (5 national awards).

History of Hams Vallejo Trevélez

On October 10, 1862, Queen Elizabeth II granted cured hams in trevelez the privilege of stamping on hams the seal of her crown.

89 years later Hams Vallejo Trevélez collected the good work of making this product and founded in 1951 the first dry cleaners built in Trevelez to cure the famous gourmet hams.

In 1992 the regulation of the specific name Ham of Trevelez of which Jamones Vallejo is a founding member was approved .

All the hams of this Hams Vallejo have their own D. N. I. in which all the traceability of the pig is followed: from its birth, feeding, place of slaughter and later salting and curing giving total guarantee to our customers.

Thanks to its traditional salting system Hams Vallejo is the dryer that adds less salt to the ham, a main characteristic that differentiates it from the rest of the hams, produced in the Trevélez area

Several quality controls from the seal or vitola surrounding the wrist to the final labelling of the parts are carried out by persons (technicians) of the Regulatory Council of the origin name Trevélez .

The Regulatory Board has stipulated 3 SEALs (blue, red and black) for trevelez Ham depending on weight, and the Blue Seal cure is for 7 kg to 7.5 kg hams and has a cure of 17 months

The Red Seal is 7.5 kg to 8 kg and its minimum cure is 20 months and finally the Black Seal has a weight of 8.5 kg to 9 kg and a minimum cure of 24 months.

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