Great Taste, the world’s most trusted food and drink awards, has reached its grand finale for 2020, with the Charcuterie Product of the Year trophy presented to Jamones Juan Pedro Domecq from Madrid, Spain for its Jamon de Bellota 100% Iberico Pata Negra. Having also won the Charcuterie Product of the Year title in 2014 with the same product, Jamones Juan Pedro Domecq now joins a select group of producers who have multiple Golden Fork trophies to their name.
Producing food and wine in Spain since 1730, the Domecq family has been breeding free range animals for centuries, passing this passion and experience down through the generations. Employing a fully artisanal process, the winning Jamon de Bellota 100% Iberico Pata Negra comes from acorn fed, 100% Iberico pigs and is cured for a minimum of 42 months to deliver a “complexity that almost defies description”, according to the Great Taste judges. Applauded for its “salty, sweet, tender, melt-in-the-mouth” qualities, which “exemplify ancient artisan skills”, this product was described as “close to being the best food on the planet” by one of the panel.
Having impressed at every stage of the blind-tasted judging process, as a record-breaking 12,777 entries were assessed over 14 weeks of remote judging and socially distanced judging sessions, the “blissful” Jamon de Bellota 100% Iberico Pata Negra earned the title of Charcuterie Product of the Year during the virtual Great Taste Golden Fork award ceremony on Thursday 22 October.
Taking place across the Guild of Fine Food’s social media channels and website, the online event brought together food lovers, producers, retailers, buyers and chefs to discover this year’s stars of food and drink, providing a vital boost for the industry as the nation moves towards the most important Christmas period in a generation. Held later in the year than usual, after the lockdown interrupted judging just one week into the schedule, the Golden Fork trophy announcements are the final instalment in a Great Taste calendar that has been reinvented at every stage, in order to stimulate much-needed consumer support for independent retail and hospitality over the challenging months ahead.
This year’s panel of judges included; cook, writer and champion of sustainable food, Melissa Hemsley, cook, writer, stylist and voice of modern vegetarian cooking, Anna Jones, celebrated Spanish chef, José Pizarro, Kavi Thakrar from Dishoom, food writer and cook, Xanthe Clay, and baker and author, Martha Collison, as well as food buyers from Selfridges, Fortnum & Mason and Waitrose. These esteemed palates tasted and re-judged the 3-star winners to finally agree on the Golden Fork trophy winners and the Great Taste 2020 Supreme Champion.
The Charcuterie Product of the Year award was sponsored by Fine Food Digest.
Winner contact details:
Maria Emiliana Palacios Sucre at Jamones Juan Pedro Domecq
https://jamonesjuanpedrodomecq.com/es/
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