Cinco Jotas
Spain’s National Treasure
René Lemee. Cinco Jotas International Director
rene.lemee@osborne.es
Salvatierra, 6 28034 Madrid (Spain)
Tel.: + 34 603 599 213
@www.cincojotas.com/es
Cinco Jotas is a legendary brand that has devoted more than 130 years to safeguarding the authenticity of products made from 100% Ibérico pigs. The unparalleled taste and quality of our ham is the result of factors that have to do mainly with persistence in our traditional methodology. Our product is unique, first- rate, gourmet, exclusive, distinctive and impossible to reproduce if its factors were to be changed.
Our indigenous pigs are raised in a natural and free range habitat in the Spanish dehesa, ancient oak meadows, and a one of a kind ecosystem unique to the Iberian Peninsula. Thanks to extensive daily exercise (14 km walks) and diet (consisting of acorns and other natural ingredients) we are able to produce the highest quality meat products.
Our hundred-year-old cellars are in Jabugo, an exceptional enclave ideal for curing meat, located in the heart of the Sierra Aracena-Picos de Aroche Natural Park (declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO).
Cinco Jotas is part of an ancient tradition of breeding, processing and carving by hand. Our artisans bring knowledge and wisdom passed down from generation to generation, a custom that is still maintained today.
Over 130 years devoted to preserving the authenticity of products obtained from Acorn Fed 100% Ibérico pigs
Faithful to its origins, Cinco Jotas has preserved the purebreed 100% Ibérico pig and the natural ecosystem where it is raised. Backed by more than 15 years of research into livestock production, Cinco Jotas has a team of veterinarians and agricultural technicians that are wholly and exclusively devoted to animal studies, care and control and the 100% Ibérico pig and its habitat, the centuries-old meadows of southwestern part of the Iberian peninsula. Our pigs – 100% Ibérico mothers and fathers – are controlled and recorded in the AECERIBER official genealogical book.
Our founders were pioneers in developing products made from Acorn Fed 100% Ibérico pigs. At Cinco Jotas, we only produce the highest quality Ibérico products: Acorn Fed and 100% Ibérico breed. Our slaughtering, carving and salting facilities are used only 2 months out of the year depending on the availability of acorns in the meadows. This may seem economically and productively unacceptable, but from a quality point of view, it yields the most exclusive results.
Cinco Jotas ́ 70,000 m2 facilities include the legendary natural cellars where we cure our products, and modernized next generation slaughtering and hand-slicing installations.
Our products are certified for export to the 5 continents. Our professionals are able to make the very best ham thanks to their experience, a handed down tradition of 130 years of dedication to the “art”, perfected traditional recipes, 100-year-old natural cellars that ensure superb maturation and the Jabugo climate which lends a distinctive stamp of quality to the product.