A new location, more companies and products than ever before and an extensive programme of activities are ensuring a large number of visitors to the 10th edition of the ‘Sabores Almería’ Fair over the long weekend in December. The Plaza de las Velas in the city of Almería is hosting this event, which has become a classic for anticipating the Christmas atmosphere in the province, until Saturday, 9 December, from 11am to 10pm.
During these days, locals and visitors are taking advantage of the opportunity to have concentrated in the same space hundreds of references and products of up to 42 companies of the gourmet brand promoted by the Diputación de Almería. Beers, meats, sweets, wines and spirits, oils, pickles, fruit and vegetables, bakery, cheeses, fish, sausages… are surprising consumers with their excellence and creativity.
The Deputy for Agri-food Promotion, Trade and Consumer Affairs, Carlos Sánchez, explained that «visitors to the fair are taking advantage of the opportunity offered by this meeting point to fill their larders in preparation for the Christmas celebrations and that local products, which are the best in the world, are the stars of the most important moments of the festive season».
In this sense, the deputy recalled that «anyone who has not yet visited the fair has until this Saturday to do so and discover the quality and originality of the creations of the companies that are part of ‘Sabores Almería’. And the little ones will be able to enjoy the chocolate workshops with La Virgitana».
Quality, tradition and pride in Almería
The companies of ‘Sabores Almería’ offer visitors their flavour, originality and health. From Rioja, Productos Pichote presents its wide range of artisan products made with virgin olive oil. Mantecados, aniseed and orange doughnuts, oil doughnuts, doughnuts with sugar or chocolate are just a sample of their products.
Cervezas Origen (Huércal de Almería) exhibits its craft beer of high fermentation, called Ale type, which differentiates it from the Lager type, which are of low fermentation. Totally natural, this drink ferments quickly at a temperature between 15º and 25º. They create a full-bodied beer, where the malt flavour stands out with a balanced hopping.
Lorusso, from Chercos, continues with its proposal of delicatessen jams with a careful and painstaking design that has captivated palates all over the world and has won it important international awards. Its jams are organic, handmade, using renewable energy sources.
Aceitunas Claudio, Benahadux, is a family business specialising in the selection, packaging and manufacture of the best quality olives and pickles. Its aim is to offer its customers olives of the highest quality and flavour, using traditional production methods and taking care of every detail of the process.
Puerto Único offers its range of liqueurs, handcrafted drinks made from carefully selected raw materials which, together with the old formula found in the archives of the sugar and distillates factory in Adra, provide an exceptional rum with a unique flavour.
Del Barco a la Mesa shares its sales model that brings the freshest fish on the market to any corner of the world. It is sent directly from the auction at the fish market, without intermediaries. Their fleet fishes every day along the coast of Almeria and the Alboran Sea, harvesting the species that we sell here, and for this reason they guarantee absolute freshness and traceability of their products.
Bodegas Palomillo, Vélez Rubio, offers its wines as ‘Está por venir’, an organic cultivation in the area of El Yunco de los Gázquez, an incomparable environment for the ageing of a wine with the flavour of Almería. Its organic vineyards produce Tempranillo, Merlot and Syrah grapes. Millenary traditions and cutting-edge technology.
DeSuflí brings to the ‘Sabores Almería’ Fair its products and philosophy, that of 100% artisan production using local vegetables and fruits and following the traditional methods taught by their parents and grandparents. The machines used have a heart and the peppers, tomatoes, onions, aubergines and other vegetables are treated with the utmost respect.
Licores Naturales is a family business that produces and sells top quality liqueurs. Among its creations is a slightly spicy lemon, mint and cinnamon liqueur. They are currently developing other varieties of liqueur that are totally natural in their composition without preservatives, colourings, stabilisers, added flavours or aromas, or any chemical products.
Cofesa has brought to the ‘Sabores Almería’ fair its intense coffee, famous for its exquisite flavour and special aroma. A balanced product, with excellent body and intense aroma. Each of its blends is prepared in a unique way, with the highest quality beans from the most prestigious plantations in the world.
The companies that are filling the Plaza de las Velas with flavour, quality and health will be the following:
1. ALMAZARA DE LUBRÍN
2. CERVEZA FILABRES
3. ÓLEO JARICO
4. JAMONES TÍO EMILIO
5. JAMONES PEDRO CASTAÑO
6. LA BUJALDONA
7. CERVEZA NEVADA
8. CERVEZA FM
9. LICOR EL GADORENSE
10. MIEL SIERRA FILABRES
11. CERVEZAS FAR WEST
12. CHOCOLATES LA VIRGITANA
13. CASI
14. EMBUTIDOS ALPUJARREÑOS
15. LA ORZA DE ALMERÍA
16. PANADERÍA EL TÚNEL
17. TOROLE CERVEZAS GOURMET
18. BIOSOL PORTOCARRERO
19. AQUÍ CARBONERAS-LA GAMBA ROJA
20. SABORES DE SERÓN
21. MEDAL LAUJAR
22. BODEGA LAURICIUS
23. PRODUCTOS PICHOTE
24. CERVEZAS ORIGEN
25. LORUSSO
26. ACEITUNAS CLAUDIO
27. PUERTO ÚNICO
28. DEL BARCO A LA MESA
29. BODEGA PALOMILLO
30. DESUFLÍ
31. LICORES NATURALES
32. COFESA
33. JONIMIEL
34. CEPA BOSQUET
35. CONSERVAS LA RECETA
36. INDUSTRIAS CÁRNICAS DIEGO MOLINA
37. PRODUCTOS ARTESANALES GUADA
38. RAICES ALMAJALEJO
39. LOS AMADEOS
40. ÓLEO ALMANZORA
41. EMBUTIDOS PEÑA CRUZ
42. SERONÉS