Cecinas de La Collada

Since 1963
Ham and charcuterie
Vegacervera, León
Nacho Robles

Cecina de León PGI

Cecinas de La Collada is a drying house in Vegacervera, in the mountains of León, that Nacho Robles's grandfather opened in 1963. Nacho is thirty-five and worked as a designer in Madrid.

During the pandemic he came back to the village for a few weeks. The drying house had been shut for two years and his grandfather went down to look at it every day. Nacho asked him to teach him. His grandfather did, and then died at peace.

Vegacervera has fewer than three hundred people. Nacho says the drying house gives work to three of them, and in this village three is a lot.

A day with Nacho Robles

Hindquarters of beef are covered in coarse salt.

They are washed and smoked over oak and holm oak.

They dry in the mountain drying house for at least seven months.

They are sliced very thin and vacuum-packed.

How they make it

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