Jar of Huerta del Guadalope peaches in syrup under the peach trees of Calanda

Matarraña and Teruel

Calanda peaches in syrup

Carmen y Álex Nogués in Calanda · 1 kg jar

£7.70

VAT included

In London you can find it in these shops.

Before you order it to your door, see if a shop is near you. They keep it for you and you pick it up when it suits you.

  • Colmado Hackney

    Chatsworth Road 61, London

    Tue to Fri 12:00 to 20:00 · Sat to Sun 11:00 to 17:00

  • Despensa Northcote

    Northcote Road 74, London

    Mon to Fri 10:00 to 19:00 · Sat 10:00 to 17:00

If there is no shop near you, we send it to your door.

Delivery to United Kingdom: £17.10, 4 to 6 days.

Delivery already includes customs and taxes. You pay nothing more when it arrives.

Hamburg shop with wooden shelves where a shopkeeper slices cheese
Carmen Nogués and her son Álex in the Calanda peach orchard in July
Huerta del GuadalopeSince 1988

Who makes it

Carmen Nogués has spent thirty-six years bagging peaches in her father's orchard by the Guadalope. Every July she slips a paper bag over each fruit by hand. That comes to about forty thousand.

Álex Nogués sorts the peaches that are too small for the table

Her son Álex is twenty-four and has a degree in food technology from Teruel. Preserving the peaches that are too small to sell as table fruit was his idea. Before, they went for juice at next to nothing.

Álex and Carmen Nogués look at a jar of peaches in the family kitchen

The designation covers the fresh fruit, not the preserve. So the jar carries no seal, even though every peach met its rules on the tree. Álex says he would rather explain that than wear a medal that is not his.

How it is made

  1. Carmen Nogués puts a paper bag over each peach on the tree in July

    01

    In July every peach is wrapped in a paper bag on the tree.

  2. A worker opens the paper bag and picks a yellow peach in October

    02

    They are picked by hand in September and October, after three months inside the bag.

  3. Carmen Nogués and two neighbours peel and stone peaches by hand

    03

    They are peeled and stoned by hand in the orchard's own workshop.

  4. Álex Nogués covers the peaches with syrup and pasteurises the jars

    04

    They are covered in light syrup and pasteurised in the same jar.

Alcañiz with its castle above the Guadalope and olive groves up to the last houses

Matarraña and Teruel

Calanda lies in the Guadalope valley in Bajo Aragón, surrounded by orchards and vegetable plots. The late peach is picked when there are none left anywhere else in Spain.

See the region
An opened paper bag on the branch shows a yellow peach with thin skin

What we are allowed to say

The bag shields the peach from direct sun and insects in its last months. That is why it ripens slowly, with thin yellow skin.

What the studies say, on the blog

What they do so it lasts

  1. 01The paper bags end up on the orchard's own compost heap.
  2. 02The orchard is drip-fed with water from the irrigation channel.
  3. 03Peaches too small for the table go into the jar.
Compost heap of used paper fruit bags at the edge of the orchard

Where your money goes

Carmen y Álex Nogués
£3.60
51%
Transport
£0.40
5%
@seis
£1.10
16%
The shop or home delivery
£2.00
28%

Out of £7.00, the price before VAT. The VAT, £0.70, goes to the state.

How we work
A Copenhagen shopkeeper places jars on a wooden shelf

What the label says

Format
1 kg jar
Ingredients
Peaches, water, sugar and lemon juice.
Allergens
No allergens that need declaring.
Storage
In the cupboard. Once open, in the fridge and within five days.
Best before
24 months from packing.
Seal
No seal
Made in
Calanda, Matarraña and Teruel
Álex Nogués covers the peaches with syrup and pasteurises the jars
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