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.
Who makes it
Enric Garrigós is forty-five and spent fifteen years in Madrid selling insurance. Every December he went back to Xixona to help out in his father's workshop. Torrons de la Sarga is small: three people in autumn, one in summer.
When his father fell off a ladder in 2020, Enric asked for six months' unpaid leave. He never went back to the office. His youngest daughter goes to the village school and can already tell a good almond by its smell.
He says the big factories in Xixona make millions of bars. His makes as many as the season's almonds allow. If one year there are few, there is less turrón, and that is that.
How it is made
01
The Marcona almonds are roasted until they release their oil.
02
They are ground with the honey and sugar in the boixeta, the workshop's stone mill.
03
The paste is beaten warm for several hours until it turns soft.
04
It rests in moulds for a few days before being cut into bars.
Valencia region
Xixona is in the hills of Alicante, half an hour from the coast. It smells of roasted almonds from October until the sixth of January.
What we are allowed to say
Jijona of the Suprema grade has at least 64% almonds. Its fat is the almonds' own, which is why it is soft and oily.
What they do so it lasts
- 01The almonds are Marcona from Alicante and Albacete.
- 02No palm oil and no added fats.
- 03The boixeta has been the same one since 1946 and is repaired rather than replaced.
Where your money goes
- Enric Garrigós
- £4.00
- 47%
- Transport
- £0.60
- 7%
- @seis
- £1.50
- 18%
- The shop or home delivery
- £2.40
- 28%
Out of £8.60, the price before VAT. The VAT, £0.90, goes to the state.
What the label says
- Format
- 300 g bar
- Ingredients
- Roasted Marcona almonds (64%), honey, sugar and egg white.
- Allergens
- Contains almonds and egg.
- Storage
- In a cool, dry place. If it releases oil, that is a good sign.
- Best before
- 12 months from making.
- Seal
- PGI Jijona
- Made in
- Xixona, Valencia region
