The Best Saffron, Outstanding

In Spain it is difficult to know how to distinguish the best saffron, it is a product on which the continuous suspicion hangs when it comes to buying it, will it be good ?, will it be from Spain? Or are they cheating us?

To be free of suspicion, products can be guaranteed in various ways, it is true that there are certifiers and quality seals to differentiate themselves, but beware, when they are the same companies who pay to have their product certified with a quality badge is not very reliable either. In the case of AragonGourmet.com a reliable saffron is offered with guarantees that can be trusted.

On the one hand there is the ecological certificate , this certification is carried out by a certifier that has a seal distinctive in each Autonomous Community , in this case it is the CAAE " Committee Aragonés de Agricultura Ecológica" that certifies the harvest of each year ensuring that it is free of chemicals in all processes of cultivation and also guarantees the origin of saffron. On the other hand it is a saffron awarded with the "Superior Taste Award ", this award is obtained after the blind tasting of more than 150 professionals from the restaurant sector, many of them Michelin stars, in the case of saffron de Azafranes Jiloca has achieved the rating of Outstanding in the quality of saffron.

The Superior Taste Award strong> are organized by the International Institute of Taste and Quality - iTQi , based in Brussels, is the leading organization dedicated to tasting and promoting superior taste food products < p> To compose its jury, the iTQi works in partnership with the 15 most prestigious culinary institutions in Europe such as the Maîtres Cuisiniers de France, the Academy of Culinary Arts, the Hellenic C hefs' Association, the Académie Culinaire de France, the Verband der Köche Deutschlands, the Federation of Cook Associations of Spain, the Federerazione dei Cuochi Italiana, Årets Kock of Sweden, Euro-Toques, the Gilde Van Nedrlandse Meesterkoks, the Associação de Cozinheiros Profissionais de Portugal, the Craft Guild of Chefs, the Turkish Cooks Association, the World Master Chefs Society (WMCS) and the Association of the Sommellerie Internationale (ASI).

Hundreds of small and large companies over 131 countries already benefit from the Superior Taste Awards , in Spain, together with saffron from Azafranes Jiloca, there are such prestigious products as White Garlic, Paschal Milk, Jijona Turron, Cantabrian Anchovy, 100% Iberian Bellona Ham, Cerex Beers, San Miguel Special Alhambra, Solan de Cabras Natural Mineral Water and many more high quality products. The selection process of the jury is very selective as well as the selection of products from each country and the tasting and scoring processes are carried out through very controlled protocols so that it is not known which brand is the product being tasted. get a reliable assessment without suspicion giving each product the category it has before the best professionals in the world who have the talent recognized by guides such as Michelin or Gault Millau.

An example of the components of the jury is.

- Claude Dupont (Euro-touches Belgium ) "2 Michelin stars"

- Pedro Larumbe (FAYCRE)

- Sergio Mauri (Italian Kitchen Federation) < p> - Guy Legay (French Culinary Academy) "2 Michelin stars"

- Sergio Garrido (Euro-touches Spain)

The Superior Taste Award - Superior Flavor could be considered the

Michelin Food Guide (Trends-Tendances, 21 August 2008)

Currently Azafranes Jiloca is the only Spanish company dedicated to icada to the production and commercialization of saffron in maintaining this distinguished award that endorses the quality and next to the ecological seal that endorses the origin is fully guaranteed the credibility of its products.

With these two stamps of differentiated quality it is amply proven and with enough guarantees for the consumer that saffron from Azafranes Jiloca and that we offer in Aragon Gourmet is from the better quality, outstanding nothing more and nothing less.

To achieve the Outstanding quality in saffron, it is necessary to treat all the processes of obtaining the spice with the utmost care, or from before you could say that everything starts with a good selection of the bulb to grow.