Buy Spanish Ham Online.

Both Spanish cured ham and Spanish dry cured ham are the same type of Spanish ham. Every kind of hams have different characteristics, depending basically on the brand. Could be an acorn-fed iberian spanish ham or acorn-fed iberian Spanish ham shoulder. You can discover all our varieties in our online store, jamonpasion.com.

Jamón Pasión, your Online Spanish Ham Shop

At Jamón Pasión, we specialise in pork products, in particular Serrano and Iberian Spanish hams and shoulders, of our Spanish cured ham and Spanish dry cured ham. We couldn’t be prouder of our long experience and family tradition. Jamón Pasión’s online store is the best place to purchase the best brands of jamón Ibérico (Iberian Spanish ham) straight from the official producers and farmers, selecting your products with the best balance and maturation according to personal taste. We sell products as Spanish cured ham or Spanish dry cured ham from the leading brands in the sector, including Jamones 5 Jotas, Sánchez Romero Carvajal, Benito, Joselito Gran Reserva, Jamones Lazo, Morato, Majada Pedroche, to name just a few.

We also sell the following types of ham products in our Spanish Ham Shop:

• Jabugo – Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Iberian hams
• Guijuelo – Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Iberian hams
• Los Pedroches – Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Iberian hams
• Dehesa de Extremadura – Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Iberian hams

In addition to the above, our selection of Spanish ham includes our popular Trevélez Serrano ham (Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) Trevélez), one of the Iberian Peninsula’s very best varieties of Serrano ham originating from white pigs and produced in the Alpujarra area (province of Granada, Sierra Nevada, in the autonomous region of Andalusia, southern Spain), as well as our prestigious and exquisite 100% Duroc Serrano hams.

Our selection also includes:

• 100% bellota Iberian Spanish ham (100% Pata Negra, Iberian acorn-fed ham, black bridle)
• 50% bellota Iberian ham (50% Iberian acorn-fed pork breed, red bridle)
• 100% or 50% Iberian Cebo de Campo ham (100% or 50% Iberian pork breed, field fattened, green bridle)
• 50% Iberian Cebo Ham (50% Iberian pork breed, cereal-fed, white bridle)

And when talking about shoulders:

• 100% acorn-fed Iberian Spanish ham shoulder (Pata negra pork shoulder)
• 50% acorn-fed Iberian ham shoulder
• 50% Iberian Cebo de Campo ham shoulder
• 50% Iberian ham shoulder

Plus, visitors of our Spanish Ham Shop will also find bellota iberico Spanish ham delicatessen and Cebo de Campo Iberian Delicatessen products, such as loin cane, morcón (large blood sausage), salchichón (Iberian spicy sausage) and chorizo (spicy pork sausage). Buy Spanish ham at our online store today.

Which ham to buy for value for money?

There are three main types of ham that can be bought in terms of their value for money, or quality/price ratio: Serrano ham, Iberian ham and acorn-fed Iberian ham. Serrano ham has been a fan favourite in Spain for a very long time. It is obtained from the salting and drying of the hind legs of the pig. This is called shoulder (“paleta” or “paletilla”) when the ham is derived from the animal’s front legs. Serrano ham is contrasted with cooked ham, also known as “York ham” or “sweet ham”. The reason why it’s called Serrano is because of the custom of curing the meat in high-altitude locations in the mountains (“sierras” in Spanish), where low temperatures facilitate curing. The pig itself may be white, or of the Iberian breed (“Ibérico”). This animal’s ham is called Iberico ham and tends to have a higher price compared to Serrano ham, as the breed is more highly valued.

Bellota Iberico ham (the acorn-fed iberian ham), is derived from the animal fed on acorns during the “montanera” season, or fattening period. The white pig is not fed acorns. You can buy serrano ham at our online store today and taste all varieties of best quality hams.

Other popular varieties available to consumers are more infiltrated types of ham with more back fat than white pork ham. Acorn-fed pigs are raised and fed in the open air in Spanish pastures and meadows, and feed on wild fruits, herbs and acorns during the montanera season. These animals are either 75% or 50% Iberian breed, but 100% racial purity breed can also be found – this is highly valued and is known as “Pata Negra” ham, or black leg. The diet and aging does not change – the only difference is the degree of racial purity. Acorn-fed pigs are only fed acorns from October to March, during the montanera, or fattening, period. The rest of the year they are fed on cereals and legumes.

The best cheap Spanish hams in Jamón Pasión

• At Jamón Pasión we sell hams from the following different Protected Designations of Origin:
• Jabugo – Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Iberian hams
• Guijuelo – Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Iberian hams
• Los Pedroches – Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Iberian hams
• Dehesa de Extremadura – Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Iberian hams

In Spain there are in fact five Protected Designations of Origin for hams, the fifth one for the Serrano ham from white pigs. Teruel ham is the best-selling ham with a differentiated quality seal PDO in Spain. The ham engraved by fire with the emblematic 8-pointed star is far superior to the other four PDOs that are available in Spain in terms of cured hams. In second place we find the Jamón de Trevélez, which is protected by the PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) seal.

The certification of the Dehesa de Extremadura PDO ham and shoulder implies a comprehensive control from the beginning to the end: from the control of the pig in the pastures (control of breed, weight, identification and feeding), passing through the identification of the pieces in slaughterhouse (placement of seals), carrying out the audits in the drying room and warehouse and ending with the control of the final product before going to the market, initialed with the Council's back label. All these steps (pig by pig, piece by piece) are audited by the technical services inspectors of the Regulatory Council, thus guaranteeing a strict control system with guaranteed traceability. It is essential that both the exploitation and the slaughterhouse, and the drying room-winery are in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, which allows a stricter control if possible, despite its geographical extension.