Orujo los picos
Interview with isabel garcia, justina de liebana
Company dedicated since 1986 to the distillation of pomace spirits using the traditional method of copper stills from Liebana and the production of liqueurs and creams. Under the brand ORUJO DE LOS PICOS, together with LICORES DE LOS PICOS, we have maintained since our origin and until today the tradition in the distillation processes, carefully selecting the raw materials used, which has allowed us to obtain a high level of quality, as it is recognized both nationally and internationally to the satisfaction and delight of lovers of a good quality orujo.
The company’s product range includes two aguardientes de orujo, three liqueurs (tea, honey and coffee) and two creams (orujo and coffee). New products will soon join this list, within the main activity of the company, an organic line, with a white brandy and a liqueur of orujo with honey, both made with 100% organic products, and on the other hand, an exclusive delicatessen, the ‘Quemón Los Picos’, an exquisite combination of Bejes-Tresviso picón cheese with our orujo.
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In 1986, when Carmen Gómez, being from Liébana, was told about the risk that the orujo of her region was running, she decided to create Orujo de Liébana, S.A., and thus, through the company created, be able to distil the orujo in fixed copper stills, in accordance with the requirements of sanitary norms and fiscal transparency in which the sector found itself.
Since then and until today, Orujo de Liébana, S.A. has maintained the tradition in the distillation processes, carefully selecting the raw materials used, which has allowed us to obtain a high level of quality, as our products are nowadays recognized in the national and international market for the satisfaction and delight of those who love a good quality orujo.
Orujo sierra del oso potes cantabria factory
Origin: Cantabria Category: marc liqueur Capacity: 70 cl. Alcohol content: 48% Vol.Aguardiente de Orujo (solid part of the destemmed grape, which remains once the wine is made), distilled drop by drop in the traditional copper alquitara lebaniega.
Tasting notes:At sight it is transparent, crystalline, limpid and bright, with the characteristic sharp aromas of the distillate wrapped in subtle notes of ripe stone fruit, apricots, peaches, pears in syrup, sparkles of mint. Intense and persistent with very fine and elegant fragrances. Sweet on the palate, tasty and deep where the calorific power of alcohol, acidity and bitterness are in perfect balance, the trajectory in the mouth is silky and enveloping, retronasal aromas of ripe fruit and notes of balsamic and anise. Perfect distillate in all its stages.
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Very pure Orujo of high quality elaborated by hand in the traditional alquitara lebaniega, obtaining the old aguardiente of all the life, clean and transparent, very aromatic and fruity with touches of grape raisin in nose that last. In the mouth it is delicate with flavors of grapes in liquor, having a pleasant and warming passage once it reaches the stomach, being also very digestive.
Pomace is a spirit obtained by distillation of grape marc, i.e. the solid parts of the grape harvest «skin» that is not used in the previous winemaking process. It is a slow process that requires a lot of patience to obtain a high quality pomace. The alquitars are used for its distillation.
The stills are made of copper and have three parts: boiler, capotillo and cup, in order from bottom to top. The distillation must be slow and regulated to obtain a spirit with the appropriate degrees.
The distillation of pomace does not aim at a simple extraction of alcohol, but rather a fine and selective extraction of the aromatic components contained in the pomace, through concentration, to obtain a drink that is pleasing to the senses, respectful of a tradition and a culture, and that defines in its organoleptic characteristics the differentiated personality of the raw material from which it comes.
