{"id":3073,"date":"2022-05-09T05:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:08:14","slug":"finca-helechal-iberico-sampler-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2022\/05\/finca-helechal-iberico-sampler-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Finca Helechal Ib\u00e9rico Sampler: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Expensive but Delicious<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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I wouldn’t have paid $20 for 4 oz of Ib\u00e9rico cold cuts if it wasn’t my birthday. But it was, so when I saw this tapas sampler at Cost Plus I threw caution to the wind and put it in my cart. I’m glad I did. While ridiculously expensive (but, Ib\u00e9rico ham is ridiculously expensive in Spain too – though a sampler like this would cost about half to a third<\/a> as much), it was absolutely delicious. As good as any pork product I’ve had in Spain, at stores or restaurants. Even as good as the Ib\u00e9rico ham my friend’s mother – a butcher – would send from Extremadura to her house in Madrid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sampler comes with one ounce (28g) each of jam\u00f3n ib\u00e9rico, ib\u00e9rico pork loin, ib\u00e9rico salchich\u00f3n and ib\u00e9rico chorizo. I had meant to eat these with bread or crackers, but I ended up eating them all on their own. The paper thin slices of each were so good that I couldn’t bear to add other flavors to it. I really can’t say which was my favorite, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Finca Helechal” is a brand of Ib\u00e9rico pork products producer “Embutidos Ferm\u00edn<\/a>“, a small family company based on La Alberca, Salamanca. They have different levels of products, the top ones made from pigs fed acorns. These ones are made from grain-fed free range pigs that are only 50% Iberian. Unless you are tasting the two products side by side, I don’t think you’ll notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll definitely buy this again. And maybe next time, I’ll share it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Expensive but Delicious I wouldn’t have paid $20 for 4 oz of Ib\u00e9rico cold cuts if it wasn’t my birthday. But it was, so when I saw this tapas sampler at Cost Plus I threw caution to the wind and put it in my cart. I’m glad I did. While ridiculously expensive (but, Ib\u00e9rico ham […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[531,533,84,387,28,706],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-items","tag-birthday-week-extravaganza","tag-chorizo","tag-ham","tag-pork","tag-reviews","tag-world-market","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}