Speck Alto Adige
Speck Alto Adige IGP is a pork-leg salume that combines seasoning, gentle beech-wood smoking and air drying in South Tyrol.
- Cut
- Pork hind leg
- Protected name
- Speck Alto Adige IGP
- Production reference
- South Tyrol
Spices and smoke
The consortium describes separate stages: seasoning with salt and spices, including juniper; gentle smoking with low-resin beech wood; and maturation with mountain air. Juniper in the seasoning does not make this a juniper-wood-smoked ham. Producers keep their own spice mixtures within the product’s requirements.
Look for the full name
The protected Speck Alto Adige IGP name belongs to product made under its specifications. A generic label saying speck does not by itself establish that identity.
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Sources and citations (1)
- Elenco delle DOP e IGP dei prodotti agricoli e alimentari
