Agroaldea
La Gomera, Tenerife and Gran Canaria agglutinate 21 awards of this first edition of the contest, organized by the Canary Islands Government.
“gofio Gomero”, wheat, Millo, and barley has been awarded with the award for Best Gofio Canary Islands 2015, I Official Competition in product, event organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and waters of the Canary Islands by the Canarian Institute of agro-food quality (ICCA).
This output produced by the miller Rayco Herrera, Hermigua, La Gomera, He also won the distinction of Best Local Grain Gofio, two Grand Gold Medals and three Oros, other participants for their productions.
The award for Best Gofio with Protected Geographical Indication was to Quanarian, prepared by CETECAL, in Tenerife, which also won the Best Picture and Presentation, and Best Ecological Gofio Gofio went to the oat Pineapple, of Las Palmas.
Of the four Grand Gold Medals awarded, two went to Comeztier, of Bald Cafes (Tenerife), for their wheat gofios, and wheat and millet; and the other two for Gofio Gomero local grain millet and wheat, Millet and barley, mill also won three gold medals for its wheat gofio, millo, and wheat, corn, barley, oats and garbanzo.
Oros other in the category of wheat were distributed among Quanarian, Gofio and San Antonio- in La Matanza (Tenerife)-; and that of Millo between Gofio Mill Imendi, (San Sebastián de La Gomera) and San Pedro Gofio Mill (santa Brigida, Gran Canaria), both with local grain production.
In the form of wheat and millet, Gofio La Piña achieved Gold, like the Molino de Gofio El Sauzal, he also won a Gold in the category of other cereals and / or legumes or mixtures thereof and one silver for its production of Millo country. The second silver medal went to gofio wheat Imendi, Millet and barley.
In total they have been 21 the awards, whose distribution corresponds to nine for La Gomera-dos Grandes Oros, four gold, one silver and distinctions Best Canary Gofio Gofio Grain and Best Local-, nine to Tenerife-dos Grandes Oros, four gold, A silver, Best Picture and Best Presentation and Gofio IGP- and three for Gran Canaria- two gold medals and Best Gofio Ecological-.
In this first edition of the event they involved a total of 78 productions from a total of 25 Mills Archipelago, evaluated by twenty two days tasters during tasting.
For analysis of the system gofios blind tasting was used, of submitting the samples devoid of any element which recognizes the product- except for the valuation of the distinction of Best Picture and Presentation in the presentation and labeling of products-which guarantees the anonymity of participants and thoroughness of the tasting is judged.
During the course of these sessions tasters agreed to desatacar the high quality of the productions cereal landraces, What, mostly, They exceeded the previous stage and went on to the finals.
“gofio Gomero”
He began his activity in 2006, so it is one of the newest creation mills Archipelago. However, passing through the I Contest Gofio de Canarias has shown that youth is not incompatible with quality or the good work, by winning seven of the nine awards he has managed the island of La Gomera, including the grand prize of the contest, the Best Gofio Canary Islands 2015.
This mill produces 20.000 kilos monthly gofio, seven different varieties, marketed mainly in Gomera, Tenerife and Fuerteventura.
Responsible for, Rayco Herrera, the I Official Contest Gofio an incentive to improve product quality and significant support for producers, by spreading the competition carried out the winners and the promotion they get their gofios.