OUR OLIVE OIL IS REAL

0% blended, this means that 100% of the juice in the bottle is Extra Virgin Olive Oil from picual olives or Extra Virgin Olive Oil from royal olives, from the top to the bottom of the bottle.

0% refined, this means that the bottle does't contain any percentage of juice from rotten olives. The olive oil that is refined is typically obtained from olives picked from the ground. As a result that olive oil is not good for consumption so it needs to be refined like other vegetables oils.

0% infused, so far we are focused on the extra virgin olive oil taste itself as a juice. The taste of juice from royal olives is totally different from picual olives. 

It is called olive juice because the olives are fruits and the juice is cold pressed using mechanical means just like homemade orange juice.

PICUAL VARIETY comes from a more common tree in the mountains of Cazorla. This variety is one of the major varieties of olive oil produced in Spain, mostly all of its production is in the Province of Jaen.

The majority of the trees that my family cultivate are the Picual variety. Even though 10,000 olive trees are not too many, we can't harvest them in only 2 weeks so we start harvesting in early October at an optimal state of maturity and continue harvesting until December. 

The fruit produces real olive juice with some very particular organoleptic characteristics, bringing out the intensity of its fruity flavour and the complexity of its aromas: herbal and fruity, rising up in the mouth, with an exceptional balance between bitter and tangy. 

We harvest the olives and transport them from the field to the mill continuously in short periods several times daily, so that they are milled in less than 6 hours from their harvesting. As a result of this urgency in the handling and processing of the fruit, we are able to ensure the freshness of our oil.

The oil is cold extract at a temperature that never exceeds 22°C and it is conveniently filtered.

In early October the olives are unripe and totally green. These olives are unripe and without much juice in them, but the juice from the unrip green olives is of the highest quality. From these olives we need to harvest 8kgs of unripe olives to get 1 litre of Premium Premium Picual Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil Professional tasters are the ones who normally recognize these olive oils and normally these are the olive oils that win international awards.

As the weeks are passing the olives are changing colour to a more purple colour and ripe state. This is our Picual Extra Virgin Olive Oil. In comparison, to produce 1 litre of this Extra Virgin Olive Oil we need to harvest just 4kgs of ripe olives.