Ingredient Spotlight

Ingredient Spotlight

Key facts about our award-winning olive oil

  • The arbequina olives are harvested here in the Priorat mountains of Catalunya in November.
  • They are picked and cold pressed on the same day, in our village cooperative mill. Speed is vital for quality.
  • We store the oil in the same room where it was pressed, until we are preparing a shipment. We bottle at the mill too.
  • It is 100 per cent, unblended arbequina extra virgin olive oil, pure and simple.
  • We work with 80 other families in the valley, some of whom only have a few trees, others who have hundreds. We have 110 trees.
  • The oil has an exceptionally low acidity of less than 0.2 per cent and is rich in antioxidants and nutrients.
  • At home keep your olive oil in a cool place out of direct sunlight, and decant what you need into a pourer. Our pourer lives in the middle of our table because it is a daily food, not a luxury.
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