Empeltre oil, a extra virgin olive oil made with “empeltre” olives. This Spanish varietal is perfect olive oil for everyday use in your kitchen. With a fresh and soft aroma.
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Summary: Empeltre olive oil is extra virgin olive oil made from empeltre olives. This Spanish varietal has a soft and fresh aroma. Its intensidy is medium. Also, we offer for sale in our store inLas Rozas de Madrid.
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1. Features of the Empeltre variety
Let’s see the most important characteristics of empeltre extra virgin olive oil.
a) Agronomy:
The empeltre olive trees are vigorous with a dense crown. They are very productivity and its harvest starts after arbequina trees. The olive is of medium size with little resistance to detachment. Consequently, this olive trees are great for its harvest mechanization.
Its olives has a medium size and the can be used for table olives.
b) Oil:
The empeltre extra virgin olive oil is distinguished by its great smoothness. In tasting, fruity flavors of green apple and vanilla are appreciated, with no spiciness or bitterness.
Its content of oleic acid, a monounsaturated fatty acid is medium, high in polyunsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants. For this reason, empeltre olive oil has a medium stability.
c) Where does it grow?
The empetre olive trees arr mainly cultivated in Aragon in Northern of Spain and Balearic Island in Eastern of Spain.
d) Curiosities
The name of Empeltre come from the word “Empelt”. This wor mean grafting and it has the meaning of the best way of multiplying this variety of olive tree.
2. Recommendations:
This oil is ideal everyday oil to use in salad dressings, for baking and cooking. Also, great chefs recomend this variety for confectionery and mayonnaise.
An ideal extra virgin olive oil for those looking for very mild olive oil flavours.
3. The best empeltre olive oil
We collaborate with the Olive Oil Cooperative of Valdealgorfa, which is located in Aragón. A cooperative that produces extra virgin olive oil through respectful and sustainable agricultural practices. Its and our main objective is to protect the environment, olive groves, and promote diversity.
Also, the empeltre variety is protected by the Designations of Origin of Bajo Aragon, Navarre and La Rioja. All these regions are in Northern of Spain which produce also extra virgin olive oil from empeltre empeltre variety.
We visited several mills and cooperatives under this Denomination or Orgin. We work with the Valdealgorfa cooperative because it is a small local cooperative that produces excellent olive oil.
This cooperative offer its olive oil in different formats. but we work only with glass bottles. If you want bigger formats, please contact with us.
