eoloe Pajarero
This Pajarera presents an intense aroma of green leaf and fennel, with notes of red berries and spices. On the palate it enters gently, then...
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Tasted blind, with professional method
Profiled 0–10 using the cobalt catavino — colour hidden, so nose and palate lead.
Sensory profile
Tasted by Mercedes Uceda
Aromatic intensities evaluated in a professional tasting. Exact values are part of the sensory consultancy service.
Meet your oil
From a single grove to a sealed cobalt bottle — every step, dated and measured.
This oil, in full
Everything behind the numbers — the varietal, the estate, the milling, and how to taste it.
Pajarera is a variety that 99% of olive oil consumers have never heard of. It grows in the Sierras Subbeticas, the Guadajoz Valley, and the Campina Sur of Cordoba. Its name comes from the fieldfares — birds that prefer these olives for their large size, their sweetness when ripe, and their high energy value. If the birds choose it, there must be a reason.
The Matilla Rubio-Chavarri family has managed the "Minguillao" estate in Priego de Cordoba for five generations. In 2018 they launched a pioneering project by planting Pajarera olive trees, and began marketing the single-variety under the eoloe brand in 2021. It is a personal and bold bet: working with a little-known variety when everyone else plays it safe with Picual or Arbequina.
Pajarera has a very limited cultivated area, concentrated in the province of Cordoba. The industry has focused on mass-market varieties and ignored it for decades. Producers like eoloe are recovering it for the gourmet market. An oil for EVOO explorers — if you already know Picual, Arbequina, and Hojiblanca, Pajarera is your next discovery.
Pajarera is a variety that 99% of olive oil consumers have never heard of. Fieldfares prefer it for its sweetness when ripe, and that already tells us something. This single-variety from the Matilla family has an unmistakable intense green leaf and fennel character with red berries — on the palate the transition from gentle to bitter and then to a chili-like pungency is one that leaves a lasting impression. It is the oil that allows me to talk about forgotten varieties that deserve to be rescued.