Jabalcuz Gran Selección
An intensely green-fruity extra virgin, made from hand-selected olives harvested in October at the optimal moment of ripeness and milled...
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Taste it blind.
Like the panel.
Cobalt glass hides the colour so nose and palate lead. Every bottle ships with its lab numbers and its story.
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.
Jabalcuz is not a boutique mill. It is a cooperative born in 2004 from the merger of two historic cooperatives in Los Villares, Jaen: San Juan Bautista and Nuestra Senora del Rosario. This season alone it has produced 3.6 million kilos of oil, of which 2.5 million are extra virgin and virgin. Those numbers matter: they prove that scale and quality can go hand in hand when a cooperative does things right.
Early-harvest Picual, olives picked in October and milled immediately. The cooperative sits in Los Villares, at the foot of the Sierra de la Pandera, at an altitude that makes a real difference in polyphenol concentration. The Gran Seleccion is the finest selection from that harvest -- the batches the technical team sets aside as exceptional.
Three consecutive Jaen Seleccion awards -- 2024, 2025 and 2026 -- and a Mario Solinas 2025 from the International Olive Council in the Medium Green category. The Mario Solinas is the world's benchmark competition for olive oil. That a village cooperative wins it says everything about what can be achieved when rigour stands behind scale.
Jabalcuz proves that a cooperative can produce competition-grade oils. This Gran Seleccion has a voluptuous nose where I recognise tomato plant, artichoke, green almond, fig tree -- all at once, all beautifully integrated. On the palate the presence is commanding, with that medium-high bitterness and the progressive peppery finish that harmonise with the fruitiness. Selected olives, committed growers, loving yet technical craftsmanship, careful lot selection. That simple, that difficult. Proud to have contributed my grain of sand to this project once again this year.