This Arbequina does not come from Catalonia or Aragon, where everyone expects the variety to originate. It comes from super-intensive olive groves along the Guadalquivir, harvested in October while the olives are still green and milled within the first hours. Its location gives it a distinctive profile: the Guadalquivir basin produces Arbequinas with nuances you won't find in the northern Mediterranean.

It is a complex, sweet oil with no rough edges, produced with complete vertical integration. The kind of Arbequina that proves controlling the entire chain -- from grove to bottle -- makes all the difference, and that the type of cultivation does not determine quality.