Puerta de las Villas Picual Temprano
Picual with an intense aroma of leaf and green almond, with notes of tomato plant and green wood. Aromatic herbs and spices emerge on the nose. On...
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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.
Puerta de las Villas is the brand of the San Vicente de Mogón cooperative, founded in 1966 by a hundred farmers. Today they are more than 1,300 agricultural professionals. Their olive groves are in the Sierra de las Villas, within the Sierra de Cazorla Natural Park — a Biosphere Reserve — between the Aguascebas and Guadalquivir rivers. The microclimate of that area gives the oil a character you cannot replicate.
Early harvest Picual, picked when the olive is still green. Immediate milling. Cold extraction. The protected ecosystem of the Biosphere Reserve is not a decorative detail: it is the environment that defines the oil's profile. Altitude, rivers, Mediterranean forest — everything plays a role.
The Evooleum guide — which evaluates 800 EVOOs from around the world — chose Puerta de las Villas as the best Picual in the world in 2022. Not the best in Jaén. Not the best in Spain. In the world. With 95 points out of 100. And it was not the only award: within 20 days they also won the Mario Solinas from the International Olive Council and Jaén Selección. This is the Picual that proves cooperatives can produce elite oil.
This Picual comes from the Sierra de las Villas, within the Cazorla Biosphere Reserve, and has a character that cannot be reproduced outside that area. The intense aroma of leaf and green almond with aromatic herbs and spices prepares you for what comes on the palate: an oil with presence, where bitterness and pungency are balanced masterfully, leaving that fresh sensation reminiscent of eucalyptus. This is the oil of more than 1,300 agricultural professionals united in a cooperative since 1966.