Municipality of Fundão, region of Castelo Branco, Portugal
A hectare and a half.
The quinta sits in the municipality of Fundão, in Castelo Branco. Hard light, cold nights, and more rock in the ground than earth. Olives want exactly that.
The trees
Three hundred years, and counting.
Seventy trees, some young and some very old. The oldest have been standing at least three hundred years and you cannot get your arms around them. The young ones were put in so there is still a grove here long after the old ones have gone.
The orchard
Everything else that grows here.
The olives are not the only thing growing. Cherries, oranges, apples, pears, plums, figs and loquats — all of it eaten here. A quinta this size feeds itself first.
- cherries
- oranges
- apples
- pears
- plums
- figs
- loquats
1.5
hectares
the whole quinta
70
olive trees
tended by hand
300+
years
the oldest of them
2
varieties
Galega and Cordovil
<100
litres
a harvest, all of it
500
ml
one bottle size, for now