Seventy trees, and the two of us.

Extra virgin olive oil from a hectare and a half in the mountains of central Portugal. The two of us grow it, pick it by hand and bottle it — under a hundred litres a harvest.

Municipality of Fundão, region of Castelo Branco, Portugal
Galega & Cordovil · Harvested by hand
Bottled 500ml

The quinta

A working farm that makes one oil.

Everything we grow goes into one oil. It comes off seventy trees in the municipality of Fundão, in the foothills of the Serra da Estrela, and it is pressed once a year. Two varieties go into it: Galega for the fruit, Cordovil for the pepper.

In numbers

1.5hectares the whole quinta
70olive trees tended by hand
300+years the oldest of them
2varieties Galega and Cordovil
<100litres a harvest, all of it
500ml one bottle size, for now

Plates

Harvesting by hand from a ladder, nets spread across the ground below — **Plate i**Nets down, ladders up. The fruit comes off over a few weeks in autumn.

Seven wicker baskets filled with green, red and black olives on the grass — **Plate ii**Green, red and black in the same baskets. Ripeness decides the pepper.

A bottle at the mossy foot of an ancient olive trunk — **Plate iii**The oldest trees here have been standing at least three hundred years.

The taste

Fruity first. Then the pepper.

The full tasting note →

To buy

Every bottle placed by hand.

A harvest gives us under a hundred litres, all of it off these seventy trees. Every bottle is spoken for one at a time, by the two of us, which is why you ask us for it rather than click a button.

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