The Quinta
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.
Municipality of Fundão, region of Castelo Branco, Portugal
Foothills of the Serra da Estrela
Granite soil · Cold nights
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
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