Picual Olive Oil – 500ml

Monterosa Picual – extra virgin olive oil

The Monterosa Picual 500ml olive oil is a single-varietal, extra virgin olive oil made from the Iberian Picual variety. It is intensely fruity and medium-bodied. Connoisseurs chose it as Portugal's best olive oil of the year at the Olivo Award 2016: bitter, spicy, and powerfully aromatic! Grass, artichoke, cardoon, green tomatoes, pepper, arugula, sage, lemon peel – a grand spectacle. An excellent Monterosa olive oil from hand-picked Portuguese olives.

Monterosa – Azeite de Oliva from the Algarve

Monterosa is a handcrafted family business in the eastern Algarve. Only about 7km from the cooling sea, a fresh breeze always blows here. In 1969, Detlev von Rosen emigrated from Sweden to Portugal to produce tomatoes and iceberg lettuce for the Northern European market. Later, he, and his company still today, was very successful in cultivating high-quality ornamental plants.

Since 2000, olive trees have been growing on 20 hectares. The previous summers were hot and dry, and the orange trees on the plantation needed huge amounts of water. (1 orange tree needs 1000 liters of water per week). So, olive trees were planted without further ado, with the aim of producing a particularly high-quality extra virgin olive oil, an Azeite de Oliva virgem extra. Five different olive varieties grow at Monterosa: Verdeal, Maçanilha, Picual, Cobrançosa, and Frantoio. However, olive trees have been cultivated and cared for in this special place for 2000 years, as a Roman trade route connecting Lisbon with Corduba passed through Moncarpacho. The in-house stone mill, however, is state-of-the-art. Without long transport routes, the hand-picked olives can be processed into the finest olive oil directly on the plantation.

The best way to discover the taste differences of the five varieties is to try all of them. The Verdeal olive oil is the mildest, greenest oil, followed by the Macanilha oil. Picual belongs to the medium-fruity varieties. The indigenous Portuguese variety Cobrançosa is the spiciest, most powerful variety with a good kick in the finish.

excellent olive oil – award-winning

In 2016, two Monterosa varieties won gold medals at the New York Olive Oil Competition: Picual and Verdeal. Maçanilha won the silver medal.
In total, 826 oils from 26 countries were available for selection in New York.

In Tokyo, Maçanilha, Picual, and Verdeal won gold, and Cobrançosa and Frantoio won silver. 600 olive oils from 21 countries participated in Olive Japan.

Participation of the five Monterosa oils was also very successful at the Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition: four won silver; Verdeal, Maçanilha, Picual, and Cobrançosa.

At the Olivo Award 2016 by Feinschmecker magazine, the Cobrançosa and Picual varieties are among the 100 best oils. Picual was chosen as Portugal's best oil of the year. A great success.