Our Early Harvest Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil is produced by the Luque family in the beautiful village of Castro del Rio in Cordoba (Andalusia) Spain. Through generations (7th gene-ration as olive growers and 5th as olive millers), our family has been growing the olive trees in their own olive groves and in late 80’s has chosen the organic path in order to produce the highest quality. Our organic olives are picked early in the season while still green to produce the prized ‘early harvest’ oil. Once harvested, the olives are crushed within hours and this oil is obtained with ideal low temperatures to preserve the quality, taste and aroma of the olives.
TASTING NOTES: Medium intense fruitiness of green olive with little hints of ripeness. Well-balanced with green aromatic notes of herbs and almond and apple notes. Sweet in mouth at the beginning, soft bitterness and slightly spicy at the end. Aftertaste of almonds and herbs, well balanced in all its at-tributes.
LUQUE ECOLOGICO S.L. is an oil mill where high quality extra virgin olive oil is obtained from Organic that began its activity in 1999. It is located in Castro del Río (CORDOBA), in the heart of Andalusia, one of the towns that make up the Caliphate Route between Córdoba and Granada.
After generations of olive and milling tradition (7th as olive growers and 5th as millers) our family has reached the organic cultivation of the olive grove as the maximum expression of the concept of food quality and respect for the environment, developing and controlling the complete process from the organic production of the olive grove until extraction in our oil mill and packaging.Our entry into the organic sector as olive growers back in the 80's was not the result of a fashion or snobbery but of the conviction of our founder, José Antonio Luque Serrano, father of the current owners of the company (Juan Manuel and Belén) in changing the way of producing olives and oil.
At LUQUE ECOLOGICO S. L. we are convinced that sustainability is a key aspect of our business strategy and, therefore, we consider it vital to evaluate the impact on the environment of our products and activities from the perspective of the value chain. Already in 2008 in our company we decided that the ecological origin of our product was not enough to be acting responsibly, so we decided to develop a Carbon Footprint calculation protocol: “CO2 Verified ”
In 2015 we decided to take another step in this direction, adopting the “Environmental Product Declaration” (EPD), as it is a much more ambitious certification in terms of the environmental parameters that are taken into account when assessing the activity of the company, from the agronomic management of the olive grove with Organic Agriculture practices to the putting into circulation of the product.Our product has received numerous prestigious national and international awards since 2006 and is currently successfully positioned in more than 20 countries.