Spain · Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha Oil Intensity not published

Cornicabra

also called Cornezuelo, Ornal, Cornicabra Negra

The variety of the central Spanish plateau, and the highest-phenol of the big four Spanish cultivars in the one study that measured them side by side. It has stayed home: adapted to cold, dry, poor soils, it has essentially no commercial presence outside Spain.

Oilprimary use of the fruit

Hightypical polyphenol band

Fills when the library holds an oilcomputed, not authored

Olive grove in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha — a generated illustration, not a photograph of a specific grove

Reference card

Also called	Cornezuelo, Ornal, Cornicabra Negra
Main regions	Toledo, Ciudad Real, Madrid, Badajoz, Cáceres
Purpose	Oil
Oleic acid	~79%
Harvest	Late flowering and late ripening
Shelf stability	Very high — over 55 h Rancimat
Watch out for	Fruit clings hard; mechanical harvest is difficult

Shelf stability is the published Rancimat induction time where one exists. It is measured per variety; smoke point is not, so it is not listed.

In the grove

Grove — placeholder

Fruit at harvest — placeholder

Aroma and flavour descriptors

1Green apple
2Kiwi
3Avocado
4Fresh herbs
5Green almond

The DOP Montes de Toledo specification states only "medium to intense" for fruity, bitter and pungent, with no medians. The descriptors above are the regulatory council’s own. Our panel has not scored this cultivar.

Ordered by how often each recurs in the published varietal literature, not by measured intensity. Our panel has not scored a monovarietal Cornicabra oil, and no sensory panel data for it is published. 40 of the 40 varieties here read the same way.

Oils in the library No Cornicabra oils reviewed yet

This shelf fills when the panel scores an oil made from this variety. 19 of the 40 varieties here are in the same state today.

Cornicabra against the other Spain varieties

Open in compare

Variety	Origin region	Used for	Polyphenols	Shelf stability
Picual	Jaén, Andalusia	Oil	300–700 mg/kg	Very high — over 55 h Rancimat
Arbequina	Les Garrigues, Lleida, Catalonia	Oil	200–230 mg/kg	Low — 29.8 h Rancimat
Hojiblanca	Lucena, Córdoba, Andalusia	Dual-purpose	280–820 mg/kg	High — Rancimat mean 73 h, falling with ripeness
Cornicabra	Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha	Oil	~630 mg/kg	Very high — over 55 h Rancimat
Picudo	Córdoba, Andalusia	Dual-purpose	Not published	Low (nursery-level assessment; no Rancimat figure published)
Manzanilla de Sevilla	Guadalquivir valley, Seville	Table	Not published	Not published
Empeltre	Bajo Aragón, Ebro valley	Dual-purpose	Not published	Not published
Royal de Cazorla	Sierra de Cazorla, Jaén	Oil	~156 mg/kg (single study)	Not published

Sources

Every figure on this page carries a source. Where we could not find one we say so rather than estimating. Corrections are welcome and credited.

Map · Montes de Toledo

Montes de Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha · 39.6° N, 4.2° W