Spain · Bajo Aragón, Ebro valley Dual-purpose Intensity not published

Empeltre

also called Aragonesa, Injerto, Terra Alta, Mallorquina

The olive of the Ebro valley, and the one whose name is an agronomic fact: empeltre means "grafted" in Aragonese, because the variety will not root from cuttings in any practical way. Its oil is yellow, smooth and almost without bitterness.

Dual-purposeprimary use of the fruit

Not publishedtypical polyphenol band

Fills when the library holds an oilcomputed, not authored

Olive grove in Bajo Aragón, Ebro valley — a generated illustration, not a photograph of a specific grove

Reference card

Also called	Aragonesa, Injerto, Terra Alta, Mallorquina
Main regions	Bajo Aragón, La Rioja, Navarra, Terra Alta, Balearics
Purpose	Dual-purpose — oil and black table olives
Oil yield	~18.3% of fruit weight
Harvest	October to mid-December in Aragón
Propagation	Grafted — rooting from cuttings is very poor
Analytical note	Δ7-stigmastenol can exceed EU sterol limits in genuine oil

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

1Sweet
2Aromatic
3Ripe fruit
4No bitterness

General catalogue description. No published panel medians exist for monovarietal Empeltre.

Ordered by how often each recurs in the published varietal literature, not by measured intensity. Our panel has not scored a monovarietal Empeltre 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 Empeltre 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.

Empeltre 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 · Bajo Aragón

Bajo Aragón, Ebro valley · 41.0° N, 0.2° W