Bottle photo
Balcón del Guadalquivir
An "extratemprano" Picual from a Baeza cooperative whose members work around 2,100 hectares on La Loma, and whose plant is sized so the whole day’s harvest is milled the same day. Joint-thirty-first in the World’s Best Olive Oils 2025/26.
The facts
| Cultivar | Picual (retailer and press information; the co-op does not state it) |
|---|---|
| Harvest | Extra-early, green fruit picked before véraison |
| Polyphenols | Not published |
| Free acidity | Not published |
| Mill | The day’s harvest is milled the same day; own bottling line |
| Cooperative | ~500 members, ~2,100 ha, 200,000–240,000 trees |
| Formats | 250 ml and 500 ml glass; 2 L and 5 L PET; 1 L and 3 L tins |
Awards
31st · WBOO 2025/26Jaén Selección 2026Jaén Selección 2020 and 2022Mario Solinas 2021
Where it's from
The cooperative takes its name from its old site by Baeza’s watchtower, looking out over the Guadalquivir valley. It moved to a modern plant in 2004–05 but kept the name.
In our shop instead
We do not stock Balcón del Guadalquivir. These are the closest bottles our retail partner carries.
