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
Region map · La Loma, Jaén
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.