Bottle photo
O-Med Picual
Picual picked green in the last week of October and milled within about three hours, at a mill built inside the grove itself and run on solar power. Joint-fifth in the World’s Best Olive Oils 2025/26.
The facts
| Cultivar | 100% Picual |
|---|---|
| Harvest | Last week of October, green fruit |
| Polyphenols | Not published |
| Free acidity | 0.1% |
| Extraction | Cold; milled roughly 3 hours after picking, mill inside the grove |
| Estate | 200 ha at Ácula; drip irrigation, biomass from olive stones |
| Formats | 500 ml UV-blocking recycled glass; 250 ml and 1 L tins |
Awards
5th · WBOO 2025/26Grand Prize · Mario Solinas 2017Best Spanish EVOO · Alimentos de España 2022/23No. 1 worldwide · Der Feinschmecker 2021
Where it's from
Region map · Granada
Granada is not Jaén: fewer trees, higher ground, later harvests as a rule. O-Med works against that by picking in a three-to-four-day window at the end of October and milling immediately.