Bottle photo
Oleícola Jaén Picual Especial
The premium Picual of a Baeza mill that buys fruit from growers across the Jaén countryside and picks its premium lots green in October. Joint-thirteenth in the World’s Best Olive Oils 2025/26.
The facts
| Cultivar | 100% Picual |
|---|---|
| Name | The producer’s own shop lists it as "AOVE Picual Selección"; exporters use "Especial" |
| Harvest | Green olives, October–November; 2025/26 is the current release |
| Polyphenols | Not published |
| Free acidity | Not published |
| Extraction | Cold pressed within hours of harvest, mechanical only |
| Formats | 500 ml glass; Picual also in 3 L bag-in-box and 5 L |
Awards
13th · WBOO 2025/265th best mill in the world · WBOO 2025/26
Where it's from
Region map · Baeza, Jaén
Baeza sits on La Loma, the ridge between the Guadalquivir and the Guadalimar. Jaén makes more olive oil than any country except Spain itself, and almost all of it is Picual.