Bottle photo
Olibaeza Premium Picual
The premium bottling of a Baeza cooperative founded in 1951, whose 1,263 members work over half a million trees. Picked in early October while the fruit is still green. Joint-seventeenth in the World’s Best Olive Oils 2025/26.
The facts
| Cultivar | 100% Picual |
|---|---|
| Farming | Producción Integrada (Integrated Production); not organic |
| Harvest | Early October, before the fruit turns purple |
| Polyphenols | Not published |
| Free acidity | Not published by the producer; a retailer states 0.1% |
| Cooperative | 1,263 members, 554,000+ trees, ~10.5 million kg of oil a year |
| Formats | 500 ml glass in two bottle designs; 1 L tin at retail |
Awards
17th · WBOO 2025/26EVOOLEUM 2019Mario Solinas 2019Sol d’Oro 2019
Where it's from
Region map · Baeza, Jaén
Baeza is a UNESCO Renaissance town sitting on an ocean of olive trees. Cooperatives handle most of that fruit, and the premium lines are how they prove that co-op scale need not mean anonymous oil.