Prados de Olivo

Prados de Olivo Olive Oil

The Extra Virgin Olive Oil Prados de Olivo is a superior category juice and is obtained directly from olives and only by mechanical procedures. Buying Prados de Olivo olive oil guarantees you to enjoy the highest quality EVOO for your kitchen. It is an ideal extra virgin for frying or cooking, or taking raw with toast or dressing salads, for example.

Origin and production

The olives that are used to produce this olive oil come from olive groves that are found in the Sierras Subbéticas Natural Park.

Due to the characteristics of this Natural Park, the mountain olive grove predominates on its land. This mountainous terrain and its climate make this olive oil a very unique and highly valued juice.

Likewise, the olives that are selected to produce this EVOO are of the Picuda, Hojiblanca and Picual olive varieties. The olives are harvested mature and thus their fruity flavor is light, especially recommended for cooking or frying.

Once the olives arrive at the oil mill, they are ground, and then the oil is extracted and filtered. Finally, it is stored in stainless steel tanks so that the juice does not lose its properties.

Cooperativa La Purísima de Priego de Córdoba

The Cooperativa La Purísima is a company that is in the municipality of Priego de Córdoba (Córdoba), right next to the Sierras Subbéticas Natural Park. And they are part of this more than nine hundred cooperative members in the area and that together they harvest an average annual production of about fifteen thousand tons of olives.

This cooperative not only produces the brand of extra virgin olive oil Prados de Olivo. El Empiedro is its most famous brand. It is a Premium extra virgin that complies with the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) of Priego de Córdoba. In addition, he has won numerous national and international competitions.

El Empiedro has ranked in a very relevant way in the famous World’s Best Olive Oil world ranking. In 2019 it was ranked as the seventh best extra virgin olive oil in the world. And in previous years he also held similar positions.

Another of the brands produced by the Cooperativa La Purísima is Bajondillo, although this olive oil is only virgin, not extra virgin.