Empeltre extra virgin olive oil
Nerea Bel in Calaceite · 0.5 L bottle
£15.50
VAT included
In London you can find it in these shops.
Before you order it to your door, see if a shop is near you. They keep it for you and you pick it up when it suits you.
- Colmado Hackney
Chatsworth Road 61, London
Tue to Fri 12:00 to 20:00 · Sat to Sun 11:00 to 17:00
- Despensa Northcote
Northcote Road 74, London
Mon to Fri 10:00 to 19:00 · Sat 10:00 to 17:00
If there is no shop near you, we send it to your door.
Delivery to United Kingdom: £17.10, 4 to 6 days.
Delivery already includes customs and taxes. You pay nothing more when it arrives.
Who makes it
Nerea Bel left Calaceite at eighteen to study agricultural engineering in Lleida. She came back in 2023, the year we bought El Plano de Santa Bárbara, and she has run the farm ever since. She is twenty-nine and by far the youngest member of the co-op.
The 17 hectares belonged to Ramón, who worked them for forty-two years. He showed her where the frost lands first and which trees give the most. She showed him the water meter on every block. Ramón still drops by every other day and takes his oil home.
Nerea says she stays because here you can see what you do. Water well and the olives show it. Get them to the mill the same day and the oil shows it. Every bottle sold abroad pays for a little of her never having to leave again.
How it is made
01
The olives are picked in November with a shaker and an umbrella, so they never touch the ground.
02
They reach the mill in Calaceite the same day and are washed in cold water.
03
They are crushed and slowly mixed below 27°C so the oil keeps its aroma.
04
The oil rests in steel tanks and is bottled in batches, with the season on the label.
Matarraña and Teruel
Calaceite is a stone village on top of a ridge, right up against Catalonia. All around it there are empeltre olives, almond trees and low scrub as far as the eye can see.
What we are allowed to say
Olive oil is high in monounsaturated fat. Replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats in the diet contributes to the maintenance of normal blood cholesterol levels.
What they do so it lasts
- 01The drip lines have moisture probes and the trees get water when the soil asks for it.
- 02The old open pond is now a covered cistern, so no water is lost to the sun.
- 03In winter the mill is heated by burning the stones of its own olives.
Where your money goes
- Nerea Bel
- £6.90
- 49%
- Transport
- £0.70
- 5%
- @seis
- £2.50
- 18%
- The shop or home delivery
- £3.90
- 28%
Out of £14.10, the price before VAT. The VAT, £1.40, goes to the state.
What the label says
- Format
- 0.5 L bottle
- Ingredients
- Extra virgin olive oil, 100% empeltre.
- Allergens
- No allergens that need declaring.
- Storage
- Away from light and heat, with the cap on.
- Best before
- 18 months from bottling. Once open, best within three months.
- Seal
- PDO Aceite del Bajo Aragón
- Made in
- Calaceite, Matarraña and Teruel
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