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
Iván Garcés is thirty-four and has a small shed in Alcañiz that his parents set up in 1979. Pili and Toño cured black olives for half of Bajo Aragón. Iván went off to work in a car factory in Zaragoza and had no plans to come back.
In 2022 Toño retired and the shed was going to close. Iván spent a whole weekend doing the sums. On the Monday he rang the factory and told them he was leaving. His mother still comes in every morning to taste the brine.
He says the tinned black olives in the supermarket are green ones painted black, and that it gets under his skin. His ripen on the tree until January. When someone in Hamburg opens a jar, Iván knows no machine picked those olives.
How it is made
01
The empeltre olives are left on the tree until they ripen black, in January.
02
They cure in brine for four to six months, with no caustic soda.
03
They are rinsed, drained and dressed with a splash of olive oil from the area.
04
They are packed in glass jars and pasteurised so they keep without a fridge.
Matarraña and Teruel
Alcañiz is the capital of Bajo Aragón, with a castle above it and the river Guadalope below. The empeltre groves run right up to the last houses.
What we are allowed to say
A real black olive ripens on the tree and the colour is its own. Many tinned black olives are green ones darkened with air and iron salts. These have none of that.
What they do so it lasts
- 01The brine is filtered and used again for the next batch.
- 02He buys his olives from twelve growers in Bajo Aragón, all less than 30 kilometres away.
- 03The jar is glass and the lid is metal with no bisphenol lining.
Where your money goes
- Iván Garcés
- £2.30
- 49%
- Transport
- £0.20
- 5%
- @seis
- £0.80
- 18%
- The shop or home delivery
- £1.30
- 28%
Out of £4.70, the price before VAT. The VAT, £0.50, goes to the state.
What the label says
- Format
- 350 g jar
- Ingredients
- Black empeltre olives, water, salt and extra virgin olive oil.
- Allergens
- No allergens that need declaring.
- Storage
- In the cupboard. Once open, keep in the fridge, covered in their liquid.
- Best before
- 24 months from packing.
- Seal
- No seal
- Made in
- Alcañiz, Matarraña and Teruel
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