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After a claim, we confirm by emailEverything here comes from public sources — award lists, certification registers, the territory inventories. The rest of the story — the family, the grove, the real age of the trees, this year's lab sheet — only the mill can tell, and it is the part buyers bid on.
Acushla is a Celtic word meaning beat of my heart, and the project of that name took shape in 2006 under Joaquim Moreira at Quinta do Prado, in Vila Flor, in the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro country of northern Portugal. The quinta covers close to 300 hectares. Fourteen of those hold a grove the producer describes as centenarian; another 200 carry newer planting, and between them stand roughly 70,000 trees, expected to give around 250,000 litres a year at maturity, which is why the producer describes Quinta do Prado as among the largest areas of organic production in the region. Everything is farmed organically, to both European and American rules, and the olives share the estate with an apiary, a composting system, a flock of about 300 sheep, vines and a pomegranate orchard.
The varieties are the region's own, cobrançosa, madural, verdeal and cordovil, bottled under the protected designation for Trás-os-Montes olive oil, and the Gold Edition line is drawn from the centenarian trees. The mill, which the producer states was the first in Portugal to hold FSSC 22000 food safety certification, presses everything on site, and Acushla is a member of the Extra Virgin Alliance.
The results have accumulated: Gold at Olive Japan in 2021 with the Toshiya Tada Sommelier Award, Gold at Italy's BIOL organic competition in 2022 and an Extra Gold there in 2024, and in 2026 golds at the London International Olive Oil Competition, at BIOL, at the Canadian EVOO competition and at TerraOlivo in Jerusalem, along with 63rd place in the EVOO World Ranking.
From the public record: acushla.com · aboutoliveoil.org
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