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Egitânia is the olive oil made by Real Idanha, in the historic village of Idanha-a-Velha, in the Beira Baixa. Ricardo Araújo settled at Ladoeiro, in the municipality of Idanha-a-Nova, in 2007, starting with organic strawberries and vegetables; Tiago Lourenço moved down from Almada in 2014 to take on the olives. Between them they work 180 hectares of traditional dry-farmed grove at Idanha-a-Velha, part of a 1,500-hectare property and planted at ten metres' spacing, about a hundred trees to the hectare, with a further 15 hectares at Ladoeiro. The varieties are the region's own: Galega, native to the Beira Baixa, with Bical and Cordovil from Castelo Branco.
The oil is certified organic and the ground is farmed on regenerative lines. Picking is by hand in mid-October, the fruit taken between green and lilac, and milling is done at the small municipal lagar in Idanha-a-Velha below 28°C to hold the antioxidants and polyphenols; the blend sets the fruit of Galega against the pepper and bitterness of Bical and Cordovil, and acidity is given as 0.2 per cent. Annual output runs to roughly four thousand litres. Six trees in the grove have been dated by a method developed at the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro and carried out by the firm Oliveiras Milenares, returning ages from 350 to 1,620 years with a stated margin of error of one to two per cent; those six are the fixed points of an oleotourism route planned through the village, each to be marked with its own history.
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