Olive Auction built this page from public records so buyers can find the estate. Its own people can claim it at no cost — complete the story, list lots, answer buyers.
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.
Azeitona Verde began in 2003 as an organic smallholding at Marvão, in the Alto Alentejo. The farm lies in the Serra do Sapoio, on a slope below the village, at 600 metres inside the protected area of the Serra de São Mamede natural park — twenty hectares in all, ringed by olive trees the producer describes as centenary and millenary. About six hectares of that is ancestral olive grove, worked organically under PT-BIO 08 certification and watered by nothing but rain. Some of the trees the farm attributes to Roman planting, tended afterwards by the Moors for more than four hundred years, a claim it puts forward without documentation. Galega and Cordovil, both native to the Alto Alentejo, go into Azeite Castiço, picked by hand and bottled at 500 ml in dark glass with acidity below 0.4 per cent.
The mill was built to the same brief as the farming. More than ninety per cent of its materials are recyclable or renewable, with reinforced European pine in place of steel and concrete, and daylight admitted without the heat so the temperature inside holds steady through summer; it runs on solar power and was set up under HACCP food-safety certification from its first campaign, taking organic fruit only. Leaves stripped during milling go to compost, the stones to boiler fuel. At the London International Olive Oil Competitions in 2024 the oil took a Gold in the health category and an Olive Oil Star, with a Silver at the Amsterdam International Olive Oil Competitions.
From the public record: azeitonaverde.pt · jornalaltoalentejo.sapo.pt
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