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Basilippo presses its oil at Hacienda Merrha, in the Los Alcores countryside between Carmona and El Viso del Alcor, in Seville province. The name is older than the farm: Basilippo was a Tartessian settlement of the Bronze Age, tenth to sixth centuries BC, believed to have stood between the two, and the mark on the label is the silhouette of a panathenaic amphora, the vessel of oil given to winners of the Panathenaic Games.
The family dates its olive growing to 1850. Oleomorillo S.L. has run the agricultural and production side since 1999, and Basilippo Calidad Gourmet S.L. the commercial side. Juan Antonio Morillo, a law graduate who trained in olive growing and oil technology at the Instituto de la Grasa in Seville, founded it and led production until 2015; Juana Roldán has been general manager since then.
The groves are set out plot by plot. Hacienda Merrha holds more than 6,000 Arbequina trees across 24 hectares of sandy loam and albero hills. El Pago de los Cerros Blancos, five hectares in the Vega de Carmona, carries 800 Manzanillo trees farmed organically on dry land, which the family says its grandfather Antonio Ruiz planted. La Merced, an old Mercedarian estate of 22 hectares at Alcalá de Guadaíra, holds 1,500 Picual and 6,500 Arbequina under intensive planting. Bottling and labelling are done by hand, and the design work has drawn its own recognition, including a gold and a special jury prize at the Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition in 2013 and best packaging at TerraOlivo in Israel in 2017.
From the public record: basilippo.com
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