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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.
The olive oils made at Lagar Cartuxa, outside Évora, belong to a foundation. Vasco Maria Eugénio de Almeida, born in 1913 into a family holding extensive property in the Alentejo, created the Fundação Eugénio de Almeida in 1963, donated his entire estate to it and left it the task of promoting the cultural, educational, social and spiritual development of the Évora region; the wines and oils of the Adega and Lagar Cartuxa are what funds that work. Among the things he set in motion was the planting of a wide stretch of olive grove a few kilometres from the city, and the foundation now works around 400 hectares of it, its most cultivated varieties being Galega, Cobrançosa, Cordovil, Picual, Arbequina, Koroneiki and Verdeal.
Only fruit picked straight off the trees goes into the oil. Harvesting is both mechanical and manual so the olives can be selected, and every step from grove to dispatch is followed closely. The lagar is fully automated and extracts by physical means alone at low temperature, up to 26°C, with a treatment unit that returns its washing water to irrigating the grove. Three labels leave the mill — EA, Cartuxa and Álamos — the Cartuxa extra virgin drawn from single grove parcels and described by the producer as fresh and complex, with green-olive fruit, olive leaf and banana skin, closing on pecan. In 2005 that oil took first prize at the Concurso Nacional do Azeite, held at the VII Feira Nacional da Olivicultura in Campo Maior.
From the public record: cartuxa.pt · agroportal.pt
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