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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.
Cortijo de Suerte Alta sits on the right bank of the Guadajoz, beside the village of Albendín in the municipality of Baena, Córdoba. In 1924 the marqueses de Bedmar began turning the property from dehesa and cereal into olive grove, planting three-footed trees in a staggered pattern thirteen metres apart at seventy-five trees to the hectare, and mixing picudo, hojiblanco and picual through the rows as was then the custom, to help pollination and even out alternate bearing. Fruit went to the mill in the estate's own working hamlet and to a second family mill at nearby Cabra.
Their grandson Manuel Heredia Halcón, marqués de Prado, took charge in 1986 and finished the planting with single-trunk trees on a seven-by-seven-metre grid, averaging 205 trees to the hectare. Conversion to organic growing under the CAAE began in 1996, along with the drip irrigation works. Suerte Alta now runs 255 hectares of grove, 80 per cent of it traditional and described by the producer as practically century-old across a large part of the farm, for an average 250,000 kg of oil a year. A new mill went up in 2006 at the centre of the estate beside the cortijo.
The oils carry DOP Baena certification, with the regulatory council analysing each tank, alongside organic certification under the CAAE, USDA NOP and JAS. Coupage Natural took an Extragold at BIOL Italia in 2026 and a Gold at the thirty-third DOP Baena quality awards the same year, and Marqués de Prado a Gold at the Japan Olive Oil Prize in 2025.
From the public record: suertealta.es
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