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Deleyda is named for Leyda, a valley that opens between the coastal range and the Pacific about 90 kilometres south of Santiago. The producer traces the name to the railway that ran between San Antonio and Santiago from 1912 to 1987, and to a local contraction of the Spanish phrase for on the way. The company was set up as Olivos Ruta del Sol in 2005 by five partners, Pedro Hurtado, Samuel de la Sotta, Joaquín Holzapfel, Cristián Silva and Cristián Swett, and the mill they built at Leyda, visible for kilometres from the highway, is the shape drawn on the label.
Two orchards feed it. La Marquesa de Leyda, in the Valparaíso region, covers 205 hectares, planted from 2006 with a first harvest in 2008, and is built to take two million kilos of olives a year. El Cerrillo, at Pumanque in the O'Higgins region, has 190 hectares planted from late 2008 and capacity for 700,000 litres a year, with its own mill on site. Six varieties are grown across the two: Arbequina, Arbosana, Coratina, Frantoio, Koroneiki and Leccino.
The competition record runs long. Deleyda oils have taken Gold at the NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition every year from 2019 to 2025, three of them in 2025 alone; Flos Olei has scored the producer 98 out of 100 in each edition from 2022 to 2026; and Chile's Guía Oliva put the Fine Selection top of its 2020 tasting at 97 points. Food safety is certified to ISO 22000:2018 by Bureau Veritas.
From the public record: deleyda.com · bestoliveoils.org
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