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.
Marqués de Griñón's oil comes off the Valdepusa estate at Malpica de Tajo, in Toledo province, ground the Falcó family has held since 1292. Wine came first: in 2003 Dominio de Valdepusa became the first single-estate pago in Spain to earn national Vino de Pago status. The olive planting followed the same single-estate logic. In 1995 and 1996 a hundred hectares of semi-intensive grove went in at three hundred trees to the hectare, drip-irrigated, planted to arbequina and picual. A mill was built on the property in 2002 and took its first crop that year, which is what puts the oil in the aceite de pago category: grown, milled and bottled in one place.
Picking is by hand with vibrating combs to keep the fruit whole, and each variety gets a window of only eight to ten days. Milling is held at around 22°C, and the oil goes into stainless steel inerted with nitrogen before bottling. The estate bottles single-variety arbequina, picual and cornicabra, and blends the three into Oleum Artis, which began as a picual and arbequina coupage before cornicabra was added. Carlos Falcó, the Marqués de Griñón, went on to found Grandes Pagos de Olivar, the association of Spanish estate-bottling oil producers to which the property belongs.
From the public record: grandespagosdeolivar.com · foodswinesfromspain.com · en.wikipedia.org
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