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.
Masía el Altet is named for what it is: a masia is the farmhouse-and-land unit of the former Kingdom of Aragón, and altet is Valencian for a rise in the ground, a diminutive of alt. The estate lies in the Alcoy mountains of Alicante province, in the valley of Polop, inside the Font Roja and Sierra de Mariola nature reserves, more than 800 metres up and thirty kilometres from the Mediterranean as the crow flies, with cold winters and a strong daily temperature swing that the producer credits for polyphenol levels.
The producer's own account places olive trees on the estate since the seventeenth century, generation after generation, until Jorge Petit took the family property on and moved his household there. Across its 70 hectares he catalogued around 2,000 trees of the native Genovesa, Blanqueta and Alfafarenca varieties, which the farm describes as having stood there for centuries, and from 1995 added 3,000 Arbequina, 7,000 Picual and 2,000 Changlot Real, bringing the grove to 14,000 trees on a seven-by-seven-metre grid. From 2006 those trees have supplied four bottlings: High Quality, Premium, Special Selection and High End.
High Quality was the first coupage — 60 per cent Picual, 20 per cent Arbequina, the rest in the local varieties — picked at pre-envero inside a window of no more than ten days at the turn of October into November, and bottled under 0.15 per cent acidity. It took First Prize at the International Olive Council's Mario Solinas award in 2008. The estate's own tally now runs past 600 international awards.
From the public record: masiaelaltet.com
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