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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 Núñez de Prado family arrived in Baena, in Córdoba, in 1795, coming from La Rioja and working cereals and vines as well as olives. A phylloxera outbreak at the end of that century ruined the vineyards and pushed the family towards oil. Early in the twentieth century Francisco Núñez de Prado took over and rebuilt the works, finishing in 1944 with a mill of conical granite rollers, thermofilters and hydraulic presses able to grind 100,000 kg of olives a day, which the family calls one of the oldest still running in the Mediterranean. Below it sits a cellar of clay tinajas dated to 1795.
In 1986 Francisco's sons, Francisco Iván, Andrés, Antonio Luís and Felipe, joined the firm and began converting the groves to organic growing, work led by Andrés, an agricultural engineer who dropped insecticides, pesticides and synthetic fertilisers. Three years later, in 1989, the certificate came from CAAE, the Comité Andaluz de Agricultura Ecológica, among the first held by any olive-growing firm in Spain; the same year it began bottling oil from its own harvest.
Andalucía Ecológica puts the groves at around 700 hectares and some 100,000 trees, worked by the seventh generation. The oils are certified within the Baena protected designation of origin, whose council lists Picudo, Picual and Hojiblanco among its principal varieties, and which Francisco Iván served as vice-chairman and then chairman between 1997 and 2016. Flor de Aceite, the flagship, is the fraction that seeps through a filter by gravity before any pressing, at more than eleven kilograms of olives per litre.
From the public record: nunezdeprado.com · dobaena.com · andaluciaecologica.com
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