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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.
Pago Baldíos San Carlos presses from a single estate in the Valle del Tiétar, in the municipality of Majadas del Tiétar, Cáceres, its groves on the foothills of the Sierra de Gredos near the Monastery of Yuste, in La Vera. The producer dates its family's link to farming to the seventeenth century, and describes fields fed by meltwater off Pico Almanzor arriving along natural granite channels. The olives grow among raspberry canes, orange and cherry plantings, and the valley's microclimate lets picking begin fifteen days ahead of the usual date.
The rules the estate publishes are specific: nothing is gathered off the ground, irrigation and feeding are done selectively by drip line, fruit is milled within minutes of arriving, extraction is held below 26°C, and the oil is kept under a nitrogen atmosphere at a constant 16°C. Maximum acidity is given as 0.1 per cent for both the Arbequina and the Cornicabra.
Four labels come off that ground: Full Moon and Pago Baldío San Carlos, both soft Arbequina; Oro San Carlos, an Arbequina and Cornicabra coupage made only from fruit picked on the first day of harvest; and San Carlos Gourmet, mainly Cornicabra with a light touch of Arbequina. Alongside them sit Pedro Ximénez vinegars aged five or twelve years in American oak on the criaderas y soleras system. By the estate's own count the Arbequina has taken seven consecutive Extremadura gold medals and more than forty international awards, and Oro San Carlos placed in the Top 10 of the World's Best Olive Oils index for 2014.
From the public record: pagobaldiosancarlos.com
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