Spanish oil
Olive oil is the main cooking oil in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
Extra virgin olive oil is mostly used as a salad dressing and as an ingredient in salad dressings. It is also used with foods to be eaten cold. If uncompromised by heat, the flavor is stronger. It also can be used for sautéing.
The taste of the olive oil is influenced not only by the soil on which the olive trees grow, but also by the moment when the olives have been harvested and ground.
Spain is the first world olive producer and, consequently, in the securing of virgin olive oil and its derivatives. During the campaign 2006/2007 there was prepared a whole of 850.000 tons of virgin olive oil. In Spain 32 Denominations of Origin exist Protégées (DOP) of virgin olive oil and extra, each of them ruled by their own articles of association, taking care of the quality of the oils for them produced and marking rules of cultivation, of collection, of making, of bottling and of labeling. All of them are compromised by the final quality of the product, across rigorous quality controls. Especially because for the long time there has been, in many countries, famous cases of corruption and adulteration of the olive oil.
The main olive varieties are a separate chapter, but it is necessary to quote at least those of major production or diffusion, for the olive geography of Spain. These are: picual, cornicabra, arbequina, manzanilla, hojiblanca, lechín (this one in its different areas, of which it takes the by-name: lechín of Granada, lechín of Seville, etc.), blanqueta, empeltre, pointed (it would cause of the Baena region), farga, villalonga and some others, up to giving a whole of more than 500, according to the catalog of the Advice Oleícola Internacional that grants Spain.
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