Tasting Notes
Early Harvest Picual Organic EVOO October 2024 Single Estate Jaen Spain
Aroma:
This organic olive oil from Jaen offers a really green, fresh, and complex aroma of
mixed salad leaves and tomatoes on the vine mingled with sweet cox’s apple skins and lemon citrus tones.
Taste:
The taste, too, is essentially herbaceous in character with attractive bitter and peppery tones which, though quite strong, do not overwhelm the taste of salad leaves, bitter stalks, culinary herbs and tomatoes. All these flavours linger into the attractively long after taste.
Style:
This is a fairly robust but harmonious style of oil with extremely well balanced
bitterness and pepper.
Assessment:
This complex and characterful oil is suited for use in a wide range of culinary applications. It is a flavouring medium in its own right and will stand up to other robust ingredients, To appreciate the full flavour serve as a dip with vegetable cruditees or an interesting bread. However, it is not so strong that it will take over a dish made with more delicate ingredients.
Early Harvest Picual Organic EVOO October 2023 Single Estate Jaen Spain
Aroma:
An intense and complex aroma of well flavoured salad leaves leaps out from the bottle along with a touch of sorrel, tomatoes-on-the-vine and light citrus tones with flowery lemon and lime.
Taste:
The flavours in the mouth do not disappoint as they develop with the addition of mustard leaves, peppery watercress and a growing presence of really attractive tomato coulis. Bitterness and pepper come in to add to the complexity and all linger into the long fruity after
taste.
Style:
This is a medium to robust oil with extremely well balanced fruit, bitterness and pepper.
Assessment:
This is an excellent oil with an appealing aroma and characterful taste. It can be successfully combined with a wide range of other ingredients, used to make dips and to add an extra dimension to everything from soups and salads to stews, casseroles and pasta dishes.
Arbequina November 2023 Organic EVOO Single Estate Zaragoza Spain
Aroma:
Attractive and complex aroma of pears and sweet stone fruits with culinary herbs,
light nuts and lemon citrus tones.
Taste:
Similar flavours remain in the mouth with some meadowsweet hay and dried herbs.
Gentle bitterness gives way to a burst of quite fiery pepper which softens and lingers into a pleasant after taste of sweet fruits and light caramel fudge.
Style:
This is a delicate to medium style of oil with some well-balanced pepper and very little
bitterness.
Assessment:
This pleasing all-round oil should appeal to all but those who prefer a very robust oil. It offers a versatile cooking and flavouring ingredient in the kitchen and at the table. Use in baking and desserts as well as in savoury dishes.
