ABOUT US
We are grateful for your interest in our extra virgin olive oil. We hope you enjoy eating it as much as we do producing it.
La Casona is a family business, started in 1995. Our production is based on olive tree fields situated in the Mediterranean Woodland, at 1000 meters over sea level. To be precise, we are located in Pegalajar, Sierra de Mágina mountain range, Jaen Province.
All the olive oil that we produce is “extra virgin”. It proceeds from a biologic cultivation. Since 1998 we have the guarantee of the Andalousian Comitee of Ecologic Agriculture (in spanish: Comité Andaluz de de Agricultura Ecológica, Organismo de Certificación según Reglamento C.E.2092/91.)
La Casona is a family business, started in 1995. Our production is based on olive tree fields situated in the Mediterranean Woodland, at 1000 meters over sea level. To be precise, we are located in Pegalajar, Sierra de Mágina mountain range, Jaen Province.
All the olive oil that we produce is “extra virgin”. It proceeds from a biologic cultivation. Since 1998 we have the guarantee of the Andalousian Comitee of Ecologic Agriculture (in spanish: Comité Andaluz de de Agricultura Ecológica, Organismo de Certificación según Reglamento C.E.2092/91.)
Moreover, as the biggest of our production comes from a middle-sized exploitation in “Puerto Alto”, Pegalajar, we also hold the Protected Origin Denomination Certificate of Sierra Mágina, Jaén (in spanish: Certificación de la Denominación de Origen Protegida de Sierra Mágina, Jaén.)
As our exploitation is located at more than 1000 meters over the sea level, the temperature for the olive trees is a maximum limit in these latitudes. This is a risk for the olive grove, but it becomes a benefit because at this altitude the atmosphere is so clean that the solar radiation received for the leaves improves the growing process of the olives, giving us a higher content of fat acid and oleic acid in the fruits and a better taste of the olive oil obtained.
BIOLOGIC AGRICULTURE
In order to regain and keep the fertility of the piece of land we practice a site fertilization estrictely biologic with dung or by sowing a leguminous plant in winter season. In both cases, we let them grow from winter to spring.
We do not use any type of herbicide, the grass is our identity sign.
BIOLOGIC AGRICULTURE
In order to regain and keep the fertility of the piece of land we practice a site fertilization estrictely biologic with dung or by sowing a leguminous plant in winter season. In both cases, we let them grow from winter to spring.
We do not use any type of herbicide, the grass is our identity sign.
We spread homogeneously on the exploitation´s soil the marc and olive juice from the olive extraction process, and the waste from pruning, and all of that, along with the grass grown, is buried superficially when the dry season approachs.
We only extract the oil from our exploitation, everything else is returned to the land.
We don´t use any kind of insecticide. The only plague we control in order to have a fruit with quality and cleaning, is the olive fly, and we catch it with a selective and massive trap, without insecticides, just using an alimentary bait and an attraction pheromone that maintains the insect population in acceptable levels.
Finally, we process the olive instantly, at a low temperature, and we let the juice decant statically. After that, we microfilter the oils in order to separate only the water soluble products by a microfilter of stainless steel, which leaves them, intentionally, a little bit turbid to maintain the components which give them this extraordinary flavour. At the end, we classifie them and we put them in stainless steel tanks and we let them rest into a fresh and dark winery.
