In the search for liquid gold
In November, the olive collection season begins until it lasts until the end of December.
Today, the best selection of olive trees from CAN XIQUET’s collection, their chins will expel their green and black fruits, perfuming the environment with a certain aroma of oil. A pleasure for gourmets, a whim of this liquid gold,
OLI VERGE EXTRA 100% ARGUDELL DEL AMPURDAN “AVI JAUME” I AGROLI.
This mixture of mountain and sea gives us an ideal and special territory for this type of olives, giving the ALT EMPORDA area a prestige in the quality of the oil, within the guild.
Arriving at the oil mill, branches, leaves and small stones are separated and weighed. The ideal procedure will be to start it immediately before 24 hours after its harvest, to avoid fermentation from starting and to be able to remove little acidity, the conveyor belt will take the olive to the press to make the liquid gold flow. It will be necessary to wait and then the storage in stainless steel tanks; in warehouses with controlled temperatures and environment 24 hours a day. of the day.
Each shipment is analyzed for its fat content. It is this fine paste that will have to be beaten to facilitate extraction (cold extraction for virgin oil), well controlled to pass to centrifugation that the pulp generates, the greenish water. This has a green-golden appearance, it will be kept in a stainless steel tank so as not to add any smell or taste to the content, at a constant room temperature of 17 – 22º; The oil will be filtered for a better shine and finally it will be packaged to order, in order to maintain its properties to the consumer.
The performance measure of the ARGUDELL olive is low, approximately 12%, which makes it exclusive and of high quality. For example, from 1000kg of solid product, between 120 and 150 liters of oil would come out.
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