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The Unfiltered Extra Virgin Olive Oil Amarga y Pica is the ideal complement for those who need a different touch looking for the intensity of the olives harvested in early harvest, in the first days of November. This olive juice that ripens at more than 1,500 meters of altitude is harvested in the Montes de Granada, in extreme temperature conditions that make it unique. This makes this extra virgin olive oil different in taste and smell, and one of the best in the world. The pack of 486 units Amarga y Pica of 25ml is perfect for those looking to have oil at home for a while.

An extra virgin olive oil unique in flavor that bitters and stings

Drawn directly from the Picual variety, this oil ferments a condensation of a bitterness on the palate that blends with a touch that stings being an olive harvested early in the season. In its variety of herbaceous aromas, it maintains a scent of olive leaf, grass, fig tree, tomato and tomato plant. It is an oil with powerful body, with a characteristic high oleic acid content (monounsaturated) together with low polyunsaturated acid content, making this olive oil very stable in oxidation and avoiding rooting over time.

This Extra Virgin Olive Oil has Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) as it has been harvested exclusively in the area of the Eastern Granada Mountains, at over 1500 meters altitude, getting that characteristic flavor that produces bitter and itchy on the palate.

What are the benefits of Amarga y Pica?

One of the greatest benefits of picual olive oil is that it is one of the responsible for reducing harmful cholesterol, being perfect for those people who pale high cholesterol. In addition, thanks to the high levels of polyphenols, they help to reduce fat oxidation so that fat clogging in the blood is prevented.

Uses of the 500ml format of Amarga y Pica

The 500ml format has a domestic use that would be ideal in high temperature stews, as a preservative for sausages and cheeses (for stability), as perfect complement in salads as a dressing whose vegetables you want to give a more intense touch, and as a complement to a natural tomato toast that you want to give that special flavor.

This 500ml bottle of extra virgin olive oil is also perfect for restaurants, cafes, gourmet stores, as a special gift or simply as your own use to give a bitter and spicy flavor that you need in a unique moment.

Awards obtained from Amarga y Pica:

• Prize for BEST Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Protected Designation of Origin MONTES DE GRANADA campaign 2010/2011.

• Prize for the BEST Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Protected Designation of Origin MONTES DE GRANADA campaign 2012/2013.

• GOLD PRESTIGE AWARD at the 7th International Extra Virgin Olive Oil competition "OLIVINUS 2013"

• Prize for the BEST Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Protected Designation of Origin MONTES DE GRANADA campaign 2017/2018.

Bitter and Pica Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting Note:

On the nose, it presents a complex fruity of green olive, with notes of fresh grass, tomato, almond, alloza and green banana peel, of medium-high intensity. On the palate, it presents a fresh entry and grassy, bitter and spicy flavor of medium intensity, reminding us of the properties of its picual olive variety. It is a complex and fluid oil in the mouth

Receptions with Amarga y Pica extra virgin olive oil

We have prepared a thousand and one ideas to use this oil in the kitchen, so we recommend you visit our blog where you will find recipes of Amarga y Pica.