Food Pairing with Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil

The family’s special relationship with olive groves and the extra virgin oils began a long time ago. The first documents of the Register of Úbeda date back to 1780, endorsing and confirming the property of the land and the olive groves. The group has family olive trees in this land, a beautiful irrigable property, the Conde de Guadiana, from which they collective olives that are then used to prepare and subsequently pack the highest quality extra virgin olive oil. The olives are selected by hand at the right time for their collection, and for being respectfully transferred to their mill. This guarantees the quality of the flavours and aromas.



In those days, our great-great-grandfather continued with the family tradition and know-how, which has travelled through generations and still continues to the present day. In Castillo de Canena, we control the whole process: from the meticulous cultivation of the trees to the moment in which the oil arrives at the sales point. It is this follow-up that differentiates us. 



Our extra virgin oil "Castillo de Canena" takes its name from our family house, a beautiful sixteenth-century castle in Canena, Jaén.Castillo de Canena Family Reserve

It has been the custom for generations to reserve the best of each variety’s harvest for the house in a renowned “Family Reserve”. In Castillo de Canena we now share it, in limited and numbered editions, with all those who know how to enjoy a really special extra virgin oil.

Picual

This is the most extended olive grove variety in the world. In Spain it represents 50% of production. Most of it is to be found in Andalusia, especially in the province of Jaén. Its olive is large-sized and elongated in shape, with a peak at the end. The trees of this variety are of an intense silvery colour, open and structured.

The Castillo de Canena Picual Family Reserve has a beautiful, clean, intense, golden yellow colour with warm greenish gleams. To the nose it appears as complex and peculiar, rich in elegant artichokes, eucalyptus, lettuce notes and mint, basil and rosemary reminiscences. To the mouth, it is harmonic and fine, endowed with the rich tones ripe banana, recently cut grass, and at the end, insinuations of sweet almond.