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The Origin (1980s)

On our mother's side, we come from a family with a long tradition in olive cultivation.

As children, we spent every weekend in the village with our grandparents. Our grandfather taught our father—who had little agricultural experience—about his olive trees and crops, sharing his perspective on farming.

By the mid-1980s, our father took a bold step. With some savings, limited experience, and a lot of enthusiasm, he purchased a semi-abandoned estate with a declining olive grove and a farmhouse in need of major restoration.

The Effort: Study and Hard Work (1990s)

With our mother's support, our father began transforming the olive grove, studying the best irrigation and fertilization techniques and building an agricultural shed for tools and machinery. These were years of intense work.

We used to take the olives to cooperatives in nearby towns—Puente Genil and Badolatosa. Our father often felt frustrated because he believed he delivered olives of exceptional quality, yet the cooperatives paid him the same price as other farmers with less carefully tended fruit.

The Olive Mill: Creating Our Own Oil (2000s)

Since the cooperatives did not recognize the quality of our father's olives, he convinced our mother to start their own olive mill. Their goal was clear: produce high-quality, single-variety extra virgin olive oils exclusively from their estate. At the time, very few producers were making single-variety oils.

The first oil came from the 1999-2000 harvest. Confidently, our father submitted the Arbequina oil to the Ministry of Agriculture contest for the Best Spanish Extra Virgin Olive Oil—and to everyone's surprise, it won first prize in the "ripe fruity" category. Since then, our oils have earned additional awards, including Expoliva, Diputación de Córdoba, and OliveJapan.

The Challenge: Marketing (2010s)

At first, we naïvely believed that such accolades would make selling the oil easy. Reality taught us otherwise.

We have learned that building a presence in the market takes time. Our goal is to connect directly with the people who enjoy our oils and hear their feedback. For this, the internet has become an invaluable tool.

We are also excited about exporting our oils to other countries within the European Union.