DESCRIPTION
PREMIUM OLIVE OIL / EXTRA VIRGIN / AWARD-WINNING
Monterosa Selection olive oil is an extra virgin olive oil made from the Verdeal, Macanilha, Picual, and Cobrancosa olive varieties. It offers a harmonious blend of green fruitiness, spicy notes, a peppery heat, and a subtle bitterness reminiscent of artichokes. Delicious with grilled meat or fish, or as a flavorful drizzled over salads and vegetables, it's particularly wonderful with green asparagus. This intensely fruity olive oil is made from hand-picked olives grown in southern Portugal.
Monterosa's extra virgin olive oil comes from 20 hectares of olive groves in Moncarapacho in the eastern Algarve.
At Monterosa, traditional craftsmanship is paramount. The olives are hand-picked in autumn, early in the season when their content of healthy antioxidants is at its highest, and then immediately taken to the oil mill, which is nestled amidst the olive groves. The press and the buildings housing it date back to Roman times, and the olives are ground into a paste using a granite stone mill. Then, state-of-the-art equipment is used to extract and filter the oil. This extra virgin olive oil of the highest quality is stored in stainless steel tanks until it is bottled.
ABOUT MONTEROSA
"On a 15 ha area in Moncarapacho, in the western Algarve, we produce the olives that yield the Virgen Extra Monterosa oils, highlighting the olive potential of our region.
Step by step, we strive to maintain quality and focus on proven methods in the olive groves and at the lagar (olive oil processing plant). Harvesting at the ideal time of ripeness and shortening the waiting period between harvesting and processing are some of the practices that allow us to achieve our goal.
In Horta do Félix, we harvest the olives by hand while they are still green. This moment makes all the difference, as it brings more intensity and freshness to every drop of our olive oil. After harvesting and selection, the olives are immediately transported to the oil mill, where the oil is extracted, filtered, stored, and later bottled.
Throughout the entire production process, we focus on the circular economy and transform waste into new resources: We shred the wood between the rows of the olive grove and return the waste obtained from oil production to the soil in the form of compost."