🫒 Ultra-Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Picual Ultra-Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Robust • Chile • May 2026 Harvest
Our Chilean Picual Ultra-Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a bold, early-harvest EVOO with distinctive notes of dry herbs, anise, and ripe stone fruit, complemented by a balanced, lingering peppery finish. Produced from dry-farmed olives using deficit irrigation, this robust oil develops exceptional flavor while naturally concentrating beneficial antioxidants.
🧾 Quick Specs
- Cultivar: Picual
- Origin: Chile
- Harvest: May 2026
- Intensity: Robust
- Extraction: First cold extraction
- Growing Method: Dry farmed with deficit irrigation
- Source: Single-origin olive oil
- Quality Assurance: Fully lab tested for freshness, purity, and quality
🏆 Why This EVOO Is Ultra-Premium
- Single-varietal Picual harvested early for exceptional flavor and antioxidant content
- Impressive biophenol concentration of 438 ppm
- Outstanding oleic acid value of 78%
- Exceptional freshness marker with 97% DAGs
- Extremely low PPP at <0.6%
- Very low free fatty acids at 0.16%
- Very low peroxide value of 3.6
- Robust, balanced flavor verified by professional taste-panel assessment
🌿 Tasting Notes
This robust Picual opens with distinctive notes of dry herbs, aromatic anise, and ripe stone fruit. Its balanced bitterness develops through the center of the palate before giving way to a clean, lingering peppery finish. Bold without becoming overpowering, it brings complexity and vibrant olive flavor to grilled meats, roasted vegetables, hearty soups, artisan bread, and robust vinaigrettes.
Produced from dry-farmed olives using deficit irrigation, this oil develops concentrated flavor and an impressive level of naturally occurring antioxidants.
🫒 Intensity: 7.5 / 10
🌳 From Grove to Bottle
This Picual is produced in Chile from dry-farmed olive trees managed with deficit irrigation. Carefully limiting water encourages the olives to develop concentrated flavor and naturally occurring antioxidants.
The olives are harvested early and cold extracted soon after picking to preserve freshness, aromatic complexity, phenolic content, and flavor integrity. The finished oil is then evaluated through laboratory chemistry and professional sensory assessment.
🏅 What Does Ultra-Premium Mean?
The Ultra-Premium (UP) Standard identifies extra virgin olive oils that exceed basic EVOO requirements through stricter chemistry, freshness, sensory, and quality benchmarks.
UP oils are lab tested, harvest dated, and evaluated for freshness markers such as Free Fatty Acids (FFA), Peroxide Value (PV), DAGs, PPP, antioxidant content, flavor integrity, and overall quality.
Unlike many mass-market olive oils, ultra-premium oils are selected for traceability, freshness, chemistry, and sensory performance.
🔬 Lab Verified Olive Oil Chemistry
This Picual Ultra-Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil was first pressed, cold extracted, and fully lab tested to verify freshness, purity, antioxidant content, flavor intensity, and cooking performance. Its impressive biophenol and squalene content, very low free fatty acids, excellent oleic acid value, outstanding DAGs freshness marker, and extremely low PPP help explain why this oil qualifies as ultra-premium.
Brush onto steak, lamb, pork, burgers, or grilled chicken, or use it as the foundation for bold marinades and herb sauces.
Toss with potatoes, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, carrots, mushrooms, onions, or other hearty vegetables before roasting.
Finish lentil soup, bean soup, minestrone, tomato soup, or rustic vegetable stews with a generous drizzle just before serving.
Its dry-herb, anise, stone-fruit, and pepper notes are excellent for artisan bread dipping and robust balsamic vinaigrettes.
🍽️ Food Pairings
This robust Chilean Picual pairs beautifully with grilled steak, lamb, roasted chicken, pork, roasted vegetables, mushrooms, hearty soups, lentils, white beans, aged cheeses, tomatoes, potatoes, artisan bread, grain bowls, and bold pasta dishes.
Its distinctive dry-herb, anise, ripe stone-fruit, and lingering pepper notes make it an excellent finishing oil whenever a dish benefits from vibrant, assertive olive flavor.
🍷 Perfect Traditional Balsamic Vinaigrette
Ingredients:
- 3 Tbsp Picual Ultra-Premium EVOO
- 1 Tbsp EVOO Marketplace Traditional 18-Year Barrel-Aged Dark Balsamic
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tsp finely minced shallot
- Pinch of sea salt
- Freshly cracked black pepper
Directions: Whisk the balsamic, Dijon mustard, and shallot together. Slowly drizzle in the Picual while whisking until emulsified. Season with sea salt and freshly cracked pepper.
Perfect for: 🥗 hearty greens, 🥩 steak salads, 🍅 tomato salads, 🥦 roasted vegetables, 🥔 roasted potatoes, and 🌾 grain bowls.
🔥 Heat Applications
Picual is well suited for sautéing, grilling, roasting, baking, and everyday cooking. Its robust flavor and excellent freshness values make it especially effective with meats, hearty vegetables, and savory dishes.
🫙 Storage & Freshness
Store tightly capped in a cool, dark cabinet away from heat and direct sunlight. For the best flavor and nutritional quality, enjoy within several months of opening and within one year of harvest.
👩🍳 Recipe Ideas
Use Picual for grilled steak with chimichurri, roasted root vegetables, lentil soup, white-bean soup, tomato bruschetta, grilled lamb chops, roasted cauliflower, mushroom crostini, and rustic bread dipping.
🧮 Nutritional Information
Extra virgin olive oil is a single-ingredient food made from fresh olives. It contains no sugar, no sodium, and no cholesterol.
This Picual naturally contains monounsaturated fat, biophenols, squalene, and alpha-tocopherols. Like all oils, it is calorie-dense and should be used as desired for flavor, finishing, and cooking. For detailed serving information, refer to the Nutrition Facts label.
All chemistry values were measured at the time of the olive crush.
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