Az-Azeytun | Empeltre

Producer: Az-Azeytun
Region: Terra Alta, Catalonia
Harvest: 2025
Cultivar: Empeltre
Total Polyphenols: 208
Intensity: Medium

Suggested Uses: 

A couple drips of this delicious oil on a simple baked potato will make it explode with flavor. You’ll want to use this one in a variety of ways - poach a piece of salmon in it, season your seafood rice, or use it as the base of a dukkah.

About the cultivar:

The term empeltre is related to the Catalan word empelt or the Aragonese impelte, which means "graft". This is because empeltre trees have a very low rooting capacity, which forces the graft to be derived as a form of reproduction.

Spanish black olives, super-ripe and toothsome, are often made with this cultivar, but when harvested earlier, while still green, yield an olive oil that is simply extraordinary.

Tasting notes:

Az-Azeytun Empeltre variety is a young, balanced oil, with characteristics that mark the land in which it is cultivated. 

We learned that many of the locals don’t really care for Empletre as it is often too bitter and spicy for them. But for our palate, it's perfectly in balance, and sensationally broad. There’s an entire aroma wheel of olive oil goodies that show up here, from green almond to green tomato to chicory and to artichokes.