Castillo de Canena · Jaén, Spain
Olive oil from a Spanish castle, since 1780.
A family estate in Andalusia, 100/100 in the Flos Olei guide's Hall of Fame every year since 2020 and poured at Celler de Can Roca and Aponiente. Shipped to your door from New Jersey.
Why Castillo de Canena
- 100/100 Flos Olei Hall of Fame, 2020–2026
- 1780 Family olive growers since
- 2,000 ha Own groves, regenerative farming
- 60 Countries pour it
The oils
Pick your bottle.
Start with the house favorites: Family Reserve Picual and Arbequina, and the rare Early Royal. The limited and gastronomic oils are available by special order.
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Family Reserve
Picual
Powerful and green: fresh-cut grass and tomato leaf. Their most awarded oil.
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Family Reserve
Arbequina
Sweet and aromatic, with notes of green apple.
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Early Harvest
Royal
A rescued variety, harvested early for the first time. Artichoke and green banana.
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Special order
First Day of Harvest
Picual
Pressed only from olives picked on day one. Very fresh and herbaceous. Limited edition.
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Special order
Biodynamic
Picual
Demeter-certified, from groves farmed to regenerate the soil.
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Special order
Gastronomic
Oak-smoked
Arbequina naturally cold-smoked over oak. No flavorings, just smoke.
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Special order
Gastronomic
Harissa
Arbequina infused with red pepper, cayenne, garlic, coriander and caraway.
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Special order
Gastronomic
Amontillado
Family Reserve Arbequina finished in sherry casks. Dried fruit, a saline edge. 0% alcohol.
Gift boxes, packed in New Jersey
From tree to bottle
One family,every step.
Castillo de Canena owns the whole chain: 2,000 hectares of regenerative olive groves in the upper Guadalquivir valley, a mill named the world's best in 2022, and the bottling line. Nothing is bought in bulk, nothing is blended from strangers.
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Tree by tree
Olives are chosen tree by tree in the estate's best plots and harvested without harming the trees.
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Under two hours
From branch to mill in less than two hours, at a controlled temperature.
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Never above 21 °C
Ground slowly and mixed cold, with no water added, to keep every aroma.
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Bottled to order
Kept under nitrogen in steel tanks and bottled only when ordered, so it reaches you fresh.