Taylors Vargellas Olive Oil

As well as being one of the world’s most renowned wine estates and pre-eminent as a producer of vintage port, Quinta de Vargellas is also the source one of the Douro Valley’s finest olive oils. The estate’s 3,000 olive trees are carefully preserved and tended.

• It has a deep greenish yellow colour, green grassy aroma, and fresh lightly piquant flavour
• It shows a complex and persistent finish, with a lingering freshness

Serve Taylors Vargellas olive oil with sourdough. Drizzle on a salad, tapas, pasta, toast, fish, vegetables and cold dishes.

Predominantly of the Madural, Cordovil and Verdeal varieties, they can be found throughout the vineyard, lining the roadways through the property or forming groves in areas where no vines are planted.

Care has been taken when planting new areas of vineyard, such as those at Sao Xisto, not to destroy any olive trees but to carefully uproot and transplant them. As well as producing exceptional olive oil, the olive trees also contribute to the biodiversity of the vineyard.

The oil, which has an exceptionally low acidity, is extracted from the first cold pressing of the olives and is classified as extra virgin.