APRORA

Olive trees and Oils from Rioja Alavesa

We are farmers, olive oil mills, and brands olive tree and olive oil enthusiasts

Our goal: To spread the ancient culture of the Basque Country’s olive tree and oil

We revalue the cultivation of the olive tree, as well as the excellent quality extra virgin olive oil (AOVE) of our land.

To preserve it and keep it alive for many more centuries, encouraging the growing, marketing and sale of our oils.

Because of the particularities of this type of olive tree:

Growth of olive trees in a limit climate zone:

The variety is adapted to the area providing environmental and landscape quality. Helping to avoid erosion and maintaining biodiversity, it provides value to the land.

Handmade and personalized work:

Manual collection, small batches, reduced mills... This are some of the elements that boost our thorough elaboration process..

The hidden secret of Basque gastronomy

The olive tree of Rioja Alavesa.

The farming of the olive tree in Rioja Alavesa is and antique matter, that comes from more than 2,000 years ago.

Its introduction and development came with the arrival of the Romans in the area and has been upheld to this day. Although it reached an all-time maximum of 1,100 has, the grow space was reduced, and now we are beginning to recover the olive tree’s raise.

The need to produce wood for heating after the Spanish Civil War, the development of the wine sector, the small size of the plots, the extreme weather, and the orography of the land; Increase the hardness of its cultivation and harvesting.

Currently remains just over 300 Has of olive trees, more for romanticism (family tradition and love of the land) than for economic profitability.

Our ancestors have made the natural selection of the best olive trees.

They were able to identify which were the finest, those that resisted gardening in our climate, finally obtaining the variety known today as Arróniz.

For centuries the cultivation of the olive tree liked to others such as cereals, vineyards and vegetables, diversity that conditioned its prune and maintenance.

The hidden secret of Basque gastronomy

The olive tree of Rioja Alavesa.

The farming of the olive tree in Rioja Alavesa is and antique matter, that comes from more than 2,000 years ago.

Currently remains just over 300 Has of olive trees, more for romanticism (family tradition and love of the land) than for economic profitability.

Our ancestors have made the natural selection of the best olive trees.

They were able to identify which were the finest, those that resisted gardening in our climate, finally obtaining the variety known today as Arróniz.

For centuries the cultivation of the olive tree liked to others such as cereals, vineyards and vegetables, diversity that conditioned its prune and maintenance.

Basque and extra. Alava Oil

THE COMMUNITY OF APRORA

To protect our olive tree, we have our partners and the support of the Basque Government and Provincial Council of Alava.

BRANDS

OLIVE OIL MILLS

OLIVE FARMERS

We invite all those producers and entities to partner and support us. To be part of a sector that keeps alive the olive oil culture of the Basque Country.

Get together that a culture based on tradition and love for our land, continue to offer us its exquisite and peculiar olive oil.

Together we can encourage, perpetuate the values, preserve, and incentivize the life in our villages.

Cultivating biodiversity and the environment.

SERVICES

OLIVE FARMERS

⇒ Access to the association’s newsletter.

⇒ Personalized attention to associated olive farmers companies.

⇒ Practical training days.

⇒ Recommendations for new plantations.

⇒ Proposals of action for the optimization of olive cultivation, with visits to the farms 3 times per month. These indications include aspects such as soil management, irrigation, nutritional status, pests, diseases, etc.

OLIVE OIL MILLS

⇒ Instructions to determine the right time to start the harvesting campaign and collaboration in the season organization.

⇒ Proposal to work according to the lots of olives: temperatures, times, decanting, etc.

⇒ Support for the ordination of oil batches obtained according to their quality, taste, description of oils and proposal of blends.

⇒ Personalized attention to member olive oil mills.

BRANDS

⇒ Creation of a brand image and slogan as an association.

⇒ Support in the spreading with technical means.

⇒ Conferences for distributors, hoteliers, points of sale.

⇒ Training actions aimed at differentiation and valuation.

⇒ Personalized attention to associated brands.

Alava oil. Millennia of aroma, flavor, energy, and natural antioxidants.

for any age OTHER ACTIVITIES

Various activities for schools, associations, hoteliers, points of sale, distributors and all those interested in knowing the oil culture of Alava.

Aceite de Álava: Milenios de Aroma, Sabor, Energía y Antioxidantes Naturales.

For any age

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Various activities for schools, associations, hoteliers, points of sale, distributors and all those interested in knowing the oil culture of Alava.

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APRORA

Association for the Promotion of Olive and Oil from Rioja Alavesa