Ponte de Pedra Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Central Portugal is making its debut on our shelves with their fresh Nov 2025 harvest. It is a wonderful, light, unfiltered Extra Virgin Olive Oil with a deliciously fresh green and fruity fig like taste and just the right amount of pepper to excite your salads leaves and other foods.
However, what makes our new Single Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil most special is that this first class olive oil is from my Sister and Brother-in-Law's farm in Portugal, Quinta Ponte de Pedra. We first visited their farm in October 2025 and actually witnessed the start of their olive harvest first hand!
*Please note this olive oil is available for delivery after 26 Dec 2025.
While were out visiting Quinta Ponte de Pedra my Brother-in-Law, Stuart, introduced us to a fabulous new way to enjoy your olive oil at breakfast.
Take any jar or pot and fill with olive oil and a sprinkle of salt and place in the fridge.
Served directly from the fridge gives a spreadable olive oil. The olive oil will melt on to your toast and bring you much joy as you think of Central Portugal with each bite!
Tasting and using freshly pressed Ponte de Pedra Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a fabulous treat that we think all should experience in life.
The fibre of the olives creates a velvety text to the start, as they are still freely circulating in it from the milling process. The vivid green olive oil actually has an aroma of fresh olives or mown grass.
Please be aware that this natural fibre will settle after time and can then be used for adding a little extra flavour into your cooking. A simple drizzle of this oil on a strong green leafed salad, with possibly a little cracked salt over the top, and you will have released a little magic.
Pair this years harvest with our stronger flavoured fruit and balsamic vinegars, such our Black Garlic Balsamic Vinegar, Aronia Berry Balsamic Vinegar or our fruity Scottish Raspberry Vinegar and Bramble Vinegar for an amazing salad dressing.
Please be aware that stocks of early extra virgin olive oil are extremely limited again this year, so it's first come first served!
Quinta Ponte de Pedra has about 300 trees, varying in age form 25 to 120 years old. There are four olive varieties - Galega, Cornicabra, Picual, Arbequina. The older and larger trees are Galega, a traditional Portuguese olive variety.
Galega is typically described as delicate to medium-intense, with soft, sweet, and persistent aromas. Tasting notes often mention ripe or slightly green fruit, with hints of apple or fig, and balanced bitterness and pungency rather than aggressive spice.
Typically each batch taken to the press will be combined with approximately 15% of the Cornicabra, Picual and Arbequina varieties, to increase the yield, add some bitter notes and further increase shelf stability of the olive oil.
Quinta Ponte de Pedra olives were harvested by hand in late October – early November, after an unusually hot and dry summer followed by plenty of rain just in time for harvesting.
It took a team of eight, 12 days to pick the 4 tonnes of olives. The 2025 yield was high and returned 600 litres of liquid gold!
The 2025 harvest of Ponte de Pedra Extra Virgin Olive Oil has an recorded acidity of 0.19 ± 0.02 % and Peroxide Value of 5.0 ± 1.1 me O2/kg, well within the range for Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
It is good news, our pre-Christmas delivery service is currently running as normal.
Last orders for a pre-Christmas delivery is 9am on Friday 19th Dec for Express Delivery, Wed 17th for Standard Delivery and Mon 15th Dec for Economy Delivery.
Last orders for a pre-Hogmanay delivery is 9am on Mon 29th Dec for Express Delivery only.
*Please note orders placed after 9am Mon 29th Dec will be delivered on or after Mon 5th Jan 2026.
We are currently offering FREE* Economy delivery to any UK mainland addresses for orders over £40, saving you £4.95.
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