Siurana is the designation of Origin from Tarragona. This sort of olive oils are produced in different areas of southern Tarragona, at southern Catalonia. Some of those areas are Rivera d’Ebre or Alt camp, among others.
This sort of olive oils have received different national and international awards, being classified as one of the better recognised olive oils all around Spain. Its most recogniseable characteristics are:
1. Spicy touch: If you like strong olive oils, this type is perfect for you. Its strong sweet flavour and elegant fragance makes it perfect for olive oils lovers.
Designation of Origin Siurana: the flavour of Tarragona
2.Arbequina category: Differently from other olive oli’s designations of origin, this one mainly produce olives Arbequina type. It may sounds greek to those who don’t know much about olive oils, but we explain you: those oils have sweet flavours and elegant aromas, being banana or apple some of the most common ones.
3.Fast production: producing an olive oil main seems a world, but it is faster tan it seems. For producing this olive oil, it is only 24 hours needed. Don’t be any surprised, in only one day it is possible to produce such a delicious oil.
4.Oil from the mediterranean: The mediterraean sea and its weather offers delicious delicacies and some of its ingredients, like those oils. They are produced Costa Daurada’s nearby, getting the characteristics from this climate and reflecting it in your meals.
Don’t wait to try them! If you want to taste it, we you to do it with this extra virgin olive oil D.O.P Siurana of Mas Tarrés.
The Oracle of Delfos said that the one who gives the city the best gift would be the one to name it.
Poseidon build a river of salted water and Atenea created the olive tree.
Atenea won and the olive tree was the symbol and the most representative icon of the Greek and the Roman empires.
From the the olive tree humans extract the juice of the olives, the olive oil.