Eder Merino is the man behind one of our SINGULARES 2022: ARRONIZ.

Some time ago, this history professor decided to return to the countryside to run the family estate, including a few hectares of olive trees in Bargota (Navarre).

Eder produces unfiltered oils, as it’s traditional in the area, bottled after approximately two months of natural and careful decanting in tanks. The Ebro valley, where these olive groves are, is an oasis of sorts, 400 metres above sea level and with chalky clay soil. An area with the most extreme continental climate with a mild Mediterranean climate mix, which yields an oil with a unique character.

Jose Antonio García is one of the forerunners of heroic olive growing in Galicia, which means that he helps farmers with small olive groves to get ahead. 

This is an early oil from the indigenous Brava and Mansa varieties, blended with Arbequina. It is cultivated intensively in micro-groves spread throughout the Ourense area, at an altitude of 130 metres. Its sweet notes have made us call it "arbequina syrup". 

The olive trees from which it comes are young, between 10 and 30 years old and have grown in an oceanic climate, making the oil taste genuinely unique.

Juan Molina is the person we contacted to grind our olives for the first time. His advice and teachings have helped SOLO to become a viable project.

SOLO ECO was born from our union. He pioneered the conversion of his Continental Mediterranean climate olive groves into organic farming. The olives that we turn into this oil come from those lands.

The olive trees from which we extract ECO have one or two feet and are relatively young, only between 20 and 50 years old; the estate, entirely dedicated to organic cultivation, is located very close to Úbeda, in Jaén.