Aceitunas Alba are a family business dedicated to producing quality table olives and pickles for wholesale, catering and retail businesses. With over 100 years of tradition, our quality standards and traditional production of our products allow us to satisfy and delight the most demanding palates.
Aceitunas Alba produces and markets a wide range of olive varieties and flavours, such as traditional Manzanilla olive, Sevillana, Gazpacha, Gordal and black olives. We also produce a wide range of pickles: gherkins, sweet and spicy banderillas, tapas and tapenones, and baby onions. All of this is combined with different formats and packaging sizes ideal for retail and catering.
The name Gordal (“the fat one”) is due to its shape (rounded) and to its weight (over 6 gr.) Its production area is mainly in the province of Seville (Andalusia), which is why this olive is also called “Gordal Sevillana”. However there are also plantations of this variety of olive in other Spanish provinces such as Córdoba and Huelva. Due to its low oil content, it is used exclusively for processing as an eating olive, and not for oil extraction.
Our Gordal pitted olives are simply to die for! What makes Gordal Olives so special is their fine and delicate flavor similar to the Manzanilla olive, and a firm, crunchy, meaty texture. It has a good bitter-salt balance, without any marked bitterness or aftertaste (the lingering taste after the olive has been eaten). It has no abnormal flavours (alterations or unusual tastes). The marinade is aromatic and well-balanced. Caliber: 70/90
