Alba Pitted Manzanilla Olives Jar

Description

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.

Eating olive from olive trees of the Manzanilla, Manzanilla de Sevilla or Manzanillo varieties. The name (“little apple” in Spanish) is due to its shape; it is generally regular and spherical and resembles an apple. It is harvested and consumed in both its green and black (ripe) states. The production area is centered around Seville (Andalucia, Spain), although it is also found in other Spanish regions –mainly in Badajoz, Extremadura (Carrasqueña)– where it is known by different names. Is primarily used as an eating olive, and is perhaps the variety most widely used for this purpose. Owing to its high oil content it is also use for oil production.

Spanish Manzanilla olives have a balanced olive taste (bitter-salt) and a fine delicate flavour. They do not have any marked bitterness or aftertaste (the lingering taste after the olive has been eaten). It has no abnormal flavours (alterations or unusual tastes). Calibre: 220/240