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Jaén and Córdoba cooperatives win two Spanish olive oil awards each
Two Andalusian cooperatives each won two national olive oil awards for the 2025-2026 campaign.
Picualia, based in Bailén in Jaén province, received the top Special Award and the award for bitter green-fruity oil.
Almazaras de la Subbética, in Carcabuey in Córdoba province, won for sweet green-fruity oil and for organic production.
Spain’s Agriculture Ministry gives the awards to recognise extra virgin olive oils in several categories.
The ceremony took place in Madrid, and the results also included a mature-fruity oil award for a cooperative in Tarragona province.
The awards recognise quality across Spain’s olive oil sector, including both conventional and organic production.
Picualia also won a Special Award in the previous campaign, while the sources give no further next steps.
Two cooperatives in Jaén and Córdoba each won two awards in Spain’s 2025-2026 extra virgin olive oil awards.
Agrícola de Bailén Virgen de Zocueca, known as Picualia, won the Special Award and the Bitter Green Fruity award.
Almazaras de la Subbética, based in Carcabuey, won the Sweet Green Fruity award and the award for organic production.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food gave the awards at a ceremony at Madrid’s Teatro Real.
The ceremony also recognised producers from Tarragona, while a cooperative from Baena in Córdoba was a finalist.
- Who
- Agrícola de Bailén Virgen de Zocueca in Jaén and Almazaras de la Subbética in Córdoba.
- What
- Each cooperative won two awards in the Alimentos de España awards for the best extra virgin olive oils.
- When
- The awards were for the 2025-2026 campaign. The ceremony took place on Tuesday.
- Where
- The ceremony was held at the Teatro Real in Madrid; the winning cooperatives are based in Bailén and Carcabuey.
- Why
- The awards recognise Spain’s best extra virgin olive oils.
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Picualia won the Special Award in the Sweet Green Fruity category.
The awards ceremony took place at Madrid’s Teatro Real and recognised oils from the 2025-2026 campaign.
- Picualia
- Special Award and Bitter Green Fruity award
- Almazaras de la Subbética
- Sweet Green Fruity award and organic production award
- Awards campaign
- 2025-2026
- Ceremony venue
- Teatro Real, Madrid
- Other award-winning producer
- Centre Oleícola del Penedès, Llorenç del Penedès, Tarragona
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What people are saying
the Spain we want to project to the world: producing with quality, transforming with knowledge and competing with its own character
this effort deserves to be recognised in awards that also promote innovation in a sector in which Jaén is a leading reference