Finca La Torre, from Antequera, does it again: finalist in the Best Oils of Spain Awards

Finca La Torre has done it again: it has been a finalist in the "Best Extra Virgin Olive Oils of Spain Awards 2025-2026" in the Organic Production category. This Thursday, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Luis Planas, posted on his social networks and congratulated the winners. "Congratulations to the winners and also to the finalists of the Best Extra Virgin Olive Oils of Spain Awards, campaign 2025-2026, from Jaén, Córdoba, Tarragona, and Málaga. Spain, a world leader in olive oil production, is an undisputed benchmark in quality," he stated.

This year, Finca La Torre has been a finalist along with Aceites Oro Bailén Galgón 99, SL, from Villanueva de la Reina (Jaén). In the previous campaign 2024/2025, it was the undisputed winner in the same organic production category with an oil "characterized as an intense fruity green olive, grass, almond shell, and olive leaf with notes of green fruits like banana and apple. On the palate, it is slightly sweet at the entrance and medium-high bitter and spicy. It is a balanced, persistent, and highly complex oil," as explained by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries itself.

This year Finca La Torre has been a finalist, while its competitor last year, Almazaras de la Subbética, SCA, from Carcabuey (Córdoba), took first place with an oil from the protected designation of origin Priego de Córdoba.

Finca La Torre is one of the Malaga oils with the most presence in national and international markets due to the quality of its products, that is, all its monovarietal oils.

How is the best oil chosen in these awards by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries? There is a first phase, carried out by the extra virgin olive oil tasting panel of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, which aims to eliminate possible defective oils, discard those with less than 80 points, and classify the oils in the three modalities of the contest. Oils that have passed the first organoleptic assessment will undergo successive evaluations to select the five best oils of each modality.

Later, the selected oils go to a second phase consisting of the final analysis of the samples selected in the first phase and will be carried out by a panel of tasters, where in addition to the members of the extra virgin olive oil tasting panel of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, members from other panels of the Administration authorized to carry out official control may also participate.

Finally, the head of the panel issues a technical report with the tests performed listing the five best-scored oils and the result of the physicochemical analysis, which will be submitted to the jury's chair. Subsequently, the jury, taking into account the technical report, will identify the highest-scoring samples with their corresponding coding and issue a report specifying the evaluation results.

Finca La Torre was also awarded during the XXIV Sabor a Málaga Awards for the Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil of the Province, harvest 2025-2026, recognitions created by the Málaga Provincial Council to promote Malaga AOVEs and stimulate the production of quality oils.

Specifically, the jury recognized Finca La Torre Hojiblanca in the category of intense green fruity, and Finca La Torre Arbequina in the category of ripe fruity.