Cork, Wine and Olive Oil
Inside a Cork Oak Forest
Évora countryside
Walk through the montado, the cork oak landscape that defines the Alentejo.
Half day
Cork, Wine and Olive Oil
A Morning in the Olive Harvest
Join the harvest among ancient trees, then taste the new oil, still cloudy and green.
- Location
- An olive estate in the Alentejo
- Duration
- Half day
- Best seasons
- Autumn and winter
- Pace
- Active
The story
In late autumn the nets go down and the combs come out, and the groves fill with the sound of the harvest. Join the pickers among the old trees, fill a crate of your own, then follow the olives to the mill and taste the new oil the day it is born, peppery and green.
The day
What you do
- 1Join the harvesters in the grove and pick by hand
- 2Follow the olives to the mill for the pressing
- 3Taste the freshest oil of the year with bread
Gentle on the land
Traditional hand harvesting on family estates, gentle on the old trees and the soil beneath them.
Where this is
An olive estate in the Alentejo
Alentejo Central · Alqueva and the Great Lake
Approximately 38.40° N, 7.60° W
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