The Portuguese Arbosana is perfectly balanced and displays unique notes of baking spice with a creamy confectionary centre and a pleasing peppery finish.   

Our partner producer (SAOV) in Portugal is using a high vacuum during malaxation to remove all of the oxygen in this processing stage where the oil spends the most time and is most prone to oxidation. This cutting edge and very technical method preserves the phenolic content, the overall chemistry plus the flavour characteristics while reducing other oxidation markers.