Making Olive Oil in Spain

Just outside of Priago de Cordoba, a Spanish town well known for its olive groves

locals Francisco Garcia and Joanna Romero are letting me see firsthand how olive oil is made

And it's a process that makes me appreciate those easy-to-open bottles of the green stuff

The first step is harvesting the olives, which can be quite a workout

Whether you do it the traditional way of literally beating the trees, or use some sort of machinery

both of which are done in Priago de Cordoba. Since these olives are going to make olive oil

and not end up in someone's martini, they aren't hand-picked, which would be done to avoid bruising

After they've fallen into the net, they're gathered up and taken to the mill

This is where the leaves and branches are separated from the olives

and the olives are pressed to make olive oil. I head inside for my first olive oil tasting

After experiencing the hard work that goes into this olive oil I excited to learn how to taste it Well let try it Let get the left cup The palm of the hand we going to warm the glass

so that we can extract the smell and the taste. We'll smell it

Here we've seen a fruit more intense fruit. More frangente. More fragrance

Very fragrant. The plants that grow in the countryside. We try it

We try it. The water is a sweetness, it has a little of a

bit of leaves, and at the end a bit of bitterness. It's very good when you describe all the different tastes that I should be tasting

I can, you know, makes it more real and I can taste all the different flavors

not just the olives and the oil, but all these other different things that go into it

And I didn't know that olive oil was so much like wine

No, I know that the oil of olive is like the wine. Exactly, it's like a wine

There's a lot of oils, many types of and, well, here you have one of the the best

It's true. There's some variety of olive oils, but this is only one of them

Thank you