Spanish olive oil origin: single-region sourcing from Andalusia to your shelf
Spain is not one food region — it is a mosaic of climates, soils, and agricultural traditions that produce fundamentally different ingredients. We Are Bio works across three of these regions, sourcing each product category from the territory best suited to grow it. For wholesale buyers, single-origin sourcing delivers three things that blended supply chains cannot: batch-to-batch consistency, full traceability from grove to bottle, and an origin story that sells.
Andalusia
The heart of global olive oil production. We source our extra virgin olive oil from groves in Jaen, Cordoba, and Sevilla — provinces where olive cultivation predates modern agriculture by centuries. The primary variety is Picual, grown in dry Mediterranean conditions that stress the fruit just enough to concentrate its polyphenols and produce a robust, peppery oil with natural stability.
We also work with Hojiblanca and Arbequina when a softer profile is needed, but Picual is the backbone of our range. It is a variety wholesale buyers can market by name — recognised by chefs, cited in tasting notes, and increasingly requested by informed consumers.
Century-old groves. Organic certification. A single, traceable origin. That is the foundation of every bottle.
The Levante — Murcia & Valencia
Spain's eastern seaboard produces some of the most flavour-dense stone fruit, tomatoes, artichokes, and olives in the Mediterranean basin. Sea-tempered summers and cool mountain nights create a long, slow ripening cycle that builds sugar and acidity in balance — the reason the fruit arrives at our kitchen already intense, already complex, before any processing begins.
We source our preserves, table olives, and artichoke hearts from farming families in this region. The provenance is specific, the supply chain is short, and every jar can be traced back to the producer.
For buyers positioning clean-label products, named-origin ingredients from a recognised European food region carry more weight than "product of the EU" ever will.
Extremadura & Malaga
From Extremadura, we source the tomatoes that form the base of our organic sauces — varieties selected for flesh density and grown in the region's hot, dry summers.
The subtropical valleys around Malaga are one of Europe's few commercial avocado-growing regions. Our avocado oil is cold-pressed from fruit grown in this area. However, buyers should note that our avocado oil is labelled as Non-EU origin in accordance with current sourcing and regulatory requirements.
European-grown organic avocado oil is a genuine rarity. Most of the global supply originates in Mexico, Peru, or Kenya. We are transparent about the origin of every product we sell, and our documentation reflects current sourcing accurately.
The Seasons
Olives are harvested in October, when oil content and polyphenol concentration peak simultaneously. Avocados come in winter, from November through March. Stone fruit ripens through the summer months. Tomatoes arrive in late summer, at the end of long, sun-driven growing seasons.
Seasonality means every product is made from fruit at its peak — not from cold-stored or artificially ripened raw material. It also means planning. Harvest windows are fixed by nature, not by purchase orders. We manage that complexity so our buyers do not have to: forecasting volumes, coordinating with producers across three regions, and maintaining year-round stock availability from seasonal harvests.
Olives — October
Avocados — November to March
Stone fruit — Summer
Tomatoes — Late summer
Our Producers
We work directly with more than twenty farming families across Andalusia, Levante, Extremadura, and Malaga. Some of these partnerships stretch back over a decade. There are no brokers, no intermediaries, no anonymous commodity markets in our supply chain.
Direct relationships mean we know the grove, the farmer, the harvest date, and the processing facility for every batch. Annual visits are standard. Quality expectations are agreed face to face, not buried in a procurement contract.
For wholesale buyers, this translates to supply chain transparency that holds up under audit — and a consistency of quality that anonymous sourcing cannot replicate.