The distinctive quality mark, the label on the packing, guarantees that this oil excels in high quality and the producers of the oil are bound to satisfy all conditions of the quality assurance of the Protected Name of the Origin of “the Mountain of Toledo”.The oil is under protection of trademark Denominación de Origen Protegida (D.O.P).
Montes de Toledo fulfills all the commitments of the guarantee with requisites (Regl. (CE) 1187/2000 and (EU) 593/2010). This certificate includes all production phases and guarantees not only the district of the production of the product, with its main distinctive characteristics, but also its traceability. In this certificate everything is detailed: from all the demanded conditions of cultivation of the olive crop, picking the olives and their transportation, to the processing of the fruit, its storage and bottling; including physical, chemical and organoleptic properties.
Before certificating of each product not only the terms of the delivery, but also the production processes which correspond to the prescribed are assessed. Additionally, the physical- chemical and organoleptic analyses of samples are made. The control authority has an established plan of supervision which traces all the commercial stages of realization of the oil, including product sampling for its subsequent analysis.
The tasters of the Fund Oleikola Internacional recognized by the Consejo Oleícola Internacional (COI), and prestigious independent laboratories realize these analyses. In case of a breach immediate sanctions up to revocation of the license will be imposed.
This control is carried out by Origen Montes de Toledo Regulating Council Fund according to the International Norm of UNE-EN-ISO-45011, this body is accredited by the National Organization of Accreditation of la Entidad Nacional de Acreditación (ENAC) with the number 13/C-PR033 for the certification of the products designated in certificates. This accreditation provides necessary confidence at the international level in technical ability of testifying body, its independence and impartiality.
This control is carried out by Origen Montes de Toledo Regulating Council Fund according to the International Norm of UNE-EN-ISO-45011, this body is accredited by the National Organization of Accreditation of la Entidad Nacional de Acreditación (ENAC) with the number 13/C-PR033 for the certification of the products designated in certificates. This accreditation provides necessary confidence at the international level in technical ability of testifying body, its independence and impartiality.
In this exclusive environment of Mountains of Toledo, with especially favorable conditions of climate and soil for obtaining the oil of exclusive quality its inhabitants, beginning from Phoenicians and up to the present, the slow process of selection, developed within centuries, which presented to us a special variety of exclusive olive of this land, high quality of which is recognized all over the world.
Cornicabra is cultivated in ancient traditional plantations, and even though it doesn’t reach high efficiency of intensive plantations, it lets us care of the process of obtaining the oil of the supreme quality as much as possible. The cornicabra oil is rich in oleic acid, polyphenol and the antioxidants, providing resistance to oxidation and therefore it is very stable and wholesome.