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Fruity, a Little Bitter and Spicy By Simon Field

Simon Field is the founder of International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes and an olive producer and trader.


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With a deep joy and happiness, Fermin became the first Member of the Register of International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes during the Spanish National Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting Team Championship in Priego de Cordoba, Spain, in March 2016.

In the fulfillment of a dream, where different aspects and branches of his learning are found, and from his childhood among olives, this is a crucial and vital achievement. 

Merged are the elements of the country person, farmer, master taster, membership of a cooperative, salesman and businessman. His feelings recognise the depth of his heritage in  Priego de Córdoba, the heart of Andalusia, and the ‘Cradle Of Extra Virgin Olive Oil’.

Born as the son of the President of an ‘Olive Oil Cooperative’ and countrywoman dedicated completely to her family, he acknowledges his family, his home, school in Bracana and Almedinilla, high school in Priego, the University in Córdoba, and training and Masters in extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) quality management. He is committed to his responsibility as a farmer, membership of an olive oil mill-cooperative, olive oil tasting and businessman with his company Aceites Vizcántar.

Aceites Vizcántar specialises in EVOO with Protected Denomination Olive Oil Priego de Córdoba and EVOO organic farming. It also offers other products derived from organic olives and olive oil such as; table olives, olive paste, olive Jam and cosmetics.

Aceites Vizcántar organises some activities related to olive trees and EVOO:

  • Olive Oil Tasting: To learn how to appreciate the ranges of flavours in olive oil through our senses.
  • Trips to Millenary Olive Trees: The life, history, culture and tradition through several monumental and millenary olive trees.

Ultimately, Aceites Vizcantar, along with The Denomination of Origin Priego de Cordoba Tasting Panel, of which he has been a member since 1996, and the tasting championship held on 11th March 2016, gave him the opportunity to be the first Savante.

His personal dream, and that of his region Priego de Cordoba, is to continue growing in a harmonious way with what the land provides us: the life that we are.

 

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Fermín Rodríguez Jiménez

Con profunda alegría os presento una “criatura recién nacida”:  nº 1 - Aceite de Oliva Virgen Extra SAVANTES. (DOP PRIEGO DE CÓRDOBA, España, marzo, 2016). 

El cumplimiento de un sueño, donde se encuentra las distintas vertientes de mis fuentes de aprendizaje que, desde mi niñez entre olivos, se han venido configurando hasta esta etapa fundamental de un sueño. Aquí se funden el campesino, el agricultor, el catador, el cooperativista, el maestro en el “mundo sensorial en el aceite de oliva”, el comercial que soy y que me he ido haciendo en mis circunstancias de dentro y de fuera de estas tierras nuestras: las de Priego de Córdoba, corazón de Andalucía, cuna mundial del aceite de oliva.

Nací hijo de un presidente de una cooperativa olivarera y de una campesina entregada a su familia y a su tierra.

Mi familia, el cortijo, la escuela en Brácana y Almedinilla, el bachillerato en Priego, la universidad en Córdoba, mi formación  en cursos de gestión de la calidad en el aceite, mi continua labor de agricultor, de socio de una cooperativa-almazara, el hacerme catador, mi hoy comerciante, me permite poder ofrecerles mi empresa actual: Aceites Vizcántar.

Empresa especializada en Aceite de Oliva Virgen Extra con DOP Priego de Córdoba y de Producción Ecológica. Y, otros productos que salen del Olivo: aceitunas de mesa, patés de aceitunas, confitura de oliva y cosmética hecha a base de Aceite de Oliva Ecológico.

En Aceites Vizcántar, también, desarrollamos actividades relacionadas con el Olivo y el Aceite:

  • La Cata en el Aceite de Oliva,  para aprender a valorar el aceite de oliva a través de nuestros sentidos.
  •  Viaje a los Olivos Milenarios,  Vida, historia, cultura y tradición a través de varios olivos monumentales y milenarios.

En definitiva, Aceites Vizcántar, junto con el Panel de Cata del CRDOP Priego de Córdoba, del que formo parte desde 1996, me han facilitado ser el nº 1 SAVANTES,

 

Mi sueño de persona, de esta zona, de esta Denominación de Origen…, Y este sueño pretende: aprovechar lo mejor de nuestra tierra,…para, seguir creciendo en armonía con lo que la tierra nos da: La vida que somos