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Vol. 03 / September 2026 — A temporary bulletin

The Everyday oil lands Wednesday.

The boxes left Tropicual in the Sierra de Cazorla — packed by hand, beautifully, by Lucía, Albert and their team — and they are on the road. Our Tropicual EVERYDAY — the 714 mg/kg Picual workhorse, the oil the apothecary runs on — arrives from Spain this Wednesday. Tins ship the day it lands. This is the dispatch from the front door.

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Tropicual EVERYDAY extra virgin olive oil — 750 ml light-proof tin, Picual, Sierra de Cazorla, Hinojares
Fig. 01Spc. 01 — the Everyday oil, sealed and dated to the pressing, waiting out the journey.

Why this one matters

The Everyday oil is the oil we put within reach of everyone. When the boxes land, the order becomes the delivery.

Most "extra virgin" on the shelf is a blend of luck and logistics — picked late, pressed warm, shipped loose, bottled who knows when. This is the opposite: November-harvest Picual, cold-pressed within hours of the branch, sealed under nitrogen at the mill, and carried intact across the water in boxes packed by the hands that made it.

The number travels with it. 714 mg/kg of polyphenols, signed by the World Olive Center for Health in Athens. At 20 g per day this oil clears the EU's threshold for protecting blood lipids from oxidative stress nearly fifteen times over — a biotechnic tool, not a condiment.

This is what we mean by biotechnic — carrying a living compound from a living tree to a living body without breaking it. The journey is the last leg of that work.

From the Sierra de Cazorla to your kitchen

Four phases
  1. 01

    PRESS

    Picked in the Sierra de Cazorla

    November-harvest Picual from the Sierra de Cazorla, Hinojares, milled at Bosques del Sur between 07–23 November 2025. Picked at full maturity, pressed cold, held under nitrogen since the day it was made.

  2. 02

    ASSAY

    Signed at Athens

    714 mg/kg total polyphenols — oleocanthal 46 mg/kg, oleacein 52 mg/kg, D1 index 98. Independently analysed and certified by the World Olive Center for Health (Cert. C2526-00708). The number is the product.

  3. 03

    BOXES

    Packed by hand

    Not a container — boxes. Every tin wrapped and packed by hand by Lucía, Albert and their team at Tropicual, straight from the mill. No middlemen, no warehouse roulette. It leaves Spain this week and arrives Wednesday, the polyphenols intact.

  4. 04

    TINS

    On the road to you

    Tins ship the moment the boxes land. Exquisitely designed by Tropicual — dated to the pressing, sealed from the air. The oil you receive is the oil the tree made.

Tropicual EVERYDAY — Picual

Spc. 01
£29.99750 ml
Cultivar
Picual — November harvest, 07–23 Nov 2025
Origin
Sierra de Cazorla, Hinojares, Andalusia. Milled at Bosques del Sur.
Polyphenols
714 mg/kg total. Oleocanthal 46 mg/kg, oleacein 52 mg/kg (D1 index 98). Certified by the World Olive Center for Health, Athens (Cert. C2526-00708).
Tasting
Lots of mature notes — ripe almond, dried fruit, a soft roundness — with a gentle peppery catch at the back of the throat that tells you the work is real. Finishes clean.
Arrival
Wednesday 2 September — ships on landing
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Arrival Updates

When the boxes clear and the first tins go on the van, you will be the first to know.

One dispatch when the Everyday oil lands — the arrival notice, the dispatch day, and a short window to claim a tin before the rest of the apothecary. No fluff. No wellness woo. Just the work.

Ancient olive tree — gnarled trunk and silver canopy, the source of resistance, resilience and recovery
Fig. 02The tree that keeps making the compound, harvest after harvest.

The harder the olive tree works to live, the more polyphenols its fruit carries — and the more the oil gives back to the body that receives it. Wednesday, that work is in your kitchen.

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This page is temporary — it will be retired when the oil is on the road and every tin is claimed. Para la gente.