Changlot Real Olives
The elongated oil olive of Valencia: a fruity, aromatic, slightly bitter oil.
The Changlot Real is a distinctive Valencian oil olive of Spain’s eastern coast, recognisable by its elongated fruit borne in long clusters (the name nods to the bunch, changlot). Productive and adaptable, it gives a fruity, aromatic oil with a fresh green character and moderate bitterness — another of the regional Spanish varieties that round out the Levant coast’s oils.
- Origin
- Valencia · Spain
- Type
- Oil olive
- Colour
- Green to black
- Shape
- Elongated, in clusters
- Flavour (oil)
- Fruity, aromatic, green
- Region
- Spanish Levant coast
- Best for
- Aromatic regional oil
The cluster olive of Valencia
The Changlot Real is one of the eastern coast’s characterful oil olives — its long, elongated fruit hangs in generous clusters, and it bears reliably. The oil is fruity and aromatic, fresh and green with a moderate bitterness, good on its own and useful in the region’s blends alongside Blanqueta and Villalonga. A regional Spaniard with its own personality.
Like its Valencian neighbours, Changlot Real is more a local, named oil than an export star — which is exactly why a protected Valencian bottle is a good way to taste a Spain beyond the Andalusian giants.