Villalonga Olives
The Valencian oil olive, often blended with Blanqueta: a fruity, aromatic oil.
The Villalonga is a Valencian oil olive of Spain’s eastern Levant coast, grown around the province of Valencia. It gives a fruity, aromatic oil with a fresh green character and a gentle bitterness, and it is classically blended with the local Blanqueta to build the region’s protected oils. A regional, less-famous Spaniard worth knowing.
- Origin
- Valencia · Spain
- Type
- Oil olive
- Colour
- Green to black
- Flavour (oil)
- Fruity, aromatic, gently bitter
- Role
- Blended with Blanqueta
- Region
- Spanish Levant coast
- Best for
- Aromatic regional oil
Valencia’s oil olive
Beyond the Andalusian oceans of Picual lies a patchwork of regional Spanish olives, and the Villalonga is Valencia’s. Its oil is fruity and aromatic, fresh and green with a moderate bitterness — pleasant on its own and a natural partner for the small, pale Blanqueta in the protected oils of the Valencian Community.
Like many regional Spanish varieties, Villalonga is more often part of a named local blend than a solo star. A protected Valencian oil — Villalonga and Blanqueta together — is a good way to taste a corner of Spain the export shelves rarely show.