Trás-os-Montes – 'beyond the mountains' – lies in north-eastern Portugal, away from the tourist coastlines. The climate is more continental: hot summers, cold winters, strong temperature swings. These conditions shape olives with depth and character.
In villages like Possacos near Valpaços, olive groves have often been in family hands for more than a century. Many estates work without synthetic pesticides and with late harvests, because ripeness and flavour matter more than maximum yield.
The region is not a mass producer for the world market. It is home to small, enduring family estates that understand olive oil as part of their identity – not as an industrial product.
Quinta da Salgueirinha stands in exactly this tradition: 220 trees, a 122-year-old trunk, late harvest and cold extraction. An oil that tastes of the land it comes from – of Trás-os-Montes.