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Located in a strategic place, next to one of the entrances to the old town of Belchite and watched over by a hundred-year-old olive tree, the Molino Alfonso olive oil mill has maintained its continuous activity since 1907, year when it was founded by Julian Alfonso Pradas, the first of four generations of the Alfonso family in charge of the mill.
Today, Florentino Alfonso Casas is in charge of this hundred-year-old enterprise and the heir of a way of producing traditional olive oil, seeking excellence in the quality of the product.
Technological advances have changed the traditional way of extracting oil and Molino Alfonso has learnt to adapt to the new technologies in benefit of a production with strict quality controls, printing its own mark of identity on its products. This mark begins with the classification of the olives when they reach the mill.
95% of the raw material supplied to Molino Alfonso are Empeltre variety olives, from hundred-year-old olive trees and from the new estates of the Campo de Belchite Region.
It has a very varied range of finished products due to the mill's concern for diversification and innovation in its activity. Thus, Molino Alfonso has a line of aromatic oils and of cosmetics, whose main ingredient is the extra virgin olive oil it produces.
After 100 years manufacturing oil, Molino Alfonso has launched its star product onto the market: Oleum Belia, a light golden coloured oil, reminding us of ripe fruit, on green nuances, almond and walnut, which we can find in the best restaurants of Zaragoza.
One of the most exciting projects that Molino Alfonso has spent a lot of time and effort on, is the design of limited editions of extra-virgin olive oil with specific qualities, applying to them the legacy inherited in this activity, converting its final results into select signature oils, which will soon see the light in gourmet spaces.
The awards amassed by this mill over the years corroborate the quality of its oils and have acted as a spur for them to become known in countries such as Peru and Norway, with a positive reception.
