Olive Oil Mill Visit and Tasting near Baeza

Jaén is the olive oil province, and Úbeda and Baeza are surrounded by olive groves as far as the eye can see. Oleícola San Francisco, a family oil mill in Begíjar, a few minutes from Baeza, opens its facilities to show how extra virgin olive oil is made and to taste it. They present themselves as pioneers of oil tourism in Jaén: they began the visits in 2011 and say they have welcomed more than 70,000 people from more than 60 countries.

The visits

There are two formats. The mill visit with tasting tours the mill, with its traditional and technological parts, and ends in a guided tasting of its oils. The olive grove, mill and tasting visit begins with a walk among the olive trees and continues with the same tour of the mill. In the mill's own photos, the tasting takes place beside the mill's old presses.

The visits are given in Spanish, English and French, and the mill advertises guided visits every day. The website does not publish the duration, price or start times; they appear when booking on its booking platform or you can ask by phone.

Other experiences

Besides the visits, the mill offers workshops and miller's breakfasts, tapas, meals with local produce and a tasting of its E_sencial Olive line. It also has summer packages with accommodation in two four-star hotels in Baeza. At the end, the shop sells its oils: early harvest, family harvest, organic, olives and even chocolates and cosmetics made with olive oil.

When to go

All year. If you want to see the mill pressing, ask when booking about the dates of the harvest season, which in Jaén runs from autumn to winter. In summer, the walk through the olive grove is better first thing.

How to book and get there

On its website, on 953 76 34 15 or at [email protected]. It is on Calle Pedro Pérez, s/n, in Begíjar, on the outskirts of Baeza; you get there by car in a few minutes. Individual and group visits are accepted.

Combine it with a walk around Baeza and the cathedral. To eat afterwards with Jaén produce, in Baeza there are Acebuche and Vandelvira.