AL MAJDAL AGRICULTURAL COMPANY:

 

Tel	:	+962-6-5917141
Fax	:	+962-6-5818592
E-mail	:	info@mango-grp.com
Po Box	:	14 Amman 11118 Jordan

Al Majdal Agricultural Company is specialized in producing extra virgin olive oil from the olive plantation of the Mango family estate. The estate is situated in Majdal on the hills of Gilead close to the Roman town of Gerasa. (Jerash)
The estate was acquired in the mid 1940’s and has been a family run farm ever since, consisting of a cold press and a variety of olive trees that are cultivated without the use of chemical fertilizers or chemical pesticides and are mostly rain irrigated.

The olives are harvested manually at the right stage of maturity, which usually coincides with the month of October. They are sorted and placed in ventilated crates in a cool sheltered area for no longer than two days before pressing.

The press is one of the oldest modern presses in Jordan. It was established in 1968.
It is a cold press in which the olives are washed, ground to a paste and put onto press sheets, which are then layered and pressed.
The resulting liquid is simply centrifuged to separate the oil from the remaining liquid.
The olive oil is non-filtered and cold pressed. Being non-filtered may cause some sedimentation at the bottom of the containers. The olive oil is not filtered to maintain its natural qualities and character. The extra virgin quality to the olive oil is naturally attained and not through the use of acidity reducing machines as is common in most modern presses.

Olives that are pressed at the beginning of our harvesting season yield oil that is greener in colour and sharper in flavour. Towards the end of the harvesting season (end of December), when the olives tend to be mostly black, the oil tends to have a honey colour with a more mellow flavour. With time, both oils settle, mellow down and the difference in their flavour becomes subtle.

The olives are pressed in a way that produces an extra virgin olive oil naturally and not by using acidity reducing machines as are used in many modern presses today. In these acidity- reducing machines the olive oils are made extra virgin oils with low acidity using an unnatural method. Because olive oil is extremely sensitive to heat and light this unnatural method affects the beneficial qualities of the olive oil.

It is a pleasure and a great satisfaction not only to be able to cultivate our olive trees in a natural and chemical free way, but also to be able to harvest them in the best way possible and to press them in our own cold press. This gives us a unique control over all aspects that are involved in the production of such an exceptional masterpiece as olive oil.