Fernando Zóbel limited edition
On its journey towards excellence and as a benchmark family company in haute cuisine on account of its production of the finest olive oils in the world, Castillo de Canena launches its 18th limited edition of First Day of Harvest. A famous figure from the world of culture annually champions each edition, and this year the painter Fernando Zóbel is the one signing the limited edition.
Extraordinary personality and great painter
A Spanish painter born in the Philippines, who studied high school in Spain, Switzerland and the Philippines, and received a degree and doctorate in Philosophy and Literature at Harvard University with the qualification of magna cum laude. An impenitent traveller between Europe, America and the East, Zóbel had a clear vocation to create currents and unite cultures, in addition to the multiple facets that converged in his personality and were developed by him throughout his life: historian, patron, university professor, bibliophile, collector, creator and founder of the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca. All these activities were endowed with a great intellectual charge which shaped his extraordinary personality, and never meant a dispersion of the character, as could have happened, but all of them were united under the common denominator of his great vocation: painting.
2023-2024 First Day of Harvest
To obtain these prized extra-virgin olive oils, Castillo de Canena works with precision agriculture. Using cutting-edge technology, the company can scientifically supervise the physiological situation of its olive trees in real time and respond to their needs throughout the seasons. This is essential to keep their quality and sustainability in another year of adverse weather with little rainfall and extreme high temperatures. All this without forgetting the mindset of regenerative farming that rules Castillo de Canena ́s whole processes.
