These Gordal olives are green, crisp and fleshy with a touch of heat from the guindilla chillies in the marinade.

Spain grows more than twice as many olives as the next largest global producer and processes them into olive oil and table olives.

There are a huge number of olive varieties amongst which the most popular table varieties include Manzanilla, Verdial and Picual.

In 1964 Gaspar Perelló opened a stall in Barcelona’s famous Boqueria Market to sell the local Arbequina olives; his range grew, as did his reputation, and soon expanded to include some of the best olives from all over Spain.

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