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A cul­ti­var is the vari­ety of olive. Just like the Chablis grape is used for some wines, olive vari­eties, or cul­ti­vars, are used for their unique char­ac­ter­is­tics to pro­duce mono­va­ri­etal olive oils. The most com­mon olive cul­ti­var used for oil is the Picual olive widely used in Spain, but there are hun­dreds of oth­ers.

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