# S01E02 \[EN\] A Few Days Decide Everything: Early Harvest in Extra Virgin Olive Oil:

Episodio de [Origen Pons](https://escuchario.semeescucha.es/podcast/origen-pons), de Pons.

- Publicado: 20 de agosto de 2026
- Duración: 18 min
- Temporada 1, episodio 2
- Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/114c27080/podcast/play/124484016/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-20%2F6d4f3af3-8fc0-c25b-34d5-061bf578bfc5.mp3
- Página: https://escuchario.semeescucha.es/podcast/origen-pons/episodio/6565757-s01e02-en-a-few-days-decide-everything-early-harvest-in-extra-virgin-olive-oil

## Sobre este episodio

Quality starts in the field, but it is at harvest that a producer decides how much of it survives. In this episode Eduard Pons, CEO of PONS and fourth generation of a family producing extra virgin olive oil in Lleida since 1945, opens up the most demanding moment of the year. The window for top-quality green oil lasts no more than ten days per variety, and it never falls on the same date twice. Eduard walks through how PONS reads it: NIR analysis on the fruit while it is still on the tree, historical series, and a staggered varietal design (Lecciana, Arbequina, Koroneiki, Arbosana) that spreads early harvest from mid-September to late October. Then the mechanics. Irrigation cut seven days out. Fruit between 45% and 55% moisture. Harvesters from first light, olives never above 26 °C. Five tonnes per micro-lot, twelve kilometres at most, thirty minutes to the mill. Two hours from tree to oil. And the part nobody puts on a label: early picking means giving up yield. PONS mills most of its oils at 11-13% yield instead of the 20%+ available weeks later. That gap is the price of polyphenols above 300 mg/kg, of pungency and bitterness, and of an oil that stays stable through the year. Origen PONS is the podcast where we explain extra virgin olive oil from the inside: the decisions behind each bottle, told by the people who make them.

Anterior: [E01 \[EN\] From Grove to Bottle: What Real Vertical Integration Means in EVOO](https://escuchario.semeescucha.es/podcast/origen-pons/episodio/6565758-e01-en-from-grove-to-bottle-what-real-vertical-integration-means-in-evoo)
Siguiente: [S01E02 \[ES\] Unos pocos días lo deciden todo: la cosecha temprana en el AOVE](https://escuchario.semeescucha.es/podcast/origen-pons/episodio/6565756-s01e02-es-unos-pocos-dias-lo-deciden-todo-la-cosecha-temprana-en-el-aove)

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