*SALE 2024 harvest* Small-batch. Family-owned. Organically-farmed.
Introducing a new oil from a multi-award winning producer from the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia. They champion rare, local varieties and create insanely-high quality olive oils in a sustainable way on their 10-hectare plot. Their Croatian olive oil is loved by chefs like Gordon Ramsay and it made top-10 globally for small-batch oils with some of the highest international scores at the prestigious EVOOLEUM awards.
Our Extra Rares are all early harvest, made from green olives that yield oils with more intense, herbaceous, peppery, and bitter notes. Pressing olives at this early stage of maturity, and milling with precision, also creates oils with higher concentrations of antioxidants, making them more resistant to oxidation and flavour degradation than late harvest oils
While you wait for the new harvest to come in, don’t miss out on the incredible flavour and complexity these Extra Rares can offer. In fact, time in the bottle can be preferable to some palates, especially if you like a slightly more mellow profile, with tamed bitterness.
1 glass bottle: 500ml
Harvest: October 2024.
Variety: Field blend of Buža, Bjelica, Karbonaca, Moražola, Rožinjola, and Leccino.
Polyphenols: 399 mg/kg (in Dec 2024).
Origin: Vodnjan, Istria, Croatia.
Process: Superior category extra virgin olive oil obtained directly from mechanical (never heat or chemical) means; 0.11 acidity. The olives are milled within hours of being picked. This oil is filtered.
Agriculture: 10 hectares, organically-farmed with regenerative practices.
Soil type: Terra rossa and limestone.
