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Club Exclusive: Croatian Extra Rare Olive Oil

Croatian Extra Virgin Olive Oil *Launching 7th of July* - Citizens of Soil

Croatian Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Citizens of Soil

Club Exclusive: Croatian Extra Rare Olive Oil

Name: Club Exclusive: Croatian Extra Rare Olive Oil
Brand: Citizens of Soil
SKU: CR-2024-Bottle-500-Bundle
Price: 35.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

—Intense & Grassy—

*Free shipping exclusively for our Olive Oil Club members*

Loved by Gordon Ramsay, this high-quality and sustainable variety made the top 10 globally for small-batch oils.

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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 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.
Harvest: October 2024.
Variety: Field blend of Buža, Bjelica, Karbonaca,
Moražola, Rožinjola, and Leccino.
Polyphenols: 399 mg/kg.
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.
Twenty years ago, Lena’s father, Silvano, revitalised an overgrown olive grove. On it lived 57 centennial trees, all of an indigenous local variety, Buža.

And from the moment Lena tried the juice from the fruits of these once-abandoned trees and experienced her first harvest, she knew that this was her calling.

The whole family now works on their small-batch oils, hand harvested and then milled in a state-of-the-art facility. This quality is reflected in their consistent wins:

⭐️ Gold Award 2018, 2020, 2022 at NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition (USA)
⭐️ World Top 50 Award in the EVOOLEUM Guide 2021, 2022

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Tastes like...

Nose: Green almond, chicory, and green tomato.

Palate: Green vegetables. Moderately bitter with a medium peppery finish.

Pairs with...
Really loves a risotto, sings in soups, amazing in arugula salads, enjoys an aged cheese, and pairs beautifully with dark chocolate.
100% olives from small batches. Nothin' but the juice, baby.

This early-harvest oil comes in at 399 mg/kg of total polyphenols, which is above the 250 mg/kg benchmark set by EU Regulation (No. 432/2012) about high-polyphenol olive oils.

Other facts per 100ml:
Energy: 3693kj / 882kcal
Total fat: 100g
Carbohydrates: 0g
Proteins: 0g
Sugar: 0g
Salt: 0g

We open up our independently-verified, lab analysis reports to showcase the oil's quality.

Taste Profile

Fruity

Mellow
Medium
Intense

Peppery

Mellow
Medium
Intense

Bitter

Mellow
Medium
Intense

Customer Reviews

Croatian oil

Absolutely delicious!

Excellent peppery oil

This is delicious. Mellow at first and then the flavour builds to a long peppery finish. Light bodied and perfect for dipping home made foccacia.

Yummy and so good for you too. Thank you 😊

FAQs

The Olive Oil Club delivers a range of delicious oils throughout the year. At this time, you can't sign up for a subscription to just one oil, though you can order larger formats, sets, or our bottles when you need to top-up.
Our producers all farm organically to the EU standard without any synthetics or chemical "cides". However, as we only work with small farms, some have not yet been certified—which is why we cannot legally label them as “organic”, unless it has the certification. Many of them, though, are well on their way in the conversion and audit process (it takes a few years), so we hope to share more soon.
Currently, our Greek oil from Sparta and our Italian oil from Tuscany are the only oils in our range that can carry the organic certification on its label.
Welcome you to the fascinating, yet very confusing world of extra virgin olive oil. We wrote an article all about the term "cold-pressed" if you'd like to read up in detail, but in short, it is just a marketing buzzword, as by legal definition in the EU, extra virgin olive oil is extracted without any heat or chemicals and only comes from the “first pressing” (more like squeezing) of the olives—which is exactly the definition of our products.

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Club Exclusive: Croatian Extra Rare Olive Oil

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

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Small-batch. Family-owned. Organically-farmed.

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