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Club Exclusive: Croatian Extra Rare Olive Oil - Citizens of Soil

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

Croatian Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Citizens of Soil

Croatian Olive Oil Extra Rare

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

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

—Intense & Grassy—

Loved by Gordon Ramsay, this high-quality and sustainable variety made the top 10 globally for small-batch oils. This Croatian olive oil is limited to 6 bottles per order.

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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 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.
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

The real Macoy

A lovely oil to drink with a peppery note at the back of the throat. I have stopped taking pain killers for my chronic back pain since starting extra virgin olive oil. Having tried various oils I will be continuing with this brand.

Liquid Gold from a Darker Dimension

I have stared into the abyss… and the abyss tasted faintly of peppered grass and sunlit stone fruit. Citizens of Soil’s Croatian Extra Virgin Olive Oil is not merely an oil — it is a portal. A shimmering conduit to something older, purer… braver. I drizzled it, with trembling hand, over vanilla ice cream — a pairing so sublime it almost tore a hole in space-time.

This is no supermarket slick. This is alchemy. Rich, potent, unholy in its depth. The kind of oil that speaks in tongues and dreams of the Adriatic. You don’t use this olive oil. You summon it.

If you’re not ready for enlightenment via emulsion, look away now.

But if you are… pour. Pour and believe.

Croatian Extra Rare Olive Oil

Fabulous

I love this connection to the earth and it tastes real.

Croatian oil

Absolutely delicious!

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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.

Recipes & Guides

Cherry pavlova with olive oil

Tangy yoghurt cream, crunchy pistachios, crisp meringue, and juicy cherries—these single-serve pavlovas are a sweet sensation for eyes and taste buds alike. Take your pavlova up a notch with the addition of extra virgin olive oil. An extra drizzle of our Greek olive oil or August’s Portuguese Club EVOO is the ideal pairing to cut through the sweetness and adds a shine of gold to this dessert. Purple fruits are also packed with polyphenols, adding even more goodness. If you don’t have fresh ...

Ceramics for the Olive Oil Club

From Porto to pride of place in the kitchen, one of your most requested products—the Citizens of Soil ceramic—is here. Within months of us launching in 2021, people kept telling us how they’d love to have our oil in a nice ceramic. At events and tastings, customers would ask about the best way to store their oil and show us different vessels they had used to refill our signature pouches. When you make a normal glass olive oil bottle as pretty as ours—it’s natural that people want to see what...

Tofu, olive oil, and shiso.

Soft, silky tofu, fragrant shiso, and peppery olive oil come together for a simple yet refreshing and incredibly delicious dish. Shed a new light on EVOO, and find inspiration from Japan this golden hour with this recipe from Yoko Nakada (@houseoffuumi). Although more commonly found on pastas, anchovies or lemon, the intense & peppery nature of Francesca's limited-edition Sicilian EVOO balances the smoothness of the tofu and makes it the perfect pairing for this dish. Quick, delicious, ...

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