Robert’s olive oil finally got delivered to me. Thanks to him I am using the most exotic – and probably the most expensive – olive oils available. He went island hopping with Michelle, Crete, Santorini, Paros, Mykonos, Athens, Korfu. One lucky bastard. I am the one who placed the bug in his ears about Greece maybe a year ago and he’s been going there every time he gets the chance to do so. He brings me one or two bottles of olive oil as a token of appreciation. May God make this habit stick for a few more years…
This last one is from Paros and the kalamata from Messinia.
Organic extra virgin, of course...
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Hello
I'm an old fashion traditional olive oil craftsman. I’m the last of my kind.
I produce oil from a single cultivar from trees dating back 4,000. I bottle between 650-1400 bottles of the finest extra virgin olive oil in the world. NO OTHER ARTISAN oil producer COMES CLOSE.
To date you and everybody else...including all the famous chefs, food writers and all so called olive oil experts are totally ignorant on how to select a quality olive oil. You would not know the difference between a bottle of soy oil and a bottle of olive oil.
What I’m about to tell you I KNOW, you have never heard before...I produce an oil that is 34 percent oil. The highest percent known to man in the world.
All high-end artisan oil producers make oil below 10 percent. Supermarket oils are all pomace (only for industrial use).
Never judge oil by flavor, no mater what the top famous lazy chefs say...Never buy a blend or mixed oils. Never buy from a co-op.
I will tell you this, to date NONE OF YOU HAVE EVER TASTED REAL AUTHENTIC TRADIONAL EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL. The way it was made 50 years ago, before the small olive farmers were pushed into co-ops to survive.
I make my oil the way the ancient Spartans and later the Byzantines made it and I have not changed a thing. It helps that my ancestors were brilliant enough find the perfect terroir (cultivar, soil, climate and the hand of man steeped in tradition to maintain it all).
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