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Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting
Learn the about the various flavors of Greek extra virgin olive oils and how to best pair them with foods at home. All oils explained by a professional oil sommelier.
Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting With Light Lunch
Learn the about the various flavors of Greek extra virgin olive oils and how to best pair them with foods at home. All oils explained by a professional oil sommelier.
'With an Olive Tree, a Vineyard and a Boat, You Can Rebuild Greece'
Odysseas Elytis
Discover Greece's liquid gold
The olive tree was from the antiquities the symbol of Athens. The winners of the Olympic games had an olive branch crown…what else can prove more the importance of evoo for Greece….
The History of Olive Oil
The olive tree is native to the Mediterranean although it remains unclear whether it originated in ancient Greece or Asia Minor. The use of olives though dates back to the 8th millennium BC when Neolithic people collected wild olives.
It is considered that Phoenician traders introduced the production of olive oil in Greece as well as the rest of the Mediterranean, though the trees themselves have existed in Greece long before that as evidenced by the fossilized olive tree leaves found in the volcanic rocks in the islands of Santorini and Nisyros. These fossils are considered to be around 50,000 to 60,000 years old.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil And The Mediterranean Diet
In 2020 the Mediterranean Diet was selected as the best diet of 2020 by the US News and World Report.It’s a healthy diet with small portions and extra virgin olive oil at its center. This diet has a variety of health benefits including weight loss; the olive oil satisfies hunger and as a result people can eat less food.
Why Greek Olive Oil is the Best in the World
Greek olive oil, or “Liquid Gold,” as Homer called it, has been part of Greece’s history since antiquity. It is an irreplaceable nutritional component of the Greek diet.
Ancient Greeks used olive oil as part of their efforts to enjoy a healthy life and to promote longevity, as well as a cosmetic for the skin and hair. Today, Greek olive oil is considered by most to be of the highest quality worldwide.
An Introduction to Olive Oil Tasting
Olive oil quality has been prominent in the news recently, with headlines telling us that our extra virgin olive oil might not really be extra virgin.
A pall of suspicion has been cast over the kitchen cupboard; how are we to know if that pretty bottle of olive oil has been lying about its extra virgin status? What’s a consumer to do?
Greek Olio Nuovo Days
If you are an Olive Oil addict, or just curious, join us to celebrate the new harvest in Athens. OLIO NUOVO DAYS is a celebration for olive oil producers, a blind tasting for Chefs who create special diners and a Master Class to learn more about EVOO
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Elaiolado Makris PDO is extracted exclusively by mechanical means from the fruits of the indigenous Makri olive of the species Olea Europea, which is cultivated in the designated zone of Alexandroupolis, from the village of Makri
It is typical of Lesbos and mainly produced from the Kolovi variety, which endows it with its strong, fruity character. Its blend however, includes also the varieties of Adramytiani and some Latholia.
This unique extra virgin olive oil is produced exclusively by Koroneiki variety olive trees, up to 100 years of age, in the small mountainous village of Ancient Skillountia, at the sacred land of Olympia
Our organic olive trees of Koroneiki variety, in the sacred land of Olympia, remain untouched by human intervention.
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