Entelia (Kreta Food)
Kreta Food has its roots in Southwestern Crete, where in 1908 the owner's family founded their first olive mill. More than a century later, the company is the principle producer of premium olive oil on the island. Located in a region blessed with abundant sunshine, excellent soil conditions, gentle sea breezes, and a temperate climate, Crete is the ultimate land for cultivating the ultimate fruit. The olives are grown on small family farms where every step of the growing process benefits from the owners' personal attention. The exact moment of ripeness is precisely determined, picking is done by hand, and the olives are crushed within hours. The result is an amazing and unique, fragrant oil.
Oro Bailen Reserva Familiar Picual
Located in the town of Villanueva de la Reina in the province of Jaen, Oro Bailen is sited in the province's Sierra Norte in the foothills of the Sierra Morena, a Mediterranean forest full of a wide variety of flora and fauna. Owned and operated by the Galvez Gonzalez family, they are able to oversee the various phases of production, providing full traceability, from the formation of the fruit on the tree to the final packaging, ensuring an excellent quality product.
Creta Verde 5L Tin
A very small artisan family-owned business, Cretan Taste specializes in traditional olive oil products produced from the locally grown olives of Western Crete. The family carries on a time-honored craft passed on from generation to generation, which dates back to ancient Greece when olive oils were a very important aspect of daily life. All of their oils are cold-extracted from the olive fruit without any other treatment, maintaining its unique taste, flavor and beneficial properties.
Librandi Clementine
Located in Vaccarizzo Albanese in Cosenza, Calabria, the Librandi farm was founded in 1967 by Pasquale Librandi following a century-old familiar tradition of olive production. From a surface of 220 hectares, 153 are dedicated to the production of 27,000 olive trees of the Nocellara del Belice, Carolea and Frantoio varieties. Applying only organic farming methods, the Librandi family harvests each cultivar separately from October to November, crushing them within just a few hours in their own mill. The experience and passion of Pasquale Librandi is carried on by his five children who instill the same passion of their father, while applying skillful knowledge and modern innovation to their products.
Venta del Baron (Mueloliva)
Over 70 years ago Mr. Muela Mateo Velasco, founder of Mueloliva, decided that the future of olive oil was in the perseverance of the tradition, rather than massed production. With this wise decision, he became the first to demonstrate that in the olive oil sector, attention to quality will provide the best result, a project far ahead of its time. Mueloliva, located in Priego de Cordoba, is located on a fertile plain at the foot of the Sierras Subbe̩ticas where mountains and olive trees dominate the landscape. A unique microclimate, characterized by high rainfall and large temperature variations, along with a mountainous terrain, give the area specific nuances that make it different from any other. Because the Muela Oil Mill has a unique and exclusive system that allows the extraction of oil without any water or heat input during the process, all attributes of the olive oil are preserved, resulting in an extra virgin oil with a high concentration of tocopherols, phytosterols and phenols, all important nutritional components.
Guglielmi Crushed Peperoncino
Located in the renowned production area of Andria, Puglia in the Castel del Monte territory, Fratelli Guglielmi and his family have been producing outstanding extra virgin olive oils since 1954. Combining both tradition and modern technology with careful attention to every stage of the cultivation and production process, Fratelli Guglielmi produces extra virgin olive oils of the highest quality, pressing their olives no more than 12 hours after harvesting. Thanks to the care and passion for the land and its fruits, the Guglielmi family continues to gain recognition for their outstanding oils.
Estepa Virgen (Oleoestepa)
Oleoestepa was founded in 1986 for the purpose of uniting the efforts of more than 4,000 olive growers and 16 associated oil mills located in the Estepa and Puente Genil districts of Seville and Cordoba. The richness of the soil and unique climate of the area, strongly influenced by the Becerreo and Aguila Sierras, provides an ideal condition for the varieties of olives typical of the region. With a large team of highly-trained technicians, oil production masters, agricultural engineers and quality assurance managers working together with cutting-edge technology, Oleoestepa is able to produce some of the world's finest extra virgin olive oils.
Pruneti Viuzzo
In the heart of Chianti Classico, a territory famous for its excellent agricultural cultivation of olive trees, the young brothers Pruneti, passionate about extra virgin olive oil from an early age, live as guardians of a family tradition handed down over four generations. The Pruneti family personally oversees all stages of production through to the final product, ensuring that their oils reach the highest levels of quality. Applying both ancient wisdom and new knowledge to their production process, Pruneti's extra virgin olive oil has earned its place as a true symbol of the land. Their company is consistently awarded by the editors of Marco Oreggia's Flos Olei guidebook and given the Top Farm ranking of 97/100 in 2014.
Oro del Desierto Coupage
Oro del Desierto is a family-owned and operated business located in the Tabernas region of Southern Spain. In this unique rugged landscape with more than 3,000 hours of sunshine a year, fantastic extra virgin olive oils are being produced with great attention and care. The hand-harvested olives are cold-pressed using 100% renewable energy within eight hours of harvesting, resulting in a 100% ORGANIC Extra Virgin Olive Oil of the highest quality and flavor. Through the use of clean energy, Oro del Desierto understands the olive grove as an ecosystem in which they intervene and take great care in the management of the soil, plants, rainwater and wild animals, essential for maintaining the ecological culture.
Quattrociocchi Crushed Basil
Since 1888 the Quattrociocchi family has been dedicated to the cultivation of olive trees, handing down the tradition and passion generation after generation. The farm, still the residence of the Quattrociocchi family, is situated among organic olive groves on the sunny hills of Alatri in the heart of Ciociaria. Today the Quattrociocchi family produces some of the best extra virgin olive oils on the worldwide market, gaining international recognition and receiving prestigious awards such as the Hercules OLIVARO, the International Prize BIOL, and given the Best Quality Prize by the editors of Marco Oreggia's 2012 Flos Olei guidebook as well as being rated a Top Farm with a score of 96/100.
Oro Bailen Pearls
Located in the town of Villanueva de la Reina in the province of Jaen, Oro Bailen is sited in the province's Sierra Norte in the foothills of the Sierra Morena, a Mediterranean forest full of a wide variety of flora and fauna. Owned and operated by the Galvez Gonzalez family, they are able to oversee the various phases of production, providing full traceability, from the formation of the fruit on the tree to the final packaging, ensuring an excellent quality product.
Frantoi Cutrera Tonda Iblea 3L Tin
For generations the Cutrera family has been dedicating their lives to the cultivation of olive trees and olive oil production, a profession carried on for decades with passion and love that binds the family to its land. The company's origins date back more than a century ago to 1906 when the Cutrera family first began to cultivate and care for their olive trees in Chiaramonte Gulfi, a small town in south-eastern Sicily. In 1979, Giovanni Cutrera, the head of the family, founded their very first mill the help of his wife, Mary. Over the years Giovanni's children, Maria, Giusy and Salvatore joined their Dad on his farm, and in 1999, decided to open a second mill. The Cutrera family pays diligent attention to each stage of olive oil production: harvesting the olives by hand to minimize damage, transporting the olives to the mill within 6 hours and cold-extracting the oil with scrupulous attention. By maintaining a balance between tradition and innovation, Frantoi Cutrera continues the legacy that the farm's members have been putting into practice for over a century.
Amoris California
After tasting hundreds of different extra virgin olive oils, the Olive Oil Lovers team have selected the most outstanding oils from the principal production areas around the world. Special care was taken for each of the oils to be an ideal representative of the production area in terms of flavor and aroma. The AMORIS line of regional and monovarietal extra virgin olive oils was created to provide our customers with the opportunity to discover the distinct characteristics of each olive variety and region, and to open infinite food-pairing possibilities for the creative home cook.
