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Tag Archives: tasting extra virgin olive oil
Our Miller Bob Talks About Sorting & Tasting Oil From 800 Truckloads of Olives
Our head miller Bob Singletary is a pioneering figure in California’s extra virgin olive oil industry. Bob has been crushing olives and making olive oil for more than three decades. We asked Bob about his job and our fall harvest, … Continue reading
Do Those Blue Tasting Cups Really Hide an Olive Oil’s Color?
A friend thought my pair of olive oil tasting cups would make perfect candleholders. She might just have a point. We recently saw a “Tweet” about the cobalt blue vessels: “Research shows that the blue EVOO tasting glasses don’t even … Continue reading
Olive Oil Primer: What is the Koroneiki Olive?
I like to rate the pungency of our extra virgin olive oils by how many times people cough when they swallow the oil during a tasting. I tell people our Koroneiki EVOO is a “two or three cougher.” It packs … Continue reading
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Tagged California olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, Koroneiki olive, Koroneiki olive oil, Olive Oil, tasting extra virgin olive oil
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Olive Oil Primer: What is the Arbosana Olive?
I hooked up with two colleagues recently in Denver. The weather was chilly and wet, a bit unusual for Colorado in July. But we had a great lunch at The Capital Grille. We ordered seafood – I can recommend the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbosana olive, arbosana olive oil, California olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, Olive Oil, tasting extra virgin olive oil
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Tasting Extra Virgin Olive Oil
An olive oil tasting – like a wine tasting – lets chefs such as you understand the oil’s aroma, flavor and peppery quality, or pungency. Those features form the core attributes of true extra virgin olive oil (EVOO). A tasting … Continue reading
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Tagged California Olive Ranch, chefs, Corti Brothers, Tasting EVOO, tasting extra virgin olive oil, tasting olive oil
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