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Tasting Notes for Our New Olive Oils from the 2012 Harvest
Mother Nature was good to our olives during the 2012 growing season. Fine weather here in northern California delivered a flavorful batch of new oils, which we’re now bottling. I taste our oils (a lot!) during the milling and blending … Continue reading
From Crusty Bread to Ice Cream – 10 Easy Ways to Enjoy Good Olive Oil
We keep a cruet of our extra virgin olive oil at the dinner table. We drizzle the oil on food. It brings out flavor and depth. Fruity Arbequina, for example, draws out the sweetness of a porterhouse steak. Our grassy … Continue reading
Does an Olive Oil’s Color Tell You Quality? No. But It May Tell You Other Things
Harvest time begins within just a few weeks. We plan to begin picking our olives next month and pressing them into extra virgin olive oil. It reminds us of a question we hear about olive oil: Is the color of … Continue reading
Olive Oil Primer: “Earthy,” “Greasy” & Other Taste Defects
The term “earthy” can be a good thing when tasting a wine. Do a Google search on the words “earthy” and “wine” and Pinot Noir, Bordeaux and Riesling come up. Wines made from the Sangiovese and Petite Sirah grapes pop … Continue reading
Olive Oil Primer: A Glossary of EVOO Tasting Terms
Wine connoisseurs have their own vocabulary to describe a wine. They might use the words chewy, jammy, or (hopefully not) flabby and corked. In the extra virgin olive oil business we have our own sometimes colorful vocabulary to describe an … Continue reading
Olive Oil Primer: A Look at the Koroneiki Olive
Little olives can deliver a potently spicy punch. That’s the case with our Koroneiki olive, one of the olive varietals we grow in northern California. Koroneiki hails from Greece, and it’s become popular among Golden State olive growers. I rate … 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
You Can’t Judge an Extra Virgin Olive Oil by its Color
Extra virgin olive oil comes in various colors, from golden to green. But don’t let color sway your judgment about the actual quality of the oil inside the bottle. It would be like judging a book by its cover or … Continue reading
Olive Oil Primer: Can You Judge Olive Oil by its Color? (No)
Just like you can’t judge a book by its cover or a horse by its color, you can’t tell whether an olive oil will taste good by its color. Olive oil expert Fran Gage says as much: “Color isn’t an … Continue reading
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Hold an Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting at Home
Here’s something you can do with your friends that’s a bit out of the ordinary: hold an extra virgin olive oil tasting at your home. It’s similar to a wine tasting – except you “slurp” the oil rather than sip … Continue reading
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