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Name: Portuguese Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Brand: Citizens of Soil
SKU: PT-FRT-2023-Bottle-500-Bundle
Price: 30.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

—Intense & Peppery—

A multi-award winning, small-batch oil. Floral, clean and peppery, this olive oil is packed with antioxidants and farmed regeneratively by Ana who also mills this in her own small mill.

375ml Bottle

£30.00

One-off purchase

Regeneratively farmed. High in polyphenols. Very small batch.

Introducing a multi-award winning single estate extra virgin olive oil from the Alto Alentejo wine region of Portugal. This oil is made one of the most inspiring producers we've ever met, Ana Cardoso, on her 10 hector plot, where she farms *and* mills award-winning oils herself.
This is one of our "Extra Rare" limited batches and is best used as a finishing EVOO to keep the high level of antioxidants and peppery flavour intact.

Harvest: October 2023.
Variety: Galega.
Origin: Fronteira, Alto Alentejo, Portugal.
Process: Superior category extra virgin olive oil obtained directly from mechanical (never chemical or heated) means. ≤ 0.15 acidity. The olives are milled within hours of being picked. This oil is filtered.
Agriculture:Organically-farmed with regenerative practices including grazing animals and a focus on biodiversity.
Soil type: Clay loam.
This oil is superbly made by Ana Cardoso and Paolo Morosi.

Ana is one of those rare finds in the EVOO industry—a thoughtful farmer and a meticulous miller. This superhero skillset has landed her the following awards for her very first harvest doing it all:

⭐️ Silver Award at the 2022 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition (USA)
⭐️ Silver at the 2022 Berlin GOOA (Germany)
⭐️ Silver Medal at the 2022 EVO IOOC (Italy)
⭐️ Silver at the Amsterdam AIOOC 2022 (Netherlands)
⭐️ Silver at the Olive Japan 2022 (Japan)

Learn more about why she's so very special to us.
Tastes like...

Nose: The fragrance of apples, with olive leaves and fresh-cut green grass, followed by lemon peel.

Palate: It's like a bouquet of herbs. Clean. Moderately bitter. There's also a slightly sweet note, almost almond-like with a persistently peppery finish, like chile.

Pairs with...
Cheesy dishes. Perfect for drizzling on tomato soups. Very happy in a martini. Dreamy in cacio e pepe.
100% olives from small batches. Nothin' but the juice, baby.

This early-harvest oil is packed with antioxidants, and comes in at a whopping 799 mg/kg of total polyphenols, which is above the 250 mg/kg benchmark set by EU Regulation (No. 432/2012) about high-polyphenol olive oils.

Other facts per 100ml:
Energy: 3374kj / 821kcal
Total fat: 91.2g
Carbohydrates: 0g
Proteins: 0g
Sugar: 0g
Salt: 0g

We open up our independently-verified, lab analysis reports to showcase the oil's quality.

Taste Profile

Fruity

Mellow
Medium
Intense

Peppery

Mellow
Medium
Intense

Bitter

Mellow
Medium
Intense

Customer Reviews

So tasty

Such incredible depth of flavour, dripping over toasted seedy sourdough and topped with ground pumpkin seeds, absolutely delicious

Portuguese EVOO

Very intense and interesting. I’m drinking a shot glassful per day and wiping the dregs from the glass with some bread so I dont lose even a drop.

Olive oil as it should be

This is the best olive oil I've had so far – tastes so fresh and exactly as olive oil should. Love the high polyphenol content too! I drink this straight for health and to get the full flavour hit as well as pouring into a saucer with a splash of good quality balsamic vinegar to dip bread into.

High Polyphenols.

Love this oil, its great to drizzle on cereals in the mornings and the health benefits it brings.

EVOO on cereal We're yet to try this combination, but it sounds like an amazing morning antioxidant boost. Thanks so much for the tip and this review, Nigel. It really means a lot!

Great drizzler

Absolutely packed with fresh flavours, green and citrussy. Love it to add flourish to dishes or simply as a sneaky spoonful. A lovely oil 🧡

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This cake encapsulates the taste of spring in Greece, combining sweet almonds and sour nespoli fruits. It’s best enjoyed with a cool drink, under a shady tree. Or, simple close your eyes & let the delicious evocative flavours of this Olive oil cake transport you to the Med. All across the Mediterranean this time of the year, nespoli trees gift us with their soft, sweet-sour orange fruits.These are sometimes hard to come across in the UK, so if you can’t find them, switch them up for an...

Introducing a small-batch EVOO from Northern Portugal

It seems like everyone in the olive oil world knows Marije. Ambitious, but decidedly artisan, she represents a new wave of olive oil producers who are increasingly improving the whole industry while keeping it small. This is a story about friends. In the early days of our olive oil adventures, we stumbled around Portugal meeting some of the most exciting women coming up in the space. That led us to Ana, our second producer ever and one who makes multi-award winning, high-polyphenolic extra vi...

Meet Ana: our olive oil producer from Alentejo, Portugal

Meeting this producer actually changed the course of our business. She became the goal of what an “ideal” producer looked like and established a level of quality that’s truly a rare find in the olive oil industry. As we turn down the roads to get to the farm, the path turns from pavement to dirt. This was our very first “sourcing” trip, after only having worked with our close family friends in Greece. We didn’t really know what to expect or what we were getting into.... But nevertheless, we t...

FAQs

Currently, the only subscription we have is for our Olive Oil Club, which will provide you with a range of delicious oils throughout the year.
Our producers all farm organically to the EU standard without any synthetics or chemical "cides". However, as we only work with small farms, some have not yet been certified—which is why we cannot legally label them as “organic”, unless it has the certification. . Many of them, though, are well on their way in the conversion and audit process (it takes a few years), so we hope to share more soon.
Welcome you to the fascinating, yet very confusing world of extra virgin olive oil. We wrote an article all about the term "cold-pressed" if you'd like to read up in detail, but in short, it is just a marketing buzzword, as by legal definition in the EU, extra virgin olive oil is extracted without any heat or chemicals and only comes from the “first pressing” (more like squeezing) of the olives—which is exactly the definition of our products.

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Portuguese

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

£30.00

About this oil

Regeneratively farmed. High in polyphenols. Very small batch.

Meet the producers

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Health & nutrition

Taste Profile

Fruity

Peppery

Bitter

Customer Reviews

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