Olive oil Variety package: Classic DOP Blend plus Single-Varietals

Description

This variety package includes a mix of our classic Velzur DOP blend olive oil as well as two monocultivars.

We do not use pesticides nor do any of the surrounding farms.

From the same producers who won the Platinum prize in the London Olive Oil competition and the Gold prize in the Berlin Olive Oil competition. From an agricultural family who has been growing in the Orvieto area for centuries. 

VELZUR DOP Blend:

• Blend of the following olive varieties: Frantoio, Leccino, Moraiolo, Tendellone varieties. Harvested from certified DOP olive groves in Umbria

ARRIGO – Leccino single-varietal

• Single varietal olive oil using 100% Leccino olives

ELLEN – Tendellone single-varietal

• Single varietal olive oil using 100% Tendellone olives

While several Italian regions produce olive oil, Umbria produces one of the very highest quality oils. Our olives come from Umbrian hills owned by a storied, aristocratic family for many centuries.

Our family have farmed the hills around Orvieto for centuries. This is a land full of Etruscan tombs, Roman ruins, fertile soil for vineyards and olive groves in a staggeringly gorgeous countryside.

We are deep in the Umbrian countryside and use no pesticides. Every olive grows in the sun and wind and rain on these beautiful and historic hills. Our olive varieties include frantoio, leccino, and moraiolo. We press them almost immediately after they are harvested from the trees, which is critical for a pure and salubrious product.

We offer a small, boutique production grown at a high elevation compared to most producers. We harvest early, resulting in lower quantity but much higher quality.

Our olive oil, unlike many supermarket olive oils, has the following characteristics:

• 100% of olives sourced from one place like ours. Seek 100% Italian or 100% Spanish or 100% Greek, but never a mix. Beware of European Union oil mixes. Also beware of “Tuscan” oil that actually uses Tunisian olives but processes in Tuscany – sadly you may never really know the truth as they are not required to put this on the label. With our oil, we personally pick the olives off of our trees here in Umbria. Every olive grew in the Italian sun and wind and rain on those hills.
• Extra virgin olive oil, not just olive oil. This means that the olive oil can have a maximum of 0.8% acidity.
• Polyphenols. These naturally occurring olive compounds have significant health benefits towards digestion, diabetes, heart health, and cancers. Did you know that olive oil is classified as a medicine by the FDA? This is due to its extraordinary health benefits.

We produce small batch quantities only, as we are not interested in large scale industrial production.

On the business side of things, we express airmail your olive oil directly to you. It is not sitting on a container ship for weeks or in a warehouse at the port. We are also officially registered with the FDA and work with an American importer to facilitate the customs processes.

This is not your average grocery store olive oil!