Spartan Rolling Hills (SRH) – Certified Organic since 2006
“Bringing the very highest quality products to the everyday table.” From our groves from the Peloponnese Laconia Greece, one of the world’s renowned areas for producing excellent olive oils. Harvested in Greece, bottled and packaged in Canada.
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This years’ harvest 2020 is on the shelves of your favourite food store. As with past harvests, it has the expected flavour of the excellent olive oils from Greece….bitterness, peppery, unfiltered…simply an excellent pure and raw Agourelaio Organic and Regular Olive Oil. And if you have not tried our olives, take a jar home and get addicted to them. They are less salty, bitter and briney. Our Spartan recipe from our Yiayia and Papou cures the olives in red wine vinegar and packages them only in pure EVOO with a pinch of salt.
In Greece, people regard it as the prime extra virgin olive oil, the oil that the farmers keep for their own use.
Agourelaio literally means “unripe oil”. people also sometimes call it “protolado” or “first oil”. The reason is simple: it comes from pressing the first olives harvested, olives that are green – in other words, not yet fully ripe.
Extra virgin olive oil made with green olives has several distinctive characteristics: first of all, “agourelaio” has a very low acidity; typically below 0.5%, when the limit for extra virgin olive oil is 1%. Its color is an intense emerald green. Finally, its aroma is reminiscent of freshly cut grass and in the mouth it delivers a peppery aftertaste.
Of course, all this quality has a price: as it takes nearly twice as many green olives to produce the same volume of oil as when you use riper fruit, Agourelaio costs that little bit more.
Judging from the number of people queuing up to get their taste of the first oil to pour out of the press it must be worth it.
Because producers usually keep Agourelaio for their own use, it rarely reaches the consumer’s table. Spartan Rolling Hills “Bringing the very highest quality products to the everyday table”
