While visiting Greece for first time in many years, with my son to experience the olive harvest, we met such amazing people and tasted several outstanding early harvest olive oils.
It’s a family affair. Traditionally many olive groves are past down through the generations and we were there to experience the pride of their hard work. It’s a year of farming with all of the risks that nature has to offer, ending with celebratory hearts. It was hard to find anyone from Greece that didn’t have olive trees! They are everywhere and precious to everyone.
While most harvests in Greece end in December, the award winning Extra Virgin Olive Oils were being harvested in early November. This is to capture the olives while still green. Olives, from an early harvest will yield much less oil, but with exceptional flavor, more polyphenols and amazing antioxidants. For this reason, olive oil is really the only oil that you can actually taste just how healthy it truly is.
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