Frantoio Grove Extra Virgin Olive Oil *PRE ORDER

You know when people talk about topping vanilla ice cream with olive oil? This is the kind they mean. It tastes fresh, herbaceous, and vibrant, with a bright, peppery intensity, notes of herbs and fresh-cut grass, and a clean finish.

It’s made from estate-grown Frantoio olives. Each year the growers wait for the short window when the fruit is just ripe enough to develop balanced aromatics and body, yet still green enough to give a complex, layered oil rich in polyphenols. The olives are picked at the first sign of ripening and milled on site within 90 minutes for freshness, flavor, and balance.

Use it as a finishing oil. Drizzle it over salads, fresh vegetables, or vanilla ice cream, or dip bread in it.

Details

• Estate-grown Frantoio olives
• High polyphenol, peppery, herbaceous
• Milled on site within 90 minutes of picking
• Certified Extra Virgin by the California Olive Oil Council
• Regenerative Organic Certified (CCOF)
• Packed in a glass bottle with a wooden cork- Plastic-Free
• 375 ml

Made in San Martin, California, USA 

More About the Maker: Frantoio Grove is a family-run olive grove and mill in San Martin, in California’s South Valley. Jeff Martin, a fifth-generation California farmer whose family has grown grapes in Yolo and Napa since 1870, planted the first Tuscan Frantoio trees in the mid-2000s with his wife, Pam, starting with about 3,500 trees. The trees took years to bear, and the first meaningful pressing came in 2010. The grove earned organic certification in 2017. In 2020, Jeff and Pam’s son Patrick, a sixth-generation farmer and former coffee roaster, returned to lead the business.

That year, a harvest lost to weather pushed the family to look at the soil. They moved to regenerative farming: multi-species cover crops, no tillage equipment, compost tea, and almost no outside inputs, with livestock helping to mow and fertilize. The grove is now Regenerative Organic Certified, and the family has placed the ranch under an agricultural conservation easement so it stays farmland. The olives are hand-picked at the first sign of ripening and milled on site within 90 minutes. Frantoio, a Tuscan variety, was chosen because it makes a peppery, pungent oil that is high in polyphenols. Their oils have won awards, including a gold medal at the 2024 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition, and each November they press Olio Nuovo, a fresh, unfiltered oil sold only for a few weeks.

✦ Certifications and Details: Regenerative Organic Certified, Certified Organic (CCOF), California Olive Oil Council Certified Extra Virgin, Family-Owned (6th generation), Estate-Grown, Milled On-Site, Hand-Picked, Land Conservation Easement, Award-Winning (NYIOOC 2024), Made in California, Plastic-Free Packaging

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