Rio Largo Gold Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Origin: Rio Largo Olive Estate, Scherpenheuwel Valley

Style: Medium

Tasting Notes: Fruity with almonds and herbs, a hint of artichokes, lightly bitter and a lingering spiciness.

The terroir, with water on demand from the Breede River and, is perfect for olive growing with high sunshine hours, cold winters and minimal disease. Summer daytime temperatures can be high but the afternoon south easterly breezes from Cape Agulhas, the “wind doctor” in local parlance, brings relief and cool nights.

 

Rio Largo Premium Blend Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Origin: Rio Largo Olive Estate, Scherpenheuwel Valley

Style: Intense

Tasting Notes: Grassy nose, great fruit on the palate with a very nice tactile perception, good bitter and lasting pepperiness reminiscent of creamed spinach and rocket leaves.

 

Groote Vallei Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Origin: Groote Vallei Olive Estate, Tulbagh

Style: Medium

Tasting Notes: Cut grass with peppery flavour and aroma.

This extra virgin oil is extracted on the farm within 24 hours of picking. The process of ‘cold extraction’ maintains the fresh olive’s delicate flavours.

 

Willow Creek Estate Blend Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Origin: Willow Creek Olive Estate, Nuy Valley

Winning Oil: Willow Creek Estate Blend Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Style: Medium

Tasting Notes: Verdant aromas of freshly cut grass and herbs.  On the palate the complexity deepens with the flavour of artichokes while the balanced bitterness and pungency give body to the oil.

Beneath Rabie mountain Willow Creek’s trees thrive in lime rich soil while a climate of extremes improve the flavour profiles of the olives.

 

Morgenster Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Origin: Morgenster Olive Estate, Somerset West

Style: Intense

Tasting Notes: A first whiff is of intense, freshly cut grass with secondary aromas of green tomatoes, almonds, artichokes and perhaps even green apples will become for more evident.

Morgenster Wine & Olive Estate is a thriving olive and wine farm dating back to 1711, producing internationally acclaimed Bordeaux-style wines and extra virgin olive oil of astounding quality.

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