WHAT IS FLAVORED OLIVE OIL?
It is possible to create a flavored oil in a variety of ways, the main ones being:
- mechanical pressing
- infusion
- maceration
- by adding artificial flavors
At Oliviers & Co, we have chosen to press our ingredients (herbs, citrus fruits, spices...) simultaneously with the olives to produce our flavored oils. We select fresh, high-quality ingredients, with no artificial additives, to obtain 100% natural oils. The oils produced by simultaneously grinding olives and herbs preserve all the flavors of the aromatic ingredients, giving our aromatic oils a powerful, natural taste.
Oliviers & Co aromatic oils have thus naturally become a must-have in the collection, highly appreciated for their aromatic richness and the quality of their production.
HOW TO FLAVOUR AN OLIVE OIL?
To create flavored olive oils by simultaneous pressing, Oliviers & Co perpetuates an ancestral Puglian process.
In this region, it was customary at the end of the olive harvest to degrease the millstones by crushing fresh lemons. The fragrant olive oil obtained was reserved for family use.
Today, Oliviers & Co's expertise continues this traditional know-how and offers a wide collection of remarkable, delicate aromatic oils, produced by our long-standing partner in Puglia.
To obtain these unique oils, we carefully select freshly picked ingredients: aromatic plants, condiments, and citrus fruits are crushed simultaneously with the olives, with no added flavorings.
HOW DO YOU MAKE BASIL-FLAVORED OLIVE OIL?
In Puglia, bright green meets grey-green: basil grows at the foot of the olive trees. To make basil-flavored olive oil, the mill master picks fresh basil in September and fills it into stainless steel vats, before pouring in olive oil. This is called maceration. The second stage takes place at the time of the olive harvest, in November. This time, the basil is harvested at the same time as the olives, and ground together under a stone millstone—an all-natural product produced in Puglia, southern Italy.
HOW TO MAKE LEMON-FLAVORED OIL?
A rare oil born of Italian tradition: fresh lemons are added to the olives during pressing. An all-natural product made in Puglia in southern Italy, where the practice of pressed olives and citrus fruits from Abruzzo has been reinvented. In Abruzzo, it was customary at the end of the olive harvest to crush lemons to degrease the millstones. Today, the lemons are pressed fresh and whole, at the same time as the olives.
OLIVE OILS FLAVORED WITH GARLIC, THYME, CHILI PEPPER, MINT, MANDARIN, OR SHALLOTS
On the same principle, we pick herbs, condiments, and other citrus fruits at the peak of ripeness to capture the maximum aroma, then grind them fresh with the olives. Each oil contains only olives and the stated aromatic ingredient - nothing else. For our chili oil, for example, a few lemons are added to sweeten the oil produced, which would otherwise be very pungent.
ORGANIC FLAVORED OLIVE OILS
In our constant quest for innovation and the transition to organic, we have also developed organic aromatic olive oils:
- Freshly pressed organic olive and orange: Organic oranges release their natural essence and blend harmoniously with the subtle fragrance of fresh olives. A new fruity aromatic olive oil with the intense taste of orange zest for innovative cooking, which goes perfectly with balsamic vinegar, Modena white condiment, sweet raspberry vinegar, or honey & ginger vinegar.
- Freshly squeezed organic olives and limes: An exclusive recipe, the olives are squeezed with real limes. The result is surprising: an emerald green color and an intense flavor of lime zest.
- Freshly pressed organic olive and basil: It took two years of work to obtain this tasty, perfectly balanced new organic oil. Freshly picked olives and basil are crushed together a few hours after harvest to produce this fragrant olive oil. The finesse of organic basil from Calabria blends perfectly with the freshness of olives picked green.
- Organic pressed olive, garlic and pepper: Freshly picked olives and garlic seasoned with black peppercorns are ground together to produce this fragrant olive oil.
TRUFFLE-FLAVORED OLIVE OIL
After much trial and error, we opted for a truffle aroma rather than any other flavoring technique.
Why an aroma for our truffle-flavored specialty?
Because it's the method that best reveals the flavors of this tuber, respecting the finesse and subtlety of the aromas and fragrances of white or black truffles, while remaining affordable. A truffle olive oil using simultaneous grinding of the ingredients would require a very large quantity of truffles to reproduce the flavors of our oil.
The aromas developed, whether black or white truffle, is the fruit of a long process to get as close as possible to the natural scents of the precious tuber and to find the right intensity of taste.
