Product Description

“Stalos” is a special single-varietal, extra virgin, green olive oil made from the centuries-old olive trees of the “kolovi” variety, in the Gera area of Lesvos.  The unripe, green olives are collected by hand during the first month of harvest, usually in October and always in a limited quantity.  The unparalleled quality of green olive oil combined with the authentic, traditional methods attach a special character to our olive oil and differentiate it from common extra virgin olive oils. The excellent quality, the design and personalised packaging make it necessary for your diet and a unique gift for any occasion.

QUALITY & TASTE:

“Stalos” has a rare, rich fruity flavour with the strong aroma of tomato leaves, green almonds and the aromatic herbs that grow in the area. Its positive fruity, bitterish and spicy properties comprise its unique excellent quality. Green olive oil is a natural juice that maintains intact all the basic components of the olive fruit and therefore all the properties that are so beneficial to our health.

It contains all the vitamins and provitamins of olive oil, monounsaturated fats and polyphenols that protect cells from oxidative stress, reactive oxygen species and free radicals. For these reasons it is a main staple of the Mediterranean diet and considered a healthy diet product.

HARVESTING OF THE OLIVES & OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION:

Green olive oil is produced relatively early in the year, before the fruit has matured; it is still unripened and green. The olives are collected in mid October by hand, only from the “kolovi” variety of olive trees and milled on the same day. The daily harvest is taken to the olive mill right away where the cold press method ensures the unaltered taste, quality, unique aroma and light green colour of the oil. It is a limited quantity olive oil of the highest quality that is produced and stored under the strictest food health and quality control conditions.

HISTORY:

The Hatzinikolaou family from Gera in Lesvos has been harvesting and producing unique single-varietal olive oil from our privately-owned, centuries-old olive groves in Stalos since 1900. It was our great grandfather who lovingly started the cultivation of our olive groves and every year went through the necessary steps (pruning, ploughing, natural weed control meaning animal grazing) in order to maintain the olive grove healthy and thus ensure the quality of the olive oil.

Following the family legacy we wanted to continue the tradition. Thus we combined effort, diligence, gusto and the love of our ancestors with modern milling means to “trap” this precious, beneficial “juice” in a special bottle that highlights its uniqueness.