Citizens of Soil Organic Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 500ml Glass Bottle

Citizens of Soil Organic Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil, selected to elevate the everyday from five families around Laconia, pair this elegant Greek olive oil with salads, pastas, pestos and potatoes. 

Small-batch. Family-owned. Certified organic.

Variety: Koroneiki & Athinolia

Polyphenols: 500 mg/kg in December 2024.

Origin: Sparta, Peloponnese, Greece.

Process: Superior category extra virgin olive oil obtained directly from mechanical (never chemical) means; achieving 0.17% acidity. The olives are milled within 24 hours of being picked. This Greek olive oil is filtered for quality and freshness. 

The producers.

Introducing this fresh curation from the organic groves of five families around Laconia; Vilia, Kargakos, Christofilakos, Valkanas, and Alexandrakou families.

It's then milled by the Valioti family at their state-of-the-art mill to produce outstanding quality and nutrition.

In the end, old traditions and family legacies have mixed with high-tech precision to deliver thoughtful quality, all centred around a community making its comeback.

Taste & Pair.

Tastes...
Fresh and buttery, with an initial aroma of fresh-cut green grass, followed by the fragrance of herbs and tomatoes. On the palate, it has a smooth and delicate creamy feel, with distinct notes like apples coming through. The finish here is pleasant with a tingling cracked pepper spice.

Pairs with...
Pestos: In fresh, herby sauces like pesto, chermoula, and chimichurris! Perfect to put this over pasta, beans, potatoes.
Salads: Marinating summer tomatoes or drizzled over fruit salads.
Ice cream: Poured over vanilla ice cream with a bit of sea salt, or with crème fraîche over a chocolate cake with berries in the sunshine.

100% olives from small batches. Nothin' but the juice, baby.

This batch came in at 500 mg/kg of polyphenols, which is above the 250 mg/kg benchmark set by EU Regulation (No. 432/2012) about high-polyphenol olive oils.

Other facts per 100ml:
Energy: 3389kJ / 824kcal
Total fat: 91.6g
Carbohydrates: 0g
Proteins: 0g
Sugar: 0g
Salt: 0g

Our Greek olive oil is 100% plant-based, vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free. It's oil good.

Citizens of Soil have opened up their independently verified lab analysis reports to showcase the oil's quality.

About Citizens of Soil.

Michael met Maria on a boat between Santorini and Crete. Her overwhelming Cretan hospitality (which they’re famous for) struck up an instant friendship. Maria came to visit London; Michael returned many times to Greece (soon with the addition of Sarah) and the friendship and ‘extended’ family grew.

With each year and every new visit, we learned more about the culture, the people, the land.

The family are small-holder farmers, making things like wine and fruits, but we became obsessed with the quality and flavour of the oil, in particular.

We started bringing it back for our family and friends in London and the US. Every time we used it, the taste connected us back to Maria's table in Crete. Our friends would try it and re-affirm; there's something special here, y'all...

Our community begins with the farmers. For too long, they’ve been taken advantage of by the olive oil industry—squeezed out of fair profit to fit the global commodity exchange and their oil blended with others so it’s beyond recognition.

We pay our producers above market prices, and directly into their pockets. This way grove owners can focus on the quality of the oil and continue to implement regenerative farming techniques to preserve biodiversity and soil quality.

This is just one way we’re challenging the status quo of the olive oil industry.

You, dear subscriber, gifter and first-time buyer are also a part of this community. Not only does our extra virgin olive oil look beautiful displayed in your kitchen or sitting on the table, it’s also represents your respect for farmers, the environment and your own food experience.

Together, we can learn more with each harvest and enjoy delicious olive oil on more of the food we love.

Buy Citizens of Soil Organic Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 500ml Glass Bottle at Ratton Pantry.