Many consumers want organic products because they offer a certified USDA assurance of freedom from pesticides and the adherence to farming practices that are good for the environment. These are…

Last year, MillPress won "Best of Class", six gold medals, and one silver medal for their olive oils! But you might be wondering: How do you win medals for olive…

We can't help but be proud of the olive oil (and balsamics) that we serve you and especially so with our supplier MillPress knocking it out of the park yet…

The quick answer is: nothing.  Many varieties are used for both oil and pickling and in some places where farmers primarily grow olives for oil, they pickle those varieties for…

Table olives are hand-harvested so that there is no visible bruising in the finished product. Oil olives can be harvested by hand but are more typically mechanically harvested. For large…

Professional tasters pour a small amount of EVOO into a stemless blue tasting glass.  The blue glass obscures the color of the oil so that the taster is not biased…

Quality is the ultimate goal. To succeed in this endeavor, olives are harvested at the greenish-yellow stage of ripeness (so, not really ripe at all) as early in the harvesting…

The most critical variable (and least understood!) in producing fine olive oil is the ripeness level of the olive fruit when they are harvested. The level of ripeness affects both…

While olive trees are fairly easy to grow, they are cold sensitive, they don’t like soggy soil, and they only produce fruit under very specific conditions. Olives will not tolerate…