Our Farmers, Our Press

Nestled into the Albanian coastline in a small city called Vlorë, the Musai family presses a limited quantity of our olives each November in a small, EU and USDA Organic certified mill. Our entirely organic, 100% Kalinjot olives are grown and harvested on neighboring family farms where the trees grow wild and are often hundreds of years old. Each family may own half a dozen trees which they have tended for generations. The olives are hand selected for ideal ripeness and quality and then carried - often on foot or by mule - to our press where they are carefully cleaned and cold-extracted the same day that they leave the tree. This type of small scale natural food production has the best results and our oil is no exception -- since 2013 our press has won multiple gold medals in Italian, Croatian, and U.S. International Tasting Competitions and "Best Domestic Oil" in the National Albanian Tasting Competitions. We are proud of those results!