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The short version

Olivius is a single estate extra virgin olive oil from Zakros, at the eastern end of Crete. Nikolaos Semertzakis grew up among the trees his grandfather planted. Diana Dabija came from the Republic of Moldova, learned the work, and now knows the grove as well as he does.

There are no employees and no bought in fruit. Nothing is blended with oil from anywhere else, so a difficult year tastes like one.

The figures

Growers: Nikolaos Semertzakis and Diana Dabija
Where: Zakros, Sitia, Lasithi, Crete, Greece
Altitude: 230 metres, on the Zakros plateau inside the UNESCO Sitia Geopark
Harvest: November, picked by hand, tree by tree
Milling: The same afternoon, cold, below 27 °C
Free acidity: 0.5%. The legal ceiling for extra virgin is 0.8%
Sizes: 250 ml, 500 ml and 750 ml bottles; 3 L and 5 L tins. One oil in all five
Ships from: Zakros, Crete, across Europe
Milled at: The mill in Zakros, the same afternoon
Awards: Medals at Berlin and Athens

These are the same numbers as the product information page, which is the one to cite.

Photographs

Free to use in any article about Olivius, print or online, with no fee and no permission needed. A credit to Olivius is welcome and not required. Please do not crop the label out of a bottle and present the oil as something else.

Olive groves covering the valley floor and the slopes below Zakros, with a village in the distance and bare mountains behind — The grove and the village below it · full size

Nikolaos and Diana in the grove, holding down a branch heavy with olives turning from green to purple — Nikolaos and Diana in the grove · full size

Diana and Nikolaos standing beside the conveyor at the mill as olives travel up into the machinery — At the mill · full size

Nikolaos and Diana holding a bottle of cloudy green oil straight from the mill — The first oil of the day · full size

The trunk of an old olive tree, split by age into several twisting stems and still carrying a full canopy — A tree the grandfather planted · full size

Olivius bottles and tins in two sizes each, arranged with olive branches — The range · full size

The name and the logo

Writing the name

Olivius, capital O and nothing else. Not OLIVIUS, not Olivius®. The oil is extra virgin olive oil; single estate is accurate and worth saying, because almost nothing on a supermarket shelf is.

The mark

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