Kollias Olive Oil is single source, premium quality, 100% pure cold pressed extra virgin olive oil. We only harvest the olives we grow on our own land just outside of Filiatra in Greece. We only press our own olives into oil, and that's the only oil we sell. We don't use anyone else's olives. We don't use anyone else's oil.
We harvest our olives early in the season, while they are still mostly green. This results in a darker, greener oil with a more distinctive flavor. The Greeks call this early-harvest green olive oil "αγουρέλαιο." Try it by ordering HERE: kolliasoliveoil.com/our-store
Fresh fruit makes the best oil. Our olives are cold-pressed into oil within 24 hours of harvesting.
For as long as anyone can remember, the Kollias family has been an agricultural family. Going back several generations, we've been growing olives on our land just outside the small, rural town of Filiatra in Greece. Our home and a few of our olive trees are pictured above.
Each November, we've harvested our olives and pressed them into oil. As most locals in Filiatra do, we always kept a portion of our oil for personal use for the upcoming year, and sold the rest locally to wholesalers. Once those wholesalers put the oil into the stream of international commerce, processors, re-sellers, and middlemen do all sorts of appalling industrial things to it. In pursuit of profit, they blend it with other oils, dilute it with pomace, re-package it, and re-brand it. Then they sell it as if it were the real thing. The internet is full of information about why the olive oil you might buy from your local grocery store usually isn't what it purports to be, so we won't bore you with all of the sordid details. As a family, we've decided to stop selling our oil to the people who participate in that racket. Instead, we've decided to sell it directly to you, so that you can enjoy our oil the same way we always have.
That's what makes our olive oil different. We only harvest the olives we grow on our own land. We only press our own olives into oil, and that's the only oil we sell. We don't use anyone else's olives. We don't use anyone else's oil. Our olive oil is 100% pure, cold-pressed, extra virgin Greek olive oil. From our trees to your table. Limited quantity, premium quality.