First cold press · 16.9 fl oz
One grove. One variety. One press.
Mild, green almond, a small cough at the back.
It will make you cough a little at the back of the throat. That is the polyphenols talking. It means the oil is young. It fades over the year. Use it while it argues back.
- Olive
- Chemlali
- Grove
- One family, two hours south of Tunis
- Harvest
- December, picked by hand
- To press
- Within six hours
- Extraction
- First cold press
- Bottle
- Dark glass, 16.9 fl oz (500 ml)
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One grove
We buy the whole December pick from one family. Not a blend of whatever the co-op had. When you buy a bottle you are buying their year.
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Picked in December
Early, while the fruit is still green. It gives less oil and more taste. That is the trade every good grower makes and most bottlers don't.
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Pressed in six hours
Olives start to ferment the moment they leave the tree. Six hours is the difference between fruit and vinegar. That's the whole trick.
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Dark glass, straight away
Light and air are what turn good oil ordinary. Bottled the same week, sealed, kept out of the sun.
One harvest a year
Buy the year, not the bottle.
The grove is picked once, in December. When that harvest runs out it is gone until the next one. In Tunisia families buy the year’s oil together and split it. You can do the same.
Buy what you will finish before next December. Olive oil is a fresh product and we would rather you ran out.
Shipping included, anywhere in the United States.
Launch prices, shipping included. Both go up after the first harvest.
One bottle
1 bottle
$24
$24 a bottle
See whether you like it.
ReserveHalf a Year
6 bottles
$129
$21.50 a bottle
About right for one person who cooks properly.
ReserveThe Year
12 bottles · 1 carton
$238
$19.83 a bottle
A carton. A household that cooks every day, for a year.
ReserveEnough
24 bottles · 2 cartons
$456
$19 a bottle
Two cartons. Split it with your sister.
ReserveMore Than Enough
48 bottles · 4 cartons
$899
$18.73 a bottle
Four cartons. Restaurants, and families who buy together.
Talk to us
Not yet
We are thinking about a bigger tin.
101 fl oz (3 L)
For people who cook every day, and for kitchens. Printed tins carry a serious minimum order, so we are counting hands before we commit. Tell us you want one and we will count you. No card, no charge, no obligation.
The olive is Chemlali.
Chemlali is the most planted olive in Tunisia. Small fruit, modest yield, a milder and rounder oil than the sharp varieties further north. It is not fashionable. It is what grows in our grove, and picked green and pressed fast it makes the oil this whole site is about. Green almond first, then the small cough.
The lab sheet
Every batch we bring into the United States is tested, and the sheet goes up on this site. December’s numbers go up when the harvest is pressed.
Read the lab sheetNot on the shelf yet
Reserve the December pick — $24
Charged now. Ships in the US early 2027 — we email you the week it leaves. Cancel any time before it ships, no questions.
Reserve a bottle · $24Not ready to pay? First press, first email. December's lab sheet, word when the bottles land, and a photograph once a month from the grove. Never more than that.