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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)
The family olive grove in Tunisia, mature trees and dry ground in the late afternoon

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

04

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.

  • One bottle

    1 bottle

    $18

    $18 a bottle

    See whether you like it.

  • Half a Year

    6 bottles

    $105

    $17.50 a bottle

    About right for one person who cooks properly.

  • The Year

    12 bottles · 1 carton

    $204

    $17 a bottle

    A carton. A household that cooks every day, for a year.

  • Enough

    24 bottles · 2 cartons

    $396

    $16.50 a bottle

    Two cartons. Split it with your sister.

  • More Than Enough

    48 bottles · 4 cartons

    $720

    $15 a bottle

    Four cartons. Restaurants, and families who buy together.

Nothing is for sale yet. Leave your email and you will be first in the queue when the December pick opens.

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 sheet

Not on the shelf yet

Arriving in the USA in January 2027. She only sells what she picked.

First press, first email. We will send December's lab sheet and tell you when the bottles land. Nothing else.