The Freshest Olive Oil Imaginable
Milled within hours of coming off the trees and shipped to you in just days of us bottling it, you've never tasted olive oil so fresh. Our seasonal Olio Nuovo is only available in November and December each year in limited quantities. Try it before it's gone!
Meet Olio Nuovo, Our First Harvest Seasonal
Our freshest and most special olive oil. Olio Nuovo means “New Oil” in Italian. It’s the mark of a new harvest, celebrating the first bottled olive oil of the crop. This oil is fresh, fruity and robust in flavor, like no other olive oil you’ll taste. Four generations of olive growers have brought this oil to your table. Check out the video below to see the harvest in action at the Lucero family groves.
It's Harvest Time!
Come along on our seasonal harvest as owner Dewey Lucero takes you through the family's award-winning olive groves.
The Making of Olio Nuovo
Ever wonder just how olive oil is made? Scroll down to read about and watch some behind the scenes stories about how we bring you the freshest olive oil you've ever tasted. From the family grove in California, to your plate.
Just the Right Blend - Finding the Perfect Flavor
You may notice the variety of olive color in our photos. Each stage of fruit growth and maturity has a slightly different color and flavor. From bright green to deep purple, we work to choose an intentional mixture of our olives to achieve the exact taste balance in each bottle.
Once picked from the trees, the olive fruit will be ground and milled within hours to ensure the flavor and quality of the oil is in its peak condition.
Watch the video below to see just how many olives go into just one bottle of our award-winning oil.
Behind the Harvest
Learn about what we look for when we harvest our olives and just how many pounds of olives it takes to make a bottle of our award-winning oil!
From Grove to Mill - Making the Freshest Oils
After our olive fruit has been picked, it is transported to the mill to begin the process of cold pressing the olives to make olive oil. Amazingly, we can make olive oil within 45 minutes of the olives arriving at the mill.
First the olive fruit is placed into a hopper that will catch and remove leaves, debris, and stems.The fruit is then moved up a conveyer belt that brings them to a washer to remove all foreign matter, and cleans the olives to prepare them for the next process of the macerator (crusher).
Here the olives will be crushed into a paste that will tear the flesh of the cells and release the oil from the fruit. At this point the paste is then put into a malaxer, where it spends most of the time in the process, mixing, and separating the oil from the flesh and water of the olive.
The Finishing Touch
From the malaxer the paste is pumped into a decanter which spins at a high rate of speed (over 1,600 rpm) separating the oil, water, and solids. Leaving you with a bright beautiful stream of fresh new olive oil.
The last step involves a “polisher” which is another centrifuge that spins the oil even faster (over 3,000 rpm) and helps to clean the oil from larger particles left from the decanter.
What makes this process so special and unique is that the olive oil is removed from the olive purely by mechanical means, there are no chemicals used or heat, like most other oils require to manufacture. This is one of the many reasons that extra virgin olive oil is so healthy for you.
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Limited Edition
Now that you know a little more about this special olive oil, we hope you're excited as we are! Only available in November and December, don't miss this season's newest harvest.
Special Edition Gift Box
One of our favorite combinations, in a snazzy two-bottle gift box. This gift box includes one bottle of our fresh Olio Nuovo and our most popular Traditional Balsamic Vinegar, with rich flavor and thick consistency.
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