Making Our Olive Oil
A lot goes into getting each bottle of Wild Groves from the olive grove to your table. Peek behind the scenes to see our process.
Harvest
Olives are picked from the olive tree, both by hand and by machine, then travel by truck from the grove to the mill within 24 hours to maintain freshness and quality. On average it takes 7 lbs of olives to produce one 500ML bottle of olive oil!
Washing & Crushing
The olives go into a hopper for cleaning and leaf removal, then are crushed into a fine paste using a hammer mill or disc.
Malaxing
The olives mix and spend the most time here, allowing the olive oil to be released from the meat of the olive.
Extracting & Polishing
Olive paste is pumped into a large decanter spinning at 3,000 rpm to extract the oil by centrifugal force, a continuous process that can run 24/7 during harvest. The olive oil is then run through a faster spinning centrifuge to clean it, at 6,000 rpm. Then it’s ready to bottle and eat!
Finishing
The oil is pumped into tanks for natural racking, storing, and packaging.