High Polyphenol Olive Oil

Our Early Harvest is the high polyphenol olive oil in the range: around 500 mg/kg total polyphenols (plus or minus five percent), measured by HPLC to IOC Doc 29 at pressing. We print the method next to the number on purpose. Polyphenol figures without a named method are marketing, not measurement, and the biggest numbers in this category come from a different test scale entirely. Here is why the numbers do not compare, and here is what high polyphenol actually means.

The number comes from four choices that all cost us yield. Memecik olives are picked green at the start of the season from our family’s grove and partner farms within about 25 km, pressed within hours at our own mill in Milas, held in the malaxer under thirty minutes with no added water, and stored under nitrogen. Our oil is tested at an ISO 17025 accredited lab in Türkiye. Email us and we will send the report for the harvest year on your bottle.

What it tastes like: cut grass, artichoke, green almond, and a black pepper burn at the back of the throat. That burn is oleocanthal. It is the point. Pour it raw over bread, tomatoes, yogurt, beans, and grilled fish, or take it by the spoonful if that is your routine. If you want to taste what harvest timing does to an oil, The Pairing puts Early Harvest next to our rounder Mature Harvest from the same trees.