Picked green. Pressed within hours. Poured raw.

This is a finishing oil, the kind you taste before you taste the food. Pressed from 100% Koroneiki olives grown in Messenia, Greece, it smells of fresh cut grass, green banana and apple, with the balance of bitterness and pepper that tells you the olives were picked early.

The details

• Maker: Primis Imports, New York
• Origin: Messenia, Greece
• Varietal: 100% Koroneiki
• Polyphenols: 521 mg/kg
• Classification: extra virgin, early harvest, cold extracted, superior category
• Taste: medium fruity, with arugula, artichoke, basil and sweet pepper
• Size: 500 ml (16.9 fl oz)

How to enjoy it

• Over vegetables, grilled fish and fresh bread
• On a simple salad, with nothing else but salt
• Best raw, where its character shows

Store somewhere cool and dry, away from direct sunlight.