http://www.olives101.com/2008/05/08/olive-oil-a-liquid-market/ Olive, olive oil, olives, oils, news, information, forums, community, all about olive for professionnal to consumers. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:08:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.olives101.com/2008/05/08/olive-oil-a-liquid-market/comment-page-1/#comment-2450 Tony Sansone Sat, 24 May 2008 13:57:54 +0000 http://www.olives101.com/?p=1380#comment-2450 Extra virgin olive oil that costs 220 Euros per liter or anywhere near that price just does not make sense. Some folks will pay for fancy bottles, but will not ask the person making and selling the oil for test reports on the quality of the oil. If there were such a thing as a quality difference for the money charged, then that would be OK. However, there is no estate bottled oil anywhere on earth that can have such a quality to command such a price. In fact, oils from Italy may have more pesticides and industrial pollution in them than oils from other areas. I grow olives, harvest them, and press them into oil on the island of Crete. My EVOO for this year has an acidity of 0.17%, a peroxide value of 6, and a total polyphenol count of 160ppm. I can not find a better quality EVOO anywhere, at least not so far. I bet the 220 Euro per liter oil cannot match my quality. It is far more expensive to make the highest quality oil so my oil must sell for $30 US per liter. One does not have to pay more to have the highest quality and most healthful EVOO. Tony Sansone Extra virgin olive oil that costs 220 Euros per liter or anywhere near that price just does not make sense. Some folks will pay for fancy bottles, but will not ask the person making and selling the oil for test reports on the quality of the oil. If there were such a thing as a quality difference for the money charged, then that would be OK. However, there is no estate bottled oil anywhere on earth that can have such a quality to command such a price. In fact, oils from Italy may have more pesticides and industrial pollution in them than oils from other areas. I grow olives, harvest them, and press them into oil on the island of Crete. My EVOO for this year has an acidity of 0.17%, a peroxide value of 6, and a total polyphenol count of 160ppm. I can not find a better quality EVOO anywhere, at least not so far. I bet the 220 Euro per liter oil cannot match my quality. It is far more expensive to make the highest quality oil so my oil must sell for $30 US per liter. One does not have to pay more to have the highest quality and most healthful EVOO. Tony Sansone

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