An encyclopedia, true stories the sellers won’t tell you, and notes in two languages. From someone who spent twenty years in the trade and has nothing left to sell.
In June 2026, cheap oil is everywhere — but Spain has already sold most of this year’s crop, and early field data points to a poor…
The three most valuable words in olive oil tell you where the glass was filled — not where the olives grew.
Olive oil hit record prices in 2023–24 because of drought in the Mediterranean — but olives grow on five continents now (California, Texas, Australia, NZ, Chile,…
As 2025 closed, the cupboards were full and prices low — but cheap Tunisian imports and below-cost farming had the industry asking what a fair market…
By late 2025, Spain was producing and exporting at record levels — yet its growers tallied some €1.9 billion in losses, selling below cost for a…
Heading into the 2025/26 season, forecasts pointed to a big rebound harvest — good news for the cupboard, and a fresh headache for the growers who…
In autumn 2025, the IOC’s first 2025/26 estimate saw world output easing about 4% from the record rebound year — a hot, dry summer trimming Spain’s…
In August 2025, EU olive-oil exports rose while their value fell more than 40% — the clearest sign yet that the great price spike had fully…
By mid-2025, with the harvest recovered, Spain’s olive oil was flooding back onto world markets — exports above a million tonnes, and prices tumbling toward pre-crisis…
In June 2025, US olive-oil imports roughly doubled year-on-year to a record monthly high as cheap, plentiful oil flooded back — the demand side of the…
After two years of record highs, 2025 brought the opposite shock: a rebound harvest sent olive oil prices tumbling — and left many farmers unable to…
With the worst of the crisis passing, the 2025 World Olive Oil Competition rolled out its results — a fresh map of who is pressing the…
Its beauty, its origins, its history — the varieties, the fields, the pictures.
“What does lavender have to do with olives? Well — I’m glad you asked. I just love both, and to me they’re the perfect match.”