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05:40 — first light

From Moroccan soil to pure olive oil

Before there is oil, there is ground. Stone terraces cut into a slope, dry earth that holds water only where someone taught it to, and rows of trees planted by people who would never taste the harvest.

Follow the light

07:10 — the grove wakes

Older than the ones who tend them

An olive tree measures time differently. Bark thickens and splits, the trunk turns in on itself, and the tree keeps giving fruit long after the hands that planted it are gone.

At this hour the shadows are still long and lie to the west. By midday they will have folded almost entirely beneath the trees.

Watch the ground: every shadow here turns with the sun as you scroll.

08:20 — the case for it

A single grove, not a supply chain

01

One origin

Every bottle comes from the same Moroccan grove. You can point to it on a map.

02

One season

Bottled from a single harvest, so the character of that year stays intact rather than averaged away.

03

Nothing added

Olives and nothing else. No blending, no correction, no oil brought in from elsewhere.

04

Short journey

The distance between the tree and the bottle is measured in hours, not weeks.

05

Harvest dated

The picking date is on the label, so you always know how old the oil in your hand actually is.

06

Bottled at source

Filled where it was made, in dark glass, without an intermediate journey in bulk tanks.

Who are we?
09:30 — the harvest

The fruit decides the year

Green turns to violet, then to something close to black. Too early and the yield is small, too late and the character is gone, so the grove is watched daily until the window opens. Branches are cleared by hand in the morning and leave the grove the same day.

One grovea single estate

One seasonharvested once a year

Same daygrove to press

09:30 — picked and sorted
10:40 — on the record

One estate, on the record

Most olive oil is an average, blended from whatever was pressed that year until it tastes the same in every bottle. Ours cannot be: there is one place it comes from and one fortnight it is made in.

Estate
Single, family run
Region
Morocco
Altitude
780 m
Soil
Thin limestone
Varietal
Picholine Marocaine
Trees
4,200
Harvest
4–19 Nov 2026
Extraction
Cold, same day

“The land decides. We only try not to get in its way.”

12:00 — full light

Discover our extra virgin olive oil

Three sizes of the same oil, from the same grove and the same season.

Shipping to Germany and Switzerland.

13:10 — one season

A year in the grove

The tree works to its own calendar. Everything in the bottle was decided across these twelve months.

4 – 19 November

Harvest

Two weeks, once a year. Branches are cleared by hand in the morning and pressed the same day, and the date goes on the label so you know exactly which year you are drinking.

14:20 — from grove to bottle

Four moves, in order

01

Grown

One estate, one soil, trees spaced for light and air.

02

Picked

Harvested by hand and sorted before it leaves the grove.

03

Extracted

Milled mechanically. Nothing added, nothing refined.

04

Bottled

Filled into dark glass and dated by season.

15:30 — the numbers

Every claim on the label is a number

Extra virgin is a legal grade, not a compliment. It has limits an independent lab tests for. Here is where this harvest landed, next to the limit it had to beat.

Free acidity0.21%

The legal ceiling for extra virgin is 0.80%. Low acidity means the fruit was sound and pressed before it began to break down.

Peroxide value6.4

Measured in meq O₂/kg. This is how much the oil has already oxidised, which is what turns an oil flat and waxy.

Tree to mill6 hrs

Fruit that waits in crates ferments quietly, and no amount of care at the mill undoes it.

Polyphenols412 mg/kg

Higher is better here, and the mark shows where most supermarket oils sit. Polyphenols are the pepper you feel at the back of the throat.

Analysis of the 2026 harvest, batch 01. Placeholder figures — full certificate available on request.

17:45 — the light turns

Heat is the only thing that can ruin it

Everything good about this oil, the pepper at the back of the throat and the green smell when you open it, is fragile. Four moments where it does the most, and one where it simply needs to be left alone.

On warm bread

Poured plain, with a little salt. The simplest way to taste a season.

Over raw vegetables

Tomatoes, cucumber, herbs. Dress at the last moment, just before serving.

Off the heat

Add to soup, grains or fish once the pan is off the flame, not during cooking.

Back in the dark

Cool, dark and steady, away from the stove and the window. Kept there, it holds its character about twelve months.

19:30 — last of the sun

What people say after the first bottle

“Peppery in a way I was not ready for. I finished the bottle in a month and ordered two more.”

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“It tastes like a place. That sounds ridiculous until you try it next to a supermarket bottle.”

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“I bought it as a gift and had to buy a second one because I kept the first.”

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