Olive Oil update and reviews

2 tins left

UPDATE: And it’s all gone. Literally 5 minutes after this post the last 2 tins were sold.

Thank you to all the buyers and we will hope to resolve more and larger imports soon.

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Of the 7 tins available, 5 have already gone. And some have already reached the buyers and they have been kind enough to give me a brief review. Here they are:

One of the customers, who is actually a pretty famous guy in his own right, and an awesome dude, sent me this initially:

Oil arrived! Absolutely delicious. We each had a tasty spoonful and look forward to some great cooking!

When I asked if I could use that line from his email as a review, he promptly decided to write up a longer one. I didn’t even ask, as I say, the man is seriously cool.

Slightly fuller review:

Absolutely delicious, and in a less affected way than the high-end olive oils we see in places like Whole Foods and Erewhon. As lovely as the typical high-shelf olive oils are, they also gain much of their aroma and piquancy from additives trying to recapture the natural richness stripped by filtering. One of our longstanding favorites has been Frescobaldi Laudemio, a lovely offering from Tuscany that is nonetheless filtered and blended from many sources. Compare this with the Ca’ Filo Extra Virgin Olive Oil, which is single-source and entirely unfiltered, and you have a completely different experience in kind. It’s sipping good, with a perfect spicey finish and lingering lovely aftertaste. Looking forward to months of enhanced cooking. And side sips.

The first guy to actually immediately buy a tin, also wrote a very nice email that he said I can use as a review, where he wrote:

I received the olive oil tin on Saturday as expected. I am a pleased customer - I'll be buying again when the next batch is available or a regular process is stood up.

I'm obviously not an olive oil expert. That said, 1) your pricing was a bargain - compared to the Fresh Pressed Olive Oil Club in the US, they charge $92-3 per liter and send 1.5 liters of olive oil a quarter; and 2) I enjoyed your olive oil much better than the recently pressed ones from them. Granted the batch I have right now is from Chile - it tastes smoother vs. the peppery taste I recall from yours, but I suspect the same will be true for the Italian batch.

Thank you,

In a follow up email when I asked if I could use his email as a review, he added the following:

The maximum phenols are why I will use this as a daily preventative shot instead of for cooking or salads, exception being if I bake some bread to eat it with. I definitely enjoy the peppery taste.

And he is quite right. This Olive Oil is actually a health booster. The wife and kids have been ill with a weird “flu” again and as soon as I ensured they were taking their olive oil, lemon and honey (we also have natural honey from proper bees here on our property) hotshots, they started to improve.

Even if you don’t use it for cooking, the Blueprint guy (Brian Johnson) recommends taking at least three tablespoons a day of it. I haven’t spent 2 million USD a year for several years to figure it out, but I can tell you that my direct experience of drinking the oil daily and not doing so is almost miraculous. the point pain I had for moths in my elbows vanished in two days, and only came back if I stopped taking the oil. After several weeks of being more or less regular with the drinking at least a sip of oil a day or putting a bunch of it on salad, even if I stopped for a couple of weeks the joint pain only came back if I again overused my arms for various farm works. And if I did, a couple of oil shots and I would be fine again after a day or two.

The anti-inflammatory properties of this oil are truly something to be experienced before you can appreciate it; and since pretty much every illness begins with inflammation, it’s a general health tonic.

Anyway, given that Trump wants to impose 25% tariffs on anything from Europe, the next batch, if it can even get there, will likely be in the $85-95 per litre range, so if you want one of the remaining 2 tins, you had best order them now.