THE MESSINIA ORCHARD

Own second 17 acre (7 hectares) owned orchard lies at the feet of Ithomi Mountain in Messinia, surrounded by a steep creek and a small river, which is nature’s way of protecting the olive trees from frost in the winter along with parasites and extreme heat in the summer. There, one can find about 1,500 Koroneiki variety olive trees, which are a hundred years old. There, during harvest period, the olives are hand picked and taken daily to our stone mill grinder in specially constructed boxes (in order to achieve air circulation and the olives not to squash between themselves), so that the oil will be extracted on the same day.