Wildly Organic

If you place high value on purity and simplicity. our Organic Wild Extra Virgin Olive Oil will rate on the top of your list -- as it does in professional kitchens of in Holland, Belgium and Ireland, where Can Solivera Wild Olive Oil is personally delivered to celebrated chefs.

It is purely and simply organic: On the mountainsides of Cataluña, the olives are harvested from trees which have lain fallow. As the youth left farm villages for the city, there was not enough manpower to tend the groves. Now Can Solivera is encouraging the people to begin harvesting them once more by hand. No chemicals, sprays; no artificial irrigation, no genetic manipulation. Just the noble olive tree laden with fruit, harvested by human hands. It could not be more organic and ecologically pure.

The wild olive trees grow high in the mountainside above the Ebro River – almost a half a mile high - enduring prevailing winds and a cold winter. Inhospitable as that sounds, the weather is a blessing, because a little white fruit fly, ducus olvei, cannot live there at all. This insect is the scourge of most olive growers because their eggs mature into miniscule white worms that live within the olive, and there is no way to remove them. Most olive growers spray the trees with insecticide – and that does the trick.

But organic farmers cannot follow that course, nor are they able to remove the worms by natural means. They hope that the infestation is slight. But for Can Solivera it is not a problem: high altitude, constant winds, cold winters – no little flies, just wild sturdy trees, and pure olives to be crushed for their oil.

Finally the olives are processed in a rural village where they are actually pressed following the same process used since medieval times. The mulch of crushed olives is sandwiched between several large disks of hand-woven esparto grass, and pressed as if it were in a vertical vise. The only difference between then and now is the press is operated by electricity, not oxen.

But this is not just a romantic story: Can Solivera Organic Wild Olive Oil has the flavor of the pure fruit juice that it is – no modern centrifuge to eliminate particles of flavor; no sand or chemical filters which adulterate the product. The final product is decanted into your bottle. Can Solivera Wild Olive Oil is one of the few of the olive oils on the market world that is truly pressed -- as has been the tradition for thousands of years.