It's Here....

First shipment of the 2012 harvest is here!!!!! Look for a store launch this week to get yours!!!!

San Damiano Extra Virgin Olive Oil

I also picked up this olive oil (San Damiano Extra Virgin Olive Oil) at Central Market on the same trip I picked up the previous review. I found this on a discount shelf. This was an interesting oil. The bottling struck me as odd. It was a clear bottle and had a cork as a top. A first from anything else I have seen. All of the bottles had a slight amount of sediment at the bottom of them. I'm not sure if the clear bottle had something to do with that. I do know that a clear bottle is not advisable for any olive oil. but knowing we would consume it fast and the fact that it was cheap I picked it up. For those who don't know, light is olive oil's worst enemy next to heat. So I am not sure why the producer chose this bottle.

Aside from the ill advised bottle and curious sediment, San Damiano Extra Virgin Olive Oil had a nice buttery taste. It had the slight burn of a good extra virgin olive oil. It was deviod of many of the hints of grass, artichoke, and other notes you get out of other olive oils from the region. By the way San Damiano is made from Taggiasaca olives and is milled in Liguria Italy. This was a nice oil if you are looking for something that is not really complex to cook with. Far from lampante but also far from the high quality stuff on the market today.

Trampetti

It's been a while since we posted a review. We are still hard at work and on pace for our 2013 launch. A few weeks ago we went to our local central market (I find myself now going directly to the olive oil section in every grocery store) and bought this bottle. It is Trampetti Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil. It is from the Umbria region of Northern Italy and is milled from Moriaolo olives. Trampetti is picked, milled, and bottled in one day. As you will notice the bottle is wrapped in foil. This is the producers attempt to protect the oil against harmful light that causes olive oil to spoil. It also makes for a nice bottle, which my wife likes!

In terms of taste we really enjoy this oil for a number of reasons. The first is that it is a complex oil that has good grassy notes and a peppery finish, which is a characteristic we prefer. It also has hints of artichoke in it. I did read online that some notice apple hints in it, however we did not get that. I think the thing we enjoy most about Trampetti is that it is very smooth and well balanced.Some very vibrant tasting oils can be over powering. So when Sarah and I have had our fix of really strong olive oil Trampetti is a nice go to for complex flavor but a smoother finish. One of the supplier we are looking at carries this oil and we hope to be able to add it to the line up in the future.