CastelaS Extra Virgin Olive Oil Noir D'Olive AOP Vallée de Baux de Provence 500ml

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A hearty, cold-pressed, intense olive oil made from black olives of protected origin from the Valley of the Baux de Provence.

There's a rounded generosity and sweetness of the black AOP olives of Vallée des Baux de Provence. Typical and with a beautiful aromatic harmony, this olive oil is characterised by these fruity matured olives. You will get aromas of prune, jam and sourdough bread, with dominant aromas of black olive.
Works wonderfully used cold in salads, to make a mayonnaise or an aioli, as well as with a fillet on fish, with mushrooms and mashed potatoes. More than suitable for seasoning summer vegetables: pepper, eggplant, zucchini.

The CastelaS mill revisits the traditional practices of the ancients of the Valley of the Baux de Provence to create Olive Black. This olive oil comes from 4 varieties of olives from the orchards, picked at full maturity, and stored in palox sheltered from oxygen. Then begins the delicate work of a slight fermentation, associated with a know-how in order to regain the taste of the candied black olives of the grinding mills of the ancestors.

All Castelas bottles have a built-in pour spout to enable slow dosage.

After living for 15 years on the wide-open plains of Arizona, Catherine and Jean-Benoît Hugues decided to go back to their roots. They returned to their native Provence to dedicate themselves to their passion: the olive tree.

The Domain Castelas’ story began in 1997, when they fell in love with some old olive trees, planted in south-facing land in the rocky range of Les Alpilles, in the locality of Castelas. Today, Domaine Castelas produces olives on 110 acres of Appellation d’Origine Protégée groves in the Vallée des Baux de Provence, and in 160 acres on the Plaine de Crau.

In this mill, at the foot of the Château des Baux, Catherine and Jean-Benoît combine know-how, passion, exacting standards, technique and all of their olive farmers’ sensibility to create intensely powerful olive oils year after year, for pleasure constantly renewed.

In their characterful oils you will find the terroir of Les Alpilles, the varieties typical of the appellation (Salonenque, Aglandau, Grossane and Verdale) and the miller’s manual craft.
The CastelineS Collection unveils their oils’ treasures of flavour and complexity, distinguished regularly by prizes at the Concours Général Agricole in Paris.

SKU:: 443618

Ingredients: 100% DOP Provencal black olives