🍍 Aivalos Natural Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Cold Pressed from Türkiye
I finished my bottle of Aivalos last week! 🍍 This is one of my favorites. It is a cold-pressed EVOO from Ayvalık olives on the Aegean coast (Türkiye). It tastes strongly of pineapple to me. The bottle is also beautiful, and has some internal design so that it pours out in little neat glugs. You will think many times over you are out, only to pause and see that you are not! It almost felt like I had a never-ending, magical bottle. Of course, until it actually was empty. 😂😭 I was not able to find a date on the bottle for when the olives were harvested, but the website says they do an early harvest (by hand) in October, and a later (ripe olive) harvest in December and January. One interesting observation is that their packaging (and advertising of the oil for Sizzle or specialty cases) parallels Graza. I hypothesized that either the underlying distributor was the same, or it was more of a trend that took off for both. I do not think the first is true, as Graza is from olives sourced a...
