Guess what time of the year it is? It's olive harvest season!!!!!
Remember this word when buying Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Polyphenols
Quite often when consumers go looking for "olive oil", their primary focus is "how does it taste?" While we certainly want our food to "taste" good, I can not emphasize enough the importance of what's "inside" your olive oil that matters as much as the "taste". The truly magic ingredients inside your olive oil are called Polyphenols. These magic ingredients are know to help prevent blood clots, reduce blood sugar levels, and lower heart disease risk. They may also promote brain function, improve digestion, and offer some protection against cancer.
How this relates to YOUR olive oil is the following. Extra Virgin Olive Oil (not olive oil) has much, much higher levels of polyphenols. Furthermore, the longer your even Extra Virgin Olive Oil sits after harvest and is potentially exposed to light and air, the lower and lower amount of polyphenols remain.
As I recently reported, many of the "olive oils" you find in your grocery store have been on the shelves for over a year and are completely devoid of any health benefits and certainly very little or no polyphenols remain.
All of this and so much more are reasons to know your extra virgin olive oil supplier, ask for their polyphenol analysis if available, and certain know how long it has been since their olives were harvested and pressed.
IL DIVINO's 2021 harvest Extra Virgin Olive Oil is derived from olives harvested on October 28, 2021 in the Valtiberina region of Tuscany and pressed the following day. A late freeze in April 2021 resulted in many olive blossoms being lost and limiting the total volume of olive oil that could be produced. However, the olive tree blossoms that survived resulted in excellent olive oil due to the long hot 2021 summer in Tuscany. We love it and we hope you do too. www.ildivinooliveoil.com/shop
The 2021 Harvest IL DIVINO Extra Virgin Olive Oil arrives in less than one week!!! So excited. As I wrote earlier, the olive oil production is very limited in Tuscany this year due to an April freeze but the olive blossoms that survived produced amazing fruit which we turned into your 2021 IL DIVINO Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Order now to be the first to receive this year's harvest: www.ildivinooliveoil.com/shop
IL DIVINO - Born in Tuscany
Does your olive oil look like this?
IL DIVINO Extra Virgin Olive Oil Pressing
The beginning of the IL DIVINO pressing process
The Tuscan Way
When local Tuscan farmers bring their yearly crops of olive to the mill, they anxiously wait for their beautiful oil to take home for the next year of their family's use.
Oh The Beauty of Freshly Pressed Tuscan Olives
Freshly Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil
The Making of 2019 IL DIVINO Extra Virgin Olive Oil
This year's IL DIVINO olives on their way to becoming our extra virgin olive oil. We are in Tuscay now preparing the oil to be shipped to the USA but order now for delivery by November 10th. There is NOTHING like just-pressed 100% Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil - www.ildivinooliveoil.com/shop
So excited to be in Tuscany for the 2019 olive harvest. - you’re going to love this year’s IL DIVINO Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2019 Olive Harvest Getting Near
There is nothing like being in Tuscany during the olive harvest (we leave in a few weeks). Join us next year to participate: www.ildivinooliveoil.com/tuscany-tours
Already getting excited for the fall harvest!!
The Tuscan Way
The Tuscan Way - here at IL DIVINO we are not a huge corporation that purchases olives from all over the world and produces oil in huge factories. We are just a very small company trying to provide our customers the very best authentic 100% Tuscan Extra Virgin Olive Oil. This video typifies the source of our olives for our wonderful olive oil - small Tuscan farmers lovingly growing their olives, family picking the olives, and then delivery to our olive mill.
2018 IL Divino Extra Virgin Olive Oil safely on its way to the USA (you’re going to love it). Celebrating hanging out in Anghiari this afternoon. #ildivino #evoo #extravirginoliveoil #oliveoil #tuscany #italy #organic #anghiari
Sneak Peek
For those of you who do not follow us on Instagram (ildivinoevoo) - Just had to give you a sneak peek at this year’s amazing IL Divino Extra Virgin Olive Oil even though we are still in Tuscany. If you think the color is amazing, you have got to taste it!!! Clearly the best we have ever offered! www.ildivinooliveoil.com
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Production in Tuscany
So looking forward to seeing this in October. This year promises to be an amazing year for IL DIVINO Extra Virgin Olive Oil!!
The Making of IL DIVINO Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Well My Bags Are Packed, I'm Ready To Go (in October). This is going to be a fantastic year for IL DIVINO Extra Virgin Olive Oil!!
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