'Collana Verde' Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Alfonso and Indre live in Highams Park, East London. A few years ago they committed their life savings to buying four hectares of terraced land with over 700 olive trees and a small vineyard in Campania, Italy, where Alfonso is from. Olives have been farmed there for centuries.
They are now a part of the increasing number of honest producers working hard to create the finest quality extra virgin olive oil while preserving a heritage in danger of being lost in rural areas.
Farming organically, they are passionate about sustaining the incredible biodiversity of their land, the richness of its soil and the ideal microclimate. They want to share this experience as widely as possible and with an amazing medium - their honest and beautiful Collana Verde extra virgin olive oil.
Here at Lancasters we are immensely proud to stock Alfonso and Indre’s quite exceptional olive oil.
Collana Verde extra virgin olive oil is made from a blend of Itrana, Leccina, Frantoiana and Cicinella Sessana olives, picked by hand and cold-pressed on the same day. This ensures that it retains all the flavours from the olives, with notes of fresh almond, artichoke and green grass.
The oil is full of nutritional value and very low in acidity. Acidity levels for this, the October/November 2020 harvest measure only 0.25% - well below the 0.8% threshold for extra virgin olive oil.