Kalamata Reserve Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Intensity: Robust
Crush Date: October 2022
Country of origin: Greece
This limited production early Kalamata has intense pepper on the finish and is highly astringent, with notes of arugula, green tea, apple peel and rose petal. The combination of picking the fruit at an extremely low green maturity index (early harvest) and the minimal processing resulted in high phenol content and the highest amount of Oleocanthal we have ever seen at 453.2 ppm.
Our Kalamata Reserve is also our extremely high phenols of 1576. The high phenol Kalamata Reserve has:
A total Phenol content of 1,576 ppm which includes 1,022 ppm of Oleocanthal using
NMR method (64% oleocanthal) a total phenol content of 505.3 ppm which includes 338.1 ppm! of Oleocanthal using HPLC method (67% oleocanthal)
(IOO887)
Organoleptic Taste Panel Assessment
Fruitiness: 4.5 Bitterness 3.0 Pungency 4.0
Measurement
| Name | Indicates | Value |
| Biophenols* | Antioxidants | 501.3 ppm |
| Free Fatty Acids | Great for Cooking | 0.13 |
| Oleic Acid | Freshness | 75.1 |
| Peroxide Value | Freshness | 7.36 |
| DAGs | Quality | 97.8 |
| PPP* | Freshness | <0.7 |
| Squalene | Freshness | 3,001.5 |
| A-Tocopherols | Antioxidants | 439.7 |
*As measured at time of crush