Not Your Grocery Store Olive Oil
Our olive oil comes from one farm in Türkiye. We pick the olives early in the season while they are still green, and we press them the same day. We do not blend from multiple sources. This keeps the polyphenols high, the acidity low, and the taste bright and peppery. People take a spoon in the morning like a tonic. You can also just put it on tomatoes and bread and you will taste the difference right away.
Polyphenols
Over 460 mg/kg
Acidity
Below 0.3%
Harvest
October, Early Harvest
Origin
Single grove in Manisa, Türkiye
International Awards
Gold - New York IOOC, USA
Gold - EVO IOOC, Italy
Best in Country - Anatolian IOOC, Turkey
Gold - London IOOC, UK
Gold - JOOP, Japan
Gold - CIOOC, Canada
From Our Family Farm in Türkiye
It starts with my father. He planted our olive groves in Manisa, Türkiye, and he built them the traditional way. That is the oil I grew up with.
I built my life in music. I am a concert pianist, and I moved to the United States to study and perform. After I moved, I kept cooking the way I grew up, but I could not find an olive oil here that tasted like ours at home: bright, green, and intense.
So I decided to bring that same oil here and build Zagoda around it. I work directly with my family’s harvest, I handle the import myself, and I know exactly where every bottle comes from. When you buy from us, you are getting the oil my family actually uses, not something blended and private labeled for a shelf.
Products
"Read the reviews and decided to take the plunge. 1st tasting spoon and I was over the moon. I can not recommend it enough."
Y.L.
Ultra Premium starts at the grove.
We harvest our olives early while they are still firm and green, not soft and overripe. Unripe fruit gives very intense flavor and extremely high polyphenols, but it also means very low yield. It can take 3 to 4 times more olives to fill one bottle at this stage. We accept that loss to get an oil that is sharp, fresh, and alive, instead of flat and oily.
Pressed immediately after harvest.
Olives start to lose quality the moment they are picked. We don’t pile them for days or truck them around. We take them straight to be crushed and separated right away, while the fruit is still fresh. Fast milling keeps the taste clean and green, and keeps defects from forming.
Truly cold pressed.
“Cold pressed” should mean the oil is extracted without added heat. During extraction we keep temperatures low (under about 80 °F / 27 °C), so the oil keeps its natural aroma, color, and nutrients. Many bottles say “cold pressed,” but if the paste is run too hot, you get more yield and less character. We refuse that trade.
Extremely low acidity.
To qualify as extra virgin, olive oil has to test at or below 0.8% free acidity. Ours consistently tests below 0.3%. That tells you the olives were healthy, picked carefully, and processed without damage. Low acidity means a cleaner taste, longer stability, and a smooth finish you can actually sip by the spoon.
Very high polyphenols.
Polyphenols are natural antioxidants in fresh olive oil. They’re what give real early-harvest oil that peppery kick in the back of your throat. Anything above about 250 mg/kg is considered high. Our oil regularly tests above 500 mg/kg. That intensity is the sign of true early harvest; not blended, not tired, not flat.
FAQ
Because this is real early-harvest extra virgin olive oil. We use 3-4 times more fruit per bottle, pick by hand while the olives are still firm and green, press immediately, and never blend with filler oil. You are paying for purity, not packaging.
Cook with it. Sauté vegetables, eggs, beans. Finish soups. Dress salads. Pour it warm over bread. This isn’t a fragile “don’t touch it” oil. It’s daily food.
Each variety tastes different. Arbequina is bright and green with a clean pepper finish. Ayvalık is smooth and buttery. Trilye is deeper, nutty, more savory. That pepper in the throat? That’s natural polyphenols.
All of our oil comes from our family grove in Manisa, Türkiye. We bottle and ship directly. No middlemen, no bulk blending.
Yes. We have multi-bottle options and can do larger quantities for events, holidays, and corporate gifting. Contact us at info@zagodaoliveoil.com or 734-215-5356.