5L Extra Virgin Olive Oil (Lions Creek – medium)

Style:
Medium – Harvest date – 2024

Cultivars used for this oil:
Koroneiki

Tasting notes:
aromatic green olive, artichoke, and green tomato scents, with notes of fresh walnuts. Mildly bitter, latent persistent spice. Balanced, complex.

Best paired with which food:
Great all-rounder. Excellent with tomato-based dishes, pasta sauces, tomato, rocket and parmesan salad. All meat dishes. Particularly good with rare T-bone or sirloin steak, done a la Fiorentina.

Producer history:

Lions Creek Extra Virgin Olive Oil is crafted in the heart of the Karoo, where the Leeu and Gamka Rivers meet.

The estate spans 345 hectares across the Karoo and Nuy Valley, with olive groves grown using sustainable practices. The dry climate ensures healthy, disease-free olives, and natural ground covers replace chemicals for weed control.

Lions Creek produces a variety of single-cultivar oils and is world renowned for producing an exceptional cold pressed extra virgin olive oil.