ronjhall
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Congrat's Rox.
Hope you can get some sleep, so you can finish the pruning.
Hope you can get some sleep, so you can finish the pruning.
Our Olive Oil, Grand Slam Win in European Competition
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Congratulations Rox. I hope I get to try your terrific oil someday.
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I'm proud of ya Rox, great job!!!
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rox said:
Hi Rox, I don't believe I have ever "conversed" with you before but - this is such an OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT that I had to pipe up. You must be very proud. Makes you feel like all the hard work is worthwhile, doesn't it? Congratulations!!
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rox[SIZE=3 said:Jinam- I hope you enjoyed the oil last night.
I certainly did, Rox. And I did it with a smile on my face, knowing that I have a spare bottle in the cupboard.
I gave a bottle to my daughter for Christmas last year, so I'm going to tell her she got the best olive oil in the world. It's been confirmed in competition.
Hakim
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Rox,
Congratulations on your Der Feinschmeckr awards. That is no small accomplishment. That you win such prestigious awards is stunning; that such accolades arrive within a short time of starting your groves, means that you have a tremendous gift for this business. Keep it up.
The only downside for customers will be tight supplies, and as you say, rising costs due to currency issues. But that has nothing to do really with your excellent products. The health benefits available from a high grade opi9lve oil you produce would make it a worthwhile purchase even at two or three times the price. In America, at any rate, high price almost always connotes the highest quality.
We are huge olive oil users here at the Chishti household -- basically we're an Italian/Mediterranean cuisine kitchen, with some Near East and Indian dishes tossed in from time to time just to keep things interesting.
Please let me know the best way to order some of your oils here in the USA. We're in San Diego, Calif, so if you have retail or wholesale sources near here, it would save us some freight.
Congratulations on your Der Feinschmeckr awards. That is no small accomplishment. That you win such prestigious awards is stunning; that such accolades arrive within a short time of starting your groves, means that you have a tremendous gift for this business. Keep it up.
The only downside for customers will be tight supplies, and as you say, rising costs due to currency issues. But that has nothing to do really with your excellent products. The health benefits available from a high grade opi9lve oil you produce would make it a worthwhile purchase even at two or three times the price. In America, at any rate, high price almost always connotes the highest quality.
We are huge olive oil users here at the Chishti household -- basically we're an Italian/Mediterranean cuisine kitchen, with some Near East and Indian dishes tossed in from time to time just to keep things interesting.
Please let me know the best way to order some of your oils here in the USA. We're in San Diego, Calif, so if you have retail or wholesale sources near here, it would save us some freight.
EddieWalker
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Rox,
You are living proof that good things happen to good people!! You are also living proof that what you put into something, comes back with hard work and patience. I remember all your posts about buying the orchard and how neglected it had been. You are truly an inspiration to me and what I hope to accomplish.
I'm trying to figure out the label on what's left of the Olive Oil that you sent us to see if it's the worlds best or a gold medal winner. It says Mas Des Bories at the top, which is the name of your Orchard. Then down below it says "Olive Oil Extra Virgin" then "A.O.C D' Aix en Provence" and then "First Press Cold Press" Is this the AOC that is the best in the world?
We really enjoy it and have been only using it for special occasions so that it lasts longer. Of course, it's always fun to tell our friends that the lady who told us about Boulder Falls, where we got married, is also the owner of the Olive Oil!!!!!
Congratulations!!!! You truly deserve it.
Eddie
You are living proof that good things happen to good people!! You are also living proof that what you put into something, comes back with hard work and patience. I remember all your posts about buying the orchard and how neglected it had been. You are truly an inspiration to me and what I hope to accomplish.
I'm trying to figure out the label on what's left of the Olive Oil that you sent us to see if it's the worlds best or a gold medal winner. It says Mas Des Bories at the top, which is the name of your Orchard. Then down below it says "Olive Oil Extra Virgin" then "A.O.C D' Aix en Provence" and then "First Press Cold Press" Is this the AOC that is the best in the world?
We really enjoy it and have been only using it for special occasions so that it lasts longer. Of course, it's always fun to tell our friends that the lady who told us about Boulder Falls, where we got married, is also the owner of the Olive Oil!!!!!
Congratulations!!!! You truly deserve it.
Eddie
Hakim,
Thank you very much for your kind words. Why us winning and not the next guy down the street. Well first off the guy down the street is also doing very well. Our area is perfect for growing olives and local farmers have really helped us by teaching us our trade.
But we do have somethig that 99% or the other local, I mean really local, farmers do not have and that is the Bouteillan olive tree. Olives are jsut like grapes a Chardonnay grape gives a different flavor than a merlot grape. Olives are the same way and the oils from different varietals of olives will taste different. A Granny smith apple tates different than a Golden delicious, although both are olives.
The orginal owner had planted about 1/3 of the trees at Bouteillan and most locals do not plant that tree in this quantity. The reason is, when you press say one kilo of Bouteillan the oil out of the olive you get a smaller amount of oil. lets's jsut say 1/2 a cup of oil. When you press one kilo of Aglandau or Salonenque olives you get like 2/3 of a cup. Certain varieties of olives yield more oil than other varieties. We have 2 varietes, the Bouteillan and the Grossane that yield like 15% to 17% oil, the Aglandau and Salonenque yield 21% 23% oil. For some reason the original owner planted a whole lot of Bouteillan and a pretty good amount of Grossane. Although these 2 varietals have a lower yield the flavor is wonderful, just wonderful. So when we go to make our blend we put in Bouteillan and Grossane and the other local farmers son't ahve that to put into their blend. First and foremost we have an edge because of the varietals of trees that are planted on the farm. Second come the weather and the "Terrior" as they say in French, the land. You can go 30 miles away and the composition fo the earth is different. Lastly it is the efforts of my husband and myself to just do every task the "right way"
We really put our trees first, honestlyall the time during harvest and most of the time during prunning our house can get messy. i get backed up on laundry. Thankfully my husband does the dishes every morning or I bet we would run out of dishes
In 2006 & 2007 we did a massive prunning of half of the trees in each year. Now in 2008 we can see that it is still a whole lotta work but still much less than 2006 & 2007. If I can jsut get one more field, the centers of the trees cleaned out from the 2007 prunning that means that for 2009 the work should be much less than this year. I figure it will be about 4 more years, or 8 years since we took over, for us to work at an easier pace. We have a huge incentive to think and work long term, our son wants to take over the olive farm one day. So we are working it for ourselves but also for our son, so f it takes us 8 years it takes us 8 years and that is that, no biggie. We are not jsut working it thinking we will sell it in 10 years, when you know you are forming these trees for your son 15 to 20 years form now you just put int he effort. we dont' do anything in our farming that is extra ordinary we just do each task correctly. Hakim you can buy our olive oil at Gourmet Gift Baskets, Artisan Cheeses, Gourmet Food, Cheese Basket Gifts, Month Clubs, igourmet Buy Holiday Organic Food. Olive oils are listed alphabetically we are usually listed around page 3 of olive oils.
I would say in about 18 months you should be able to buy our olive oil in San Diego. The equivelent of the United Sates Air force Academy in Colorodo Springs, for France is in our City of Salon de Provence. the french Academy and the U.S. Academy do a cadet exchange for one semester. Tthere is a U.S. Air Force Captain, an F16 fighter pilot , who we have become good freinds with. He is stationed in the French Academy and manages the Aerican Cadets in the exchange program . He is msutering out in May and plans on opening a wine and fine food store in San Diego. Once he gets his business up and running i am positive that he will be selling our olive oil. In the meantime you can get it at iGourmet.com. It is sold in Milwaukee in a store and also in Salt Lake City in a store. We can't get to big or we would not have the supply so our current customers, unless somebody cancells is pretty much it. Oh we might take up one or two more, but not a lot more customers that is for sure. I really hope you try our olive oil ad enjoy it.
Thank you very much for your kind words. Why us winning and not the next guy down the street. Well first off the guy down the street is also doing very well. Our area is perfect for growing olives and local farmers have really helped us by teaching us our trade.
But we do have somethig that 99% or the other local, I mean really local, farmers do not have and that is the Bouteillan olive tree. Olives are jsut like grapes a Chardonnay grape gives a different flavor than a merlot grape. Olives are the same way and the oils from different varietals of olives will taste different. A Granny smith apple tates different than a Golden delicious, although both are olives.
The orginal owner had planted about 1/3 of the trees at Bouteillan and most locals do not plant that tree in this quantity. The reason is, when you press say one kilo of Bouteillan the oil out of the olive you get a smaller amount of oil. lets's jsut say 1/2 a cup of oil. When you press one kilo of Aglandau or Salonenque olives you get like 2/3 of a cup. Certain varieties of olives yield more oil than other varieties. We have 2 varietes, the Bouteillan and the Grossane that yield like 15% to 17% oil, the Aglandau and Salonenque yield 21% 23% oil. For some reason the original owner planted a whole lot of Bouteillan and a pretty good amount of Grossane. Although these 2 varietals have a lower yield the flavor is wonderful, just wonderful. So when we go to make our blend we put in Bouteillan and Grossane and the other local farmers son't ahve that to put into their blend. First and foremost we have an edge because of the varietals of trees that are planted on the farm. Second come the weather and the "Terrior" as they say in French, the land. You can go 30 miles away and the composition fo the earth is different. Lastly it is the efforts of my husband and myself to just do every task the "right way"
We really put our trees first, honestlyall the time during harvest and most of the time during prunning our house can get messy. i get backed up on laundry. Thankfully my husband does the dishes every morning or I bet we would run out of dishes
In 2006 & 2007 we did a massive prunning of half of the trees in each year. Now in 2008 we can see that it is still a whole lotta work but still much less than 2006 & 2007. If I can jsut get one more field, the centers of the trees cleaned out from the 2007 prunning that means that for 2009 the work should be much less than this year. I figure it will be about 4 more years, or 8 years since we took over, for us to work at an easier pace. We have a huge incentive to think and work long term, our son wants to take over the olive farm one day. So we are working it for ourselves but also for our son, so f it takes us 8 years it takes us 8 years and that is that, no biggie. We are not jsut working it thinking we will sell it in 10 years, when you know you are forming these trees for your son 15 to 20 years form now you just put int he effort. we dont' do anything in our farming that is extra ordinary we just do each task correctly. Hakim you can buy our olive oil at Gourmet Gift Baskets, Artisan Cheeses, Gourmet Food, Cheese Basket Gifts, Month Clubs, igourmet Buy Holiday Organic Food. Olive oils are listed alphabetically we are usually listed around page 3 of olive oils.
I would say in about 18 months you should be able to buy our olive oil in San Diego. The equivelent of the United Sates Air force Academy in Colorodo Springs, for France is in our City of Salon de Provence. the french Academy and the U.S. Academy do a cadet exchange for one semester. Tthere is a U.S. Air Force Captain, an F16 fighter pilot , who we have become good freinds with. He is stationed in the French Academy and manages the Aerican Cadets in the exchange program . He is msutering out in May and plans on opening a wine and fine food store in San Diego. Once he gets his business up and running i am positive that he will be selling our olive oil. In the meantime you can get it at iGourmet.com. It is sold in Milwaukee in a store and also in Salt Lake City in a store. We can't get to big or we would not have the supply so our current customers, unless somebody cancells is pretty much it. Oh we might take up one or two more, but not a lot more customers that is for sure. I really hope you try our olive oil ad enjoy it.
Eddie,
Everytime I see a picture of a waterfall i think of you and Steph. Let me answer your question. Olive oil is jsut like grapes/wine. Each year it is slightly different depending on the weather and for a blended oil we change our formula every year. I sent you the 2007 AO.C. which is the Blend. The 2007 A.O.C. took a Silver Medal at the 2007 Los Angeles County Fair and a Gold Medal with Der Feinschmecker in 2007. The only customer who has the 2008 A.O.C. is Houston Country Club, they paid for their own special shipment. But we will be shipping soon to USA. The 2007 Olive oil, if you keep it in a cabinet away from sunlight should be good for 2 years, so enjoy.
Everytime I see a picture of a waterfall i think of you and Steph. Let me answer your question. Olive oil is jsut like grapes/wine. Each year it is slightly different depending on the weather and for a blended oil we change our formula every year. I sent you the 2007 AO.C. which is the Blend. The 2007 A.O.C. took a Silver Medal at the 2007 Los Angeles County Fair and a Gold Medal with Der Feinschmecker in 2007. The only customer who has the 2008 A.O.C. is Houston Country Club, they paid for their own special shipment. But we will be shipping soon to USA. The 2007 Olive oil, if you keep it in a cabinet away from sunlight should be good for 2 years, so enjoy.
