Casa dei Mezzo gourmet olive oil

The Casa dei Mezzo gourmet brand of extra virgin olive oil is for people with a taste for life — for those who are searching for the oil that makes their cooking seem like magic.

True to tradition

Like fine wine, olive oil comes in endless flavours, aromas and colors. It may seem surprising that such a wide variety of taste and quality can come from what is basically the same fruit, but the secret lies in the cultivation.

An olive tree grows very slowly over many years, and as it grows it absorbs the flavour of its environment – the earth, the sun, the herbs, the wind and rain, even the souls of the people who cultivate it. All of these influences build and create the character of the individual fruit. Casa die Mezzo extra virgin olive oil owes its provenance and superior quality, delightful fruity taste and rich aroma to the district of Sitia in the prefecture of Lasithi, Crete. Setian olive growers respect traditional values, blending them in perfect harmony with today's modern methods of production.

Our trees receive 3,000 hours of sunshine annually to give Casa die Mezzo extra virgin olive oil its rich and aromatic taste.

The aroma is intensified by the limestone composition of our soil. The dry, hilly lands in Sitia ensure its special flavour, and the perfect timing of the harvest of the Koroneiki variety gives the oil its fruity finish. No pesticides are used in the cultivation of the olives as we use decoy methods to keep our trees healthy and free from disease.

When the fruit has reached the right stage of maturity the trees are beaten with staffs and the olives are collected. The harvest is then transported in vegetable fibre sacks which can hold up to 50 kilos to the processing plant in the prefecture of Sitia.

Casa die Mezzo extra virgin olive oil juice is extracted by cold-pressing (a natural process of extracting olive oil by applying mechanical pressure to olive paste) at a temperature of less than 35°C and is then bottled under strict quality control in accordance with Europian Union specifications.

See our article on Cretan olive oil to learn more about the fascinating history of olive oil production in Crete.

'Olio nuovo e vino vecchio' - 'New oil and old wine'
Italian proverb

Casa dei Mezzo
Touristiki Kritis A.E.
72055 Makrigialos – Sitia – Greece
Tel: +30 28430 29183
Fax: +30 28430 29184
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