Date: 23.05.2013
Place: Aegean region, Turkey
certifications: ISO 9001 - 22000 - IMO ( Institute for Marketecology )
DOP (Denominazione di Origine Protetta)
Additional info: We are a young and dynamic group of olive/olive oil merchants in Turkey. We provide in large quantity, predominantly, ‘loose’ olives and commodities extracted from different types of olives such as olive oil, natural soaps and teas. We have been in the sector for some over 15 years by now and are competent to accommodate your needs/orders. Punctuality, quality and consistency are our competitive advantages. We do it happen, let’s live and let live together!
Annual Walking & Biking and Olive Picking in Sardis (Salihli), Thyatira (Akhisar), and Philadelphia (Alaşehir) in three of the Seven Churches of Revelation of Asia Minor of Turkey… The annual Olive Harvest Festival the first Friday in November is the event that gathers everyone from the growers to consumers, merchants to buyers and food engineers to gourmets… Let’s meet on November 4th 2013 in Thyatira, Akhisar for harvesting olive for our own salads. We start with the dawn and pick our best olives, grade them…remember a trophy for the best olive pickers… bring the olives to the mill and have our oils bottled and sealed for us… Lunch together with all other farmer-pickers and barbeque for dinner…
Once the leaves are handpicked from the tree, they are carefully washed, quickly air-dried and left to cure with the absence of sunlight. Once processed, these leaves can stay fresh for up to one year as long as they are properly sealed and stored away from sunlight. The taste of this tea is rewarding as well, young and old alike, anyone can enjoy its flavor! It is not grassy, bitter, vegetal, woody, or any other flavors generally associated with other teas. Olive leaf tea has a mild, sweet aroma and pleasant taste along with other "olive-like" notes that treat the palate quite nicely.
