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Spectacular weather on the Central Coast from the end of January to the beginning of March, than finally a cold wet March & April has caused tree confusion & chaos in our grove as well. Thank you to The Olive … Continue reading “State of the Grove – Blossom Anomaly” →

Cal State Fair medal results released! Very excited to announced: Silver for Tusci Blend, Robust Bronze for The Field, Medium We hope to again pour sometime during the State Fair dates of July 13-29, 2018 in Sacramento, CA!

Introducing our new storage, bottling, and laser production space. Now we finally have one proper room for everything PFOO!

Finally – rest of the lineup! Tusci (Aluminum laser veneer labeling) Points North (Wood veneer), The Field (Stardard label) SBP (Laser etched bottle) Now up and available in our store.  

One of our new bottles!  More releases & images to come.  Find out a little about Shelby’s blend at brands-awards/shelbys-blend/.

With a hard freeze expected tonight, we are so glad to have completed our estate harvest this last weekend – A record ton or 40 gallons, and now begins the certification process for 3 planned blends! 

At Mill on Wheels small batch day at Nature’s Touch nursery in Templeton with our first 311 lbs. of olives (70% Maurino, 25% Taggiasca & 5% Leccino). Wow, 5 gallons of beautiful color, packed with flavor yet delicate. Exactly the … Continue reading “First Harvest – Shelby’s Blend” →

A certain amount of anxiety begins to build throughout October & November. Daily groove walks and monitoring from now on to decide for that optimal time to harvest.

Today we officially marked the Autumnal equinox at exactly 1:02 P.M. PST. From here on out, the days start to get shorter than the nights and temperatures began to drop as we march ever closer to our olive harvest.  So … Continue reading “An Ode Autumn’s Olio Nuovo & End of Season Specials Now Available!” →

From the Best of CA package that came in the mail a few weeks ago for our Points North Blend. They are as big as Pongo’s Nationals ribbons – and as cool as winning Group in a dog show! Seriously … Continue reading “It’s Like a Blue Ribbon Endeavor” →