Organic Olive Oil "Les Centenaires"

Name: Organic Olive Oil "Les Centenaires"
Brand: Mira Luna
SKU: HO_CEN_50
Price: 25 EUR
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Intense ripe-green fruity - 50 cl

Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Nov. 2024

At Domaine de la Baume in Provence, there are olive trees that have stood the test of time. These remarkable olive trees deliver an oil with an intense, harmonious ripe-green fruitiness, with green and walnut aromas blended with gourmet flavors of almond, hazelnut and ripe apple. This this exceptional oil is extraordinarily rich in polyphenols; a genuine green gold made of resilience, our Provencal "elixir of youth".

Capacity: 50 cl
Polyphenol level: > 1000 mg/kg (more than 5 times normal)
Variety(ies): Bouteillan, Petit Ribier, Verdale de Tourtour, etc.
Exceptional vintage: 500 numbered bottles

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Sensory experience

Magic in this bottle, a marvel, an exceptional moment!

Claude Colliot, passionate and inventive chef

Fruity
7 out of 10
Pungency
4 out of 10
Bitterness
4 out of 10

Eye

A beautiful golden yellow with green reflections

Nose

A breath of freshly cut grass complexified by notes of dried fruit!

Palate

A smooth texture that envelopes the palate and expresses with fullness vegetable and walnut aromas with gourmet notes of dried fruit.

Food & oil pairing

The essential of a healthy and gourmet diet! It can simply be served as an aperitif with bread. It is the perfect oil to accompany your Mediterranean diet and your raw or cooked vegetables: baked, grilled or steamed vegetables, tians, ratatouille, aioli, vegetable pies, etc. It will sublimate your colorful and juicy tomato carpaccios and will perfectly complement your soups and vegetable broths!

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Sensory profile

Dominant aromas

Green grass
Ripe almond
Hazelnut
Golden apple
Walnut

Estate & Olive trees

At Domaine de la Baume in Provence, centuries-old olive trees flourish at an altitude of 600 meters in a natural, sun-drenched tufa amphitheater.

It is in the Haute Provence in France, in Tourtour, one of the most beautiful villages in France, that the Domaine de la Baume nestles in an idyllic natural setting with its myriad of woods, garrigues, valleys, terraces, springs, caves and waterfalls.

In this exceptional terroir, where thymes, rosemary and wild lavender perfume the air with the scent of garrigue, olive trees have been king for many centuries. Petit Ribier, Bouteillan, Verdale de Tourtour, among the thousand olive trees of the Domaine de la Baume, some of the thousand olive trees on the Domaine de la Baume are over 500 years old; they have withstood frosts and fires, and each time have started up again, today forming cheerful circles of six or seven trunks around a matte and old burnt stumps.

Certification: Organic Farming
Olive variety: Verdale de Tourtour, Petit Ribier, Bouteillan and very old local varieties
Number of olive trees: 80
Age of olive trees: More than 300 years old

Here, the crops are grown as before, in a respectful way, observing and listening to nature.

Generations of farmers have tended, pruned and nurtured these olive trees with patience and common sense, and in return they have received their precious green gold. We continue the work of our elders with respect and humility, practicing ancestral cultivation methods, by hand, organically, without treatment or irrigation. And so, we continue to venerate this sacred tree, emblem of Provence, symbol of peace, wisdom and perseverance.

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Olive and oak tree in Domaine de la Baume

"The hill farmer is a man who straddles insects, he knows twenty languages, he had to talk to a blackbird, (...) he explained a whole long road to a lost swarm, (...) he laughed and said to me:

it comes from the heart.”

Jean Giono

Century-old olive tree of Domaine de la Baume

Harvesting & Extraction

Every stage in the production of our olive oils is carried out with care and love of work well done, to bring you an ultra-fresh olive juice, rich in aroma and polyphenols.

Organic olive oil of Provence - Les Centenaires Mira Luna

We harvest the freshly ripe olives of our centuries-old olive trees, at the moment when the olive delivers aromas of green and dried fruit confit, while keeping a very high aromatic intensity and an exceptional richness in polyphenols.

Olives have been harvested when temperatures are cool, in the traditional way, using combs and nets laid on the ground. The olives have been then sorted by hand, washed and cold-pressed in a mill within hours of harvesting, and the resulting oil has been filtered immediately to avoid oxidation and offer you an extra-virgin premium olive oil that delivers maximum freshness and aromatic intensity, and remains stable over time.

Olives from century-old olive trees - Domaine de la Baume in Provence

Our Provencal "elixir of youth"

Huile d'olive vierge extra bio Les Centenaires Mira Luna

This cuvée comes exclusively from our oldest olive trees: forming rounds of 6 or 7 trunks of more than 8 meters in circumference, these olive trees from local varieties (some of which are unknown to us today) are over 500 years old and all these years they have never been treated with chemical fertilisers.

They have crossed the centuries, fires and large frosts, and now offer us the fruit of their resilience.

Harvest: Traditional comb harvest of rotating olives on November 16 and 19, 2024
Extraction method: Extraction by cold crushing immediately after harvesting, followed by filtration for maximum freshness, intensity and stability over time.
Our selection: This exceptional cuvee comes exclusively from the estate's oldest olive trees, scattered throughout the terraces of fragrant garrigue.

Quality characteristics

Index of oleic acid: 0.19 %
Peroxide index: 3.8 meq O2/kg

These very low index of acid and peroxide and well below the maximum levels for the qualification "extra virgin olive oil" are the witnesses of the great freshness of the olives and the quality of their crushing. These are the guarantees of a "premium" oil of very high nutritional quality.

Total polyphenol level (tyrosol, hydroxytryosol and derivatives): 1038 mg/kg of which :

oleocanthal : 63.8 mg/kg
oleuropein : 734 mg/kg

This oil is very rich in polyphenols (more than 2 times normal), whose many health benefits are demonstrated.

In particular, polyphenols help protect blood lipids from oxidative stress and thus reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (by consuming one tablespoon of this olive oil per day).

* Analyses carried out in a laboratory approved by the IOC on dec.19 2024

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