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The Village Press Olive Oil

How We Press Olives

• The trees are shaken at harvest time and ripe fruit collected in a blanket under the tree.

• The olives are washed to remove leaves.

• They are then put in a mill which crushes and grinds them into a paste.

• A chamber holds the paste while it is gently paddled to release the oil molecules.

• The olives are then pressed in either the old style or a modern centrifugal press system.

• After pressing, the oil is decanted or separated and stored in stainless steel tanks until bottling.

• The oil is bottled using an automated bottling and labelling line (in house).