FAIRTRADE AND ORGANIC STATUS
Zaytoun’s olive oil and olives are premium quality, grown and harvested using traditional farming methods, free of pesticides. The olives are handpicked and the oil extracted within 24 hours, then carefully stored. Some of the olive oil and olives are now certified by EU bodies as organic.
Zaytoun is also delighted that some of the olive harvest is now designated Fairtrade – producing the world’s first-ever olive oil and olives! This is the result of many years of work by the farming cooperatives and the Palestinian organizations that have been supporting them.
We look forward to working with other producer cooperatives to further Fairtrade and organic certification for dates, almonds, couscous, za’atar and soap.
To further guarantee the quality & regular supply of olive oil Zaytoun imports from Palestine, we have worked in Palestine with the British NGO War on Want, Unicorn Grocery in Manchester and Hadeel in Edinburgh, to put in place the infrastructure and training programs necessary.
ZAYTOUN OLIVE OIL REVIEWS
The following is a review by Jean Marie Baldassan from Adolive, a French olive growers council:
“Very fine oil, harmonious in terms of both fragrance and taste, with pleasant length and sustained flavours that are likely to be maintained over time. The fragrance is of tomato, freshly cut grass and green olive. There are gentle flavours on first tasting, which evolve to give salad-like hints of green bean, broad bean, young walnut… with a peppery, even spicy finish”
A review of Zaytoun olive oil from Malcolm Gluck, the writer of the Superplonk column in The Guardian paper and the BBC2 Superplonk series:
“It is one of the least aggressive yet pungently attractive olive oils I have tasted. It is in the rich nourishing class of the best of the fruity Sicilian, Cretan, and northern Spanish oils and its beautiful green cloudiness bespeaks of care and judicious handling. It is wholly organic…”
