Name: How Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Is Made In Greece | Regional Eats
Uploaded: 2022-05-25T16:50:12.000Z
Duration: 10 min 6 s
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This region produces  what is considered to be

It's made from this olive  right here, the Koroneiki.

Koroneiki olive oil  tastes like no other —

This is the land of ancient  myths and heroes, after all.

This olive oil is  considered a very bitter,

and that is what makes  Koroneiki very special.

Like, the aromas of  that and the spiciness,

Claudia: This region has a mild Mediterranean climate

which makes it the ideal home for olive groves.

Early-harvest olive oil is more nutritious.

It is rich in polyphenols and antioxidants,

which make the flavor  fresher and more intense.

As the olives ripen, they do not really get any bigger,

These ripe olives contain  more oil than the green ones

To preserve the nutrients  inside the Koroneiki olive,

the harvest happens  as fast as possible.

out of the tree with  these electric sticks.

Dimitra: See, now they just brush the olives.

The olive fall, and they do not hurt the tree.

Claudia: And it's only  the olives that are ready

We need them both to be harvested. All of them.

Need to do this job with goggles or something.

Another method is to prune all the inside branches

Dimitra: Bravo, like this. Claudia: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

With both methods, the  olives fall into a net,

and the more stubborn branches and leaves

Claudia: So, how many olives do you put in one sack?

Dimitra: And from that, you get 10 kilos of olive oil.

Squeeze it to find  the olive oil inside.

because it's mixed  with some pulp, yeah.

Dimitra: This is the fresh  grass that we're looking for

in the fresh olive oil. Exactly that sensation,

that you just have cracked  the olive and find the aroma.

Claudia: Oh, yeah.  There's so much juice

inside the olive itself. Can we taste it?

The Koroneiki olive has a sister, Kalamata.

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