 Re: Olive oil vintages
Young olive oil and old wine. It's an old Tuscan saying.
You really want to consume the good stuff within a year of pressing. Otherwise it loses its flavor, spice, tange, pepper, grass, citrus, tartness, or whatever made it the good stuff in the first place. Past one year, you might as well have just bought less expensive oil.
We work hard to only have the new oil in the FB Store, and for those of us buying EVO in the U.S., beware. The Italians are know for dumping old oil they could not sell in Italy in the U.S. They would never offend their regular customers (virtually all of whom are olive oil experts), but they will happily dump it on us. The same is true for coffee. Illy and Lavazza are excellent there, but old and stale here.
Helpful? :-)
James |