California Olive Ranch

California Olive Ranch is a producer of extra virgin olive oil, not a Bay Area shop. The company’s site sells 100% California extra virgin olive oil and other olive-oil foods ¹. The story page describes more than twenty-five years of California olive farming and dates the first milled batch of olive oil as twenty years before that page ².

Extra virgin, in U.S. grading, is a sensory and chemical grade for olive oil, not a flavor adjective ³. Taste for defects and fruitiness on Tasting. A California ranch mill and a Napa winery both transform fruit, but one produces fat and the other alcohol; vineyard geography remains Napa Valley and Wine.