Extra virgin olive oil from my olive groves in cyprus extra special offers Start Price GBP 20.00 Current Price GBP 20.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 29, 2008 End Time Tuesday, December 09, 2008 Location clerkenwell, London See more about 'Extra virgin olive oil from my olive groves in cyprus' Description   Murat Du Carta This is first cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, produced to organic standards from my family's olive groves surrounding the village of Lurugina / louroujina in central Cyprus you are welcome to pop into my shop in clerkenwell, London and sample this unique single estate extra virgin olive oil these trees were painstakingly planted in 1950 by my mother and late father, they are now looked after by close relatives, who hand pick the olives and press them within 24 to 36 hours  U.K. Deliveries  we can offer deliveries throughout the UK with DHL 48 hour for weights up to 11 kilos inc of p & p £10 heres an opportuinity to buy in bulk for friends and family all for £10.00  p and p please email me with your requirements and address and i will quote you for delivery worldwide option 1 for £20 plus postage we will send you 4 x 500ml glass presentation bottles   250 gms of our black dry cured Cyprus olives   bottle of pommegranate mollasses  option 2  for £20 plus postage we will send you a 2.5 liter container of our extra virgin olive oil   500gms of our Cyprus dry cured black olives   bottle of pommegranate mollasses option 3 for £20 plus postage we will send you 2 x 500ml presentation bottles of our turkish extra virgin olive oil  2 x 500ml presentation bottles of our cyprus extra virgin olive oil 250 gms of our cyprus dry cured black olives bottle of pommegranate mollasses option 4 for £20 plus postage we will send you a 500ml bottle of our Turkish mandarin infused extra virgin olive oil 500ml bottle of our Turkish lemon infused extra virgin olive oil 500ml bottle of our Cyprus extra virgin olive oil 250gms of our domat dry cured olives 250gms of our domat chakistes olives a bottle of pommegranate mollasses option 5 for £20 plus postage we will send you a 500ml bottle of our mandarin infused extra virgin olive oil 500ml bottle of our lemon infused extra virgin olive oil 500ml bottle of our garlic infused olive oil 500ml bottle of our cyprus extra virgin olive oil a bottle of pommegranate mollasses the olive option for £20 plus postage we will send you 500gms of salama black olives 500gms of green domat olives 500gms of memecik olives 500gms of chakistes 500gms of cyprus dry cured olives a pack of dry olive leaves   please note that all olives and olive oil is produced and prepared on my olive groves in both Cyprus and Turkey if you wish to buy more than one item or large amounts please let me know and i will adjust the postage fee you can see where and how my goods are produced and prepared by visiting my website www.planetmem.com email mem@planetmem.com please click on ;the links below to see what the New York magazine, the times online and dos hermanos has to say about my olive oil http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/article5200663.ece http://majbros.blogspot.com/2007/06/embassy-electrical-supplies.html  http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/fooddrink/simon-says/food-heros.html http://nymag.com/travel/spring/2006/London/index4.html 76 Compton street, London EC1V 0BN tel 020 7251 4721,   fax 020 7608 2073  or   email axipa@aol.com http://www.planetmem.com/ or click on the link below to see the regular monthly food fares we attend at whitecross street market http://www.whitecrossstreetmarket.co.uk/   murat du carta is the label for all my cypriot products chateau carman is the label for my produce from my Turkish farm   © www.planetmem.com | created at www.mrsite.com http://nymag.com/travel/spring/2006/london/index4.html http://majbros.blogspot.com/2007/06/embassy-electrical-supplies.html   watch this space  i am expecting my delivery of lemon and mandarin infused extra virgin olive oil as well as chilli infused olive oil all freshly pressed from my farm in koycegiz Turkey i will also be packaging 5 different varieties of my olives, as well as sweet paprika produced and prepared on my farm                                Please rest assured that my sole aim is to provide you with pure single estate extra virgin olive oil, together with olives only from my family’s olive groves surrounding the village of Lurugina / louroujina in central Cyprus and now also from our olive grove in Turkey   We thank you for your custom and interest, it is greatly appreciated, I hope you in turn will appreciate the amount of work that goes into producing this superb olive oil   Kind regards   mem please read my article below         Murat Du Carta / Chateau Carman Producers of extra virgin olive oil, table olives and citrus fruit from our groves in Cyprus and Turkey Tel 020 7251 4721 Email axipa@aol.com Website www.planetmem.com   The great olive oil fraud   For many years now we have been led to believe that most commercially produced olive oils are the best and most pure available, unfortunately we were in some cases deceived In previous years Olive oil from the supermarkets was all that was available to most of us, unless you was one of the lucky ones as I was to have 2 x 25 liter containers shipped to us every year from our own groves in Cyprus, we would share our gift with members of our family as they would share theirs   The rest of our produce would be sold off to the co operatives, who would ship it off to the commercial producers mainly in Italy for blending and repackaging   Many olive oils sold in British supermarkets are blended from a variety of different oils and the acidity levels chemically adjusted in order that they can be labeled extra virgin olive oil   Some of these commercial producers have been found to have blended their oils with cheap hazelnut oil as well as or with sunflower oil It is also a fact that they have been importing olive oil from Spain, Greece, Tunisia and Turkey, blending it and marketing it as superior Italian olive oil They have also been importing olives from the other olive producing countries and producing olive oil and marketing it as superior Italian olive oil (please note that the best olive oil is made with olives that have been picked within 24 to 36 hours, I doubt very much whether they can pick and ship olives from countries such as Tunisia and press olive oil within 36 hours).   I urge you to read the articles regarding this great fraud by clicking on the links below   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1580807/Italian-police-crack-down-on-olive-oil-fraud.html   http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mueller   I have written this article so that people can see that they have not in all cases been buying the genuine item Most genuine producers are finding it difficult enough marketing their genuine products at realistic prices Bearing in mind the higher costs of looking after the trees, as well as the cost of packaging and transportation in my case my costs of transporting my oil from Cyprus is in excess of £1 per liter, add to that the cost of looking after the trees, harvesting the olives , taking to the press, packaging and marketing etc.   How on earth are supermarkets in the UK able to sell for example a one liter stone capped glass bottle of olive oil labeled as extra virgin olive oil produced in Tuscany, Italy, which I have sometimes seen on special offer at £3.99 In my case it is not cost affective to get organic certification, although everything I produce is to organic standards, might it be an idea to create an independent organization of small olive oil producers, or is there one already in existence?                                                                                                     please rest assured that my olive oil is from my olive groves in Cyprus and Turkey where myself or members of my immediate family not only look after the trees but also pick the olives when they are green or turning purple and take to the press within 24 to 36 hours at the most   For those of you with any doubts, you are more than welcome to book a stay on my olive groves in Turkey and see at first hand, depending on the time of year the looking after of the olive trees or come Oct / Nov the picking and the pressing.   I then have the oil and my table olives transported to the UK where I sell it through my shop in clerkenwell as well as at whitecross street market and through the internet You are more than welcome to put my oil through any test you like; it is pure extra virgin single estate oil and only available from me directly Regards mem     please note we have acidity level certification for our olive oil which is from 0.25 up to 0.5%         Place a Bid!