This Olive Oil has a delicate underlying touch of sweetness and subtle notes of olive blossoms; it’s like tasting sunshine in a bottle. Superb as a heart-healthy butter replacement – try using it with a touch of sea salt for buttery-flavored popcorn – without the butter!
What makes it so special? Sciabica’s olives are carefully harvested at different points of ripeness for superb "dialed-in" flavors. The riper the fruit, the sweeter the oil. Fully ripe 'late harvest' olives result in delicate, sweet flavors without the bitterness or pungency of the ‘early’ harvest olives.
What varieties are used? Well, typically this product is 100% Mission Variety, but in short crop years (like this one) we will also use sweet Arbequina Olives. This year, our Buttery & Sweet is a combination of Mission and Arbequina. Rest assured, it's just as buttery, sweet, and delicious as always.
Why are the Sciabica's the only one with such sweet EVOO? Mission variety olives are the only variety native to California, and only Mission olives have fully adapted to the California climate (many trees are well over 100 years old) allowing the olives to remain on the tree for several months after most producers have completed their harvest – becoming ever riper and sweeter. Very few olive oil millers harvest Mission olives – it's a time-consuming and expensive process – however, the Sciabica Family has quite literally built the company around these native California beauties.
Always fresh and delicious and there's nothing else that goes on my popcorn., Buttery sweet all the way!
Best olive oils ever and now I am hooked to the sticky balsamic. Been ordering from them for 10 years.
Love all your olive oils and vinegars. And best customer service ever!!
Flavorful and SMOOTH!
Buttery and delicious flavor with a light mouthfeel olive oil.
i appreciate that Sciabica mixes Arbequina with its Mission in short crop years. I've purchased Sciabica's Mission for decades. Notwithstanding Sciabica's claim that the Arbequina/ Mission mix is as sweet and buttery as Mission alone, to my taste, it is not. Nonetheless, as a matter of loyalty and support, I continue to purchase the mixed oil. However, given the 2025 abundant mission crop, I hope that Sciabica will return to its original single Mission oil (not the olivo nuovo).
This is the best finishing olive oil hands down!
-This olive oil is delicious and the company ships incredibly fast. I order all of my oil from them and I've never been disappointed.
I have been buying for several years, won't stop. This is the best olive oil you can buy. Highly recommend.
Makes popcorn taste even better! I use the oil for all my cooking including popping the corn! 🍿
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