Description
Organic olive paste Grasse
WHY PRODUCE OLIVE PASTE?
Terroir-06 is committed to making olive paste because olive trees are part of our Mediterranean landscape and olive paste is one of the 3 products of the “Olives de Nice” PDO.
We wanted to make a simple product that serves as a spread but also that combines well and gives a little of our Provençal identity to any dish, vegetables, meat or fish lacking flavor.
In the Pays de Grasse, in the Alpes-Maritimes, our olive trees are 4 to 8 meters high and are of the “weeping” type. These are the famous “cailletiers” olive trees.
OLIVE TREE CULTIVATION
The typical olive tree of the Pays de Grasse and the Alpes-Maritimes is the cailletier, also called the weeping olive tree because its productive branches are hanging (the pandoulliers). It produces a fruity oil full of character.
On the plots that we farm organically, we have many large trees, some more than a hundred years old, as well as an olive grove replanted about twenty years ago. The olive tree is a Mediterranean tree that does not hold grudges, so we water our trees very little. On the other hand, we fertilize them, we treat them against pests and diseases with natural means (trapping and pulverized clay), we hoe them and prune them after the harvest which takes place in winter.
MANUFACTURE OF OLIVE PASTE
The olive is harvested by hand in winter and then put in brine. After at least 6 months it can be drained. It is then that in the workshop it is sorted several times, it is desalted. It is then passed through the refiner which removes the pits and crushes the flesh of the olives. Then plain or flavored olive oil is added depending on the desired result. Finally the jars will be pasteurized for better conservation.
USE OF PLAIN OLIVE PASTE
Natural, it is used either as a spread, as an aperitif. Or in cooking, in a salad or a pan bagnat, on a pizza, on fish or white meat.
It is truly a versatile product.
Technical data and origin:
Olives (Olea europaea subsp. europaea var. europaea , autonymous) organic: Châteauneuf-Grasse, Pays Grassois
Organic olive paste Grasse
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