Our story
Geranios is our family name, and this is our family's oil.
The place
Our trees grow in Alfeiousa, a village in Ilia in the western Peloponnese. The Alfeios river runs past on its way to the Ionian Sea, and a little way upstream it passes Ancient Olympia, where the Olympic Games began and where winners were crowned with a wreath of wild olive.
Olives have been grown in this valley for a very long time. Ours are one small part of that.
The oil
This is extra virgin olive oil: the top category, obtained directly from olives and solely by mechanical means. The olives are picked, pressed and the oil is stored. That is the whole recipe.
It is the same oil our family cooks with and puts on the table at home.
From Greece to London
For years the oil came to London the way it does for many Greek families: a tin at a time, for our own kitchen and then for friends who tasted it and asked for more.
We now bring it over ourselves and bottle it in sizes that suit a British kitchen, from a 100ml taster to a 17 litre tin for those who get through a lot of it.