Portion 36 Olive Orchard Devonvale Stellenbosch
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Birgitta and Arend Hofmeyr do most of the work on the farm themselves. During harvest they are assisted by a local picking team - all olives are picked by hand.
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Portion 36 Olive Orchard is a small boutique olive farm located in Devonvale, 7 km outside Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, South Africa. Portion 36 Olive Orchard is owned and run by Arend and Birgitta Hofmeyr. There are nearly 2000 olive trees in our orchard. We planted the trees ourselves in 2007. We farm organically and feed the trees natural composts. Good soil and happy and healthy trees produce good quality olives. At Portion 36 we use both modern technology and old fashioned common sense – a combination that results in wonderful olives and a grateful environment. We love fresh and natural olive products, we pick our olives by hand and all products are made by us on the farm. We make mono varietal Extra Virgin olive oils from five different cultivars. Visit our Olive Oils page for more information. We have our own olive mill and besides making oil from our own olives we offer milling for other small producers. We also make natural Kalamata table olives in a salt brine. See our Table Olives page for more information.
Portion 36's Extra Virgin Olive Oils 2023 The 2023 Extra Virgin Olive Oil will be made from Coratina, Favolosa, Frantoio, Leccino and Delicata olives.
DELICATA, CORATINA, FAVOLOSA, FRANTOIO, LECCINO The name of the oils are the same as the olive cultivars, we use only one cultivar for each oil. There are several hundreds of different cultivars in the world. We have chosen to grow these cultivars because we like the style of oil they make, often robust with distinct bitterness and pepperiness but not always. Each of our oil has its own character and together they offer a different and educational tasting experience. Olive Oil Tasting
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