Home to the award-winning Almeria Gold extra virgin olive oil.
Learn more about Nina, her story and why her range of authentic Spanish-grown organic extra virgin olive oil products has enchanted thousands across North Carolina and the USA.
Nina's Olivar comes direct from Spain, where Nina and her team cultivate the very best olives for the award-winning Almeria Gold. No expense or effort is spared!
We have a single source of olives. All the Olives are from my farm in the Almeria province in Spain. Harvesting is always the 3rd week of October, with early green harvest giving rise to a phenomenal flavor profile of the oil and very low acidity.
EU-certified organic
Certification happens every year. The certification inspector comes every year, and checks the growth pattern of the organic grove. Before a regimen of organic fertilization (we like to use manure and compost) but sometimes we do have to take this office’s blessings for the product that we use is certified by the CAAE as organic, and we can use it.
Sustainable farming
Working towards self-sustainable farming. Our irrigation is solar-powered. We do rain harvesting (when it does rain there !!) by collecting rainwater in huge swales we have all across the farm. This increases the soil water content in this desert province of Spain. We are planting nitrogen fixing trees and shrubs for soil condition amendment, which will help our soil to be naturally rich in Nitrogen.
We are a 100% woman-owned company
Nina’s Olivar is a woman-owned company. A woman farmer, by chance purely for the love of olives and olive oil , but now 100% committed to working towards the well-being of my farm. I have a team in Spain to look after my farm. Performing needed farm tasks on time helps us to be ahead on our farm tasks and keep the farm and the trees happy!
Medium-high polyphenol content
The varieties in my farm are Arbequina and Hojiblanca and a little very, very ancient trees of a native variety of Lechim. These varieties have a medium-high polyphenol content. Our polyphenol count comes in the neighborhood of 350.
Very, very low acidity
Naturally extra virgin – since harvesting is done early when the olives are still green, the acidity is low. Every year the chemical profile is tested in a reputed laboratory in Spain, and oil acidity is always below 0.2%.
