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Our Story
My family made oil in Calabria in the first half of the 1900s.
My grandmother, she had plots of land many of which were olive groves.
I grew up with olive oil as a commodity without paying much attention to the product per se.
The only thing I knew was that I loved it.
During the first lockdown we were in spain on vacation with my family. We were stranded for months in Conil De la Frontera in Andalusia, and having time to think we decided to bring top quality Italian products to Australia with a focus on EVOO.
In May 2020, we created Bottega 1900.
When we started selecting oils, a world opened up to me.
I was totally unaware of the variety and vastness of olives in the world, and I didn’t know that olive trees are native to the Mediterranean basin and as a result, all the trees in the world are imported.
We made so many calls on Skype to make a pre-selection of producers and oils, subsequently we went to visit them and learn about their history and products in person.
Our products are in some restaurants that believe in the quality of raw materials, and through our e-commerce and local markets directly to consumers, which are our real passion, trying to create some oil culture in our small.
Visit and EVOO session held by Former Chianti Classico Extra Virgin Olive Oil Consortium Chief Technical Officer Fiammetta Nizzi Grifi in July 2020.
What is the process for choosing and transporting the products?
We choose products from the people who produce them, quality and passion must be the main element, certainly not price.
All our products are transported either via air-freight, in 7 business days they are here in Australia or refrigerated containers to preserve their quality.
The ship crosses two tropics and the equator with peaks of 50-70 degrees celsius inside the container. It is expensive, yes but this is the only way for us to do things: with head and heart!
Again, we are crazy to transport all our products like this, but it is a duty out of respect for the producers and their passion and for our customers.
Alice is a sommelier , has worked for Sydney’s top restaurants as head sommelier winning several awards including Best Wine List in Australia in 2019.
Her wine selection reflects who she is, genuine, top notch wines made with head and heart!!!
Many chefs, retailers and customers who are passionate about cooking are rewarding us, they are recognising our effort, our love behind every choice, behind every product and we thank them for their support.
there are dozens of e-commerce for wine but none dedicated to high-Polyphenol and High quality extra virgin olive oil.
There are really many e-commerce dedicated to wine, with products of all kinds and from all over the world, but no one has ever developed an e-commerce dedicated to high quality extra virgin olive oil in australia trying to guide and educate the Australian consumers to purchase and recognise high quality EVOO.
Italy alone has more than 600 olives from which you can have extra virgin olive oil, and no one talks about it.
Extra virgin olive oil is like wine, but it doesn’t have the same appeal, probably because it doesn’t have alcohol content..
Everyone knows that a Shiraz is a structured wine that goes well with a steak or a sauvignon blanc with a snapper….
But no one knows that a Coratina is perfect with a steak and a picual with a fish….
Having built up all this experience I decided to put it at the service of the consumer by selecting real extra virgin olives from super selected producers who produce high quality oils.