Cold pressed olive oil

What it is

A blend, mostly Galega with Cobrançosa in it, from our own trees. The proportion changes year to year because the two varieties do not crop evenly. In 2024 it was about two thirds Galega. In 2025, an off year for the old Galega trees, it was closer to half.

Cold pressed and unfiltered, settled in tank for around six weeks, racked off the sediment and bottled. Nothing added. It is cloudy for the first month or two in the bottle and then clears on its own.

What it tastes like

Green and peppery, with a catch at the back of the throat that some people find surprising if their reference point is a mild supermarket oil. That catch is polyphenol and it is what an early picked oil tastes like. It softens over the first six months in the bottle.

We pick early on purpose. It costs us about a third of the potential yield, and the reasoning is set out on the olive page. A later pick would give us more oil and a rounder, easier flavour that would not last as well.

What it is good with

Raw, on bread, which is the only way to actually taste an oil.
Over grilled fish or a bowl of beans, poured on at the table rather than cooked in.
In a salad dressing at a lower proportion than you would use a mild oil, because it is strong.
Not for deep frying. It is a waste of it and the flavour compounds do not survive the heat.

How to keep it

Dark, cool cupboard, lid on. Light and heat are what kill olive oil, not time on its own. The bottle is dark glass for that reason. Do not keep it next to the stove however convenient that is.

Best in the first twelve months and still good at eighteen. After that it goes flat rather than dangerous. You lose the pepper first and the fruit second.

How to order

There is no checkout on this site. Send us an email saying what you would like and how many, and we will reply with a total including postage and how to pay. Orders go out on Tuesdays.

Email hello@nossoparaiso.com, or use the form on the contact page if that is easier.

Minimum order is six jars or bottles, mixed however you like. Postage within mainland Portugal is 6.50 euros for up to six, 9.00 euros for up to twelve. Mainland EU is 18.00 euros for up to six and 26.00 for up to twelve. We do not ship outside the EU. Full detail is on the questions page.

How much there is

This is the item most likely to be sold out when you ask, and the numbers explain why. The 2025 harvest gave us 84 litres, which is 168 bottles for the whole year, and that was an off year on top of a drought. 2024 gave us 168 litres. There is no way to make more of it in a given year.

At the end of August 2026 we have fewer than twenty bottles of the 2025 oil left. The 2026 harvest happens in November and the new oil will be bottled from December. If you want some of it, email in November and we will put you on the list rather than take an order for something we do not have yet.