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Extra virgin olive oil · Breede River, South Africa

Cold extractedin the Cape.Poured in Britain.

Hand harvested and pressed on a family estate in the Scherpenheuwel Valley, then sent to UK kitchens in 500ml tap decanters that keep the light out.

Shop the oils, from £13Meet the estate

Sold and delivered in the UK by Sidwell's, the estate's sole UK supplier.

Rio Largo Botanicals decanter, printed with wildflowers and grasses, on a garden table
Plate IThe Botanicals label, 500ml, with its pouring tap.

The southern advantage

Pressed this year, not last

Olives in Italy, Spain and Greece are picked between October and December. Rio Largo's harvest runs from March to July, the southern hemisphere season.

So the estate's new oil reaches the UK half a year out of step with Europe's, fresh in the very months when northern oil is at its oldest. It isn't marketing. It's geography.

Two harvests, six months apart.

Three labels and a litre

The same estate oil in four decanters. Three 500ml label designs, each with its own character, and a one litre for the kitchens that get through it.

Read the tasting notes and order

From the Breede River to your table

Rio Largo is a family-owned estate in the Scherpenheuwel Valley, near Worcester in South Africa's Western Cape. The groves run along the Breede River.

The olives are picked by hand when they are ripe, cold extracted on the estate and packed there too. Keeping every step on the farm is how the oil stays fresh, with a peppery finish and grassy notes you can taste.

Read the estate's story
Brenda and Nick of Rio Largo holding a trophy at the SA Olive awards
Plate IIBrenda and Nick at the SA Olive awards.
Green and purple olives ripening on the branch at Rio Largo

Why it tastes the way it does

  1. Grown on the estate

    Every olive comes from Rio Largo's own groves along the Breede River, so each decanter traces back to one farm.

  2. Picked by hand

    The fruit is hand harvested at peak ripeness, so only sound olives reach the mill.

  3. Cold extracted on site

    The mill is on the farm. The oil is extracted without heat, then packed on the estate.

  4. Recognised at home and abroad

    Rio Largo has won numerous South African and international awards for its extra virgin olive oil.

Olive oil being poured from a floral Rio Largo decanter into a pan
Plate IIIStraight from the tap into the pan.

A decanter on the counter, a tap at the base

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