Description
Mission Trail is a fresh-blend extra virgin olive oil built around a simple idea: olive oil is at its best young, so why buy from only one hemisphere? This blend is 50% California and 50% Chilean, year-round. Chile’s harvest season is the opposite of California’s, so hand-selected batches from the Chilean farm and mill mid-year are combined with the home-grown California crop — which means that as one hemisphere’s harvest ages, the other has just been picked, and the bottle on your shelf is always close to a current crush.
This California specialty oil traces back to the Mission olive, the cultivar carried north along the mission trail and still growing in the oldest olive groves in the United States. The result in the glass is delicate and easy to like: smooth, buttery, and fruity, with hints of apple and almond, a gentle green character and a soft, clean finish. Not heavy, not aggressively green.
That balance is exactly what makes it the bottle to keep next to the stove. Indulge in this blend for dressings, marinades and general cooking — roast vegetables, sauté and pan-fry, bake with it, dress a salad, drizzle or spray over popcorn for a healthy snack, or pour a shallow pool for dipping good bread.
