Ellada 
Our story
In 2019, Gladys and Laurent (Glad and Lolo to friends) left everything behind to travel the world in search of products with a real story to tell. It was in Greece that the trip took a turn they hadn't planned for.
In the heart of the Peloponnese, while walking through hillsides planted with olive trees, some of them centuries old, they met a local producer, on his family estate in Messenia. He let them taste his oil and explained his method: hand-picked harvest, cold extraction, no chemical treatment. That meeting is where Ellada was born, from the Greek word for Greece itself.
Since then, we have imported and distributed oil from that same producer, respecting his pace and his method: a modest production, between 8,000 and 12,000 litres a year, far from industrial volumes. The detail of our production method explains where every box comes from.
8,000 to 12,000 litres
of extra virgin olive oil produced every year, at the scale of a family estate in the south-west Peloponnese.
Human-scale production
Every year, between November and January, Koroneiki olives are hand-picked on the limestone slopes of Messenia, then cold-pressed within hours. This deliberately modest pace (a few thousand litres a year, not millions) allows for a level of quality control that mass distribution cannot offer.
The result is an oil with a bold, herbaceous taste, with a hint of bitterness characteristic of olives picked early in their ripening.
Get in touch
A question about an order, a delivery or the product? Write to us via our contact form, or find us on social media.
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- Email: contact@lolivequivoyage.fr