Tuscan Blend 100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Robust Intensity-2025 Harvest

Crush Date 10/2025

Olive Varietal Coratina, Frantoio, Taggiasca

Region Winters, CA

Intensity Robust

Polyphenols 459

Free Fatty Acid .11%

Peroxide Value 6.73 meq/kg

UV Absorbance (K232) 1.742

UV Absorbance (K270) 0.165

UV Absorbance (Delta K) -0.002

This versatile oil is excellent for both raw applications like salads and dipping, as well as for cooking, especially with grilled meats and vegetables. Robust oils are perfect for hearty, robust flavored meals like soups and sauces.

Sunlight Harvest is a small family olive grove just outside Winters, California, where Matt and his family grow olives on a six‑acre creekside pasture planted in 2019. Instead of high‑density rows, the trees are spaced widely so they can stretch into the breeze, with plenty of room for deep roots, natural airflow, and a healthier, more scenic grove.

Matt farms with a blend of old‑world practices and modern soil science: no tilling, no insecticides, herbicides, or pesticides, and only naturally derived fertilizers delivered through efficient drip irrigation to protect water and build living, resilient soil. The grove is hand tended and hand harvested; olives are raked onto nets and rushed just minutes down the road to the award‑winning Bondolio mill for cold pressing within 2–3 hours, preserving bright flavor and high polyphenols in every bottle.

In 2020, the LNU fire tore through the young orchard, burning trees to stubs and destroying irrigation, but many trees pushed out new growth and the grove was replanted and rehabilitated with help from the local community—a living example of resilience. Today, Matt’s single‑grove blend of Coratina, Frantoio, and Taggiasca olives yields a robust extra virgin olive oil with notes of green almond, green tomato, herbs, and subtle smokiness, crafted in very small batches for exceptional quality.

Matt’s path back to the land started on his family’s Wyoming ranch and a worn‑down horse property near Winters that he helped restore as a teenager, then continued through years in the corporate world before he returned home after his father’s passing to build an agricultural family farm. As the grove took root in 2019, so did his young family; today, he and his wife Katherine are raising three children alongside the trees, tending Sunlight Harvest as both a livelihood and a legacy of health, hard work, and gratitude.

Here is the latest and greatest report on the health benefits of Extra Virgin Olive Oil put out in 2023. It is full of info including busting those myths about cooking with olive oil as well as comparing it to other oils, and the cardiovascular and diabetes benefits.

Thanks to its status as a spotlight food in the Mediterranean diet, and thanks to extensive research on its unique phytonutrient composition, olive oil has become a legendary culinary oil with very difficult to match health benefits.

Polyphenols have been shown to function as both antioxidants and as anti-inflammatory nutrients in the body. The very number and variety of polyphenols in olive oil helps explain the unique health benefits of this culinary oil. Because of the high polyphenol levels, as little as 1-2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil per day have been shown to be associated with significant health and anti-inflammatory benefits.

• Lowers the risk of Inflammatory and Auto-Immune Disease problems

• Lowers the risk of Cardiovascular/Heart problems (polyphenols)

• Assists with proper balance of LDL and HDL cholesterol

• Digestive Tract benefits

• Support of overall Bone Health

• Improved Cognitive Function

• Olive Oil is not a commonly allergenic food and is not known to contain oxalates or purines