Collection: New Season Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil
We are delighted to offer six different Extra Virgin Olive Oils from the impressive 2025 harvest. Five are from Tuscany and the other, the NYWines 'House' Olive Oil, Planeta from Sicily. All are available by the bottle of in a case of 6.
We also have a mixed case containing one bottle from each estate, which gives you the chance to experience the distinct flavour differences that arise from different regions and different olive varieties.
The Italian peninsula is a monument to the olive tree. There are 1.2 million olive growers in Italy cultivating 584 varieties and close to 150 million trees. There is as much diversity among oils as there is among wines. Our focus is on Tuscany, a region that is 23,000 square kilometres in size. The region’s heterogeneity of topography leads to a tremendous range of styles, as the olive tree is as sensitive to site as Sangiovese.
The 2025 Tuscan olive oil vintage was varied and, in some cases, challenging. Flowering in May was followed by very hot weather in early June, and an unusually mild July, which in some cases allowed the olive fruit fly to propagate. Thankfully, the resulting damage was mitigated through careful management and monitoring by growers, setting the groves up to withstand a difficult September marked by cooler temperatures and rainstorms. Despite 2025 being a cooler vintage overall, the olives ripened more quickly, and harvesting began exceptionally early in October for most producers. After the abundant 2024 vintage, lower yields were anticipated for 2025, with harvest yields expected to be around half of last year’s. However, this is compensated by a better conversion of ‘resa’ (the quantity of oil extracted per olive), which had been exceptionally low in 2024. Quality is very good, with some excellent examples being pressed and bottled, characterised by spicy, intensely perfumed notes.