{"id":17089,"date":"2022-11-04T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opg-rakovac.hr\/?p=17089"},"modified":"2024-11-07T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:58:19","slug":"new-season-extra-virgin-olive-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opg-rakovac.hr\/en\/blog\/evoo-bilini\/new-season-extra-virgin-olive-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"New Season Extra Virgin Olive Oil Bilini (Harvest 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new season extra virgin olive oil <\/strong>Bilini is ready! The olive harvest 2022 is over.<\/p>\n

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new season extra virgin olive oil Bilini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\t\t\n\t\t\tORDER EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL BILINI!\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Read how this year’s harvest went for us \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n

Preparation of olive groves<\/h2>\n

Before the harvest begins and before we obtain new season extra virgin olive oil, it is necessary to prepare the olive groves. This can be quite a demanding job if we are dealing with hectares of land. First of all: you should not start mowing much before the planned start of the harvest, because – in years when it is above-average warm – the grass can grow significantly from the mowing day to harvest.<\/p>\n

My olive-grove-preparation-plan this year was as follows.<\/p>\n

Pre-harvest preparation plan<\/h3>\n

\u2705 Removing stones from our olive grove Zacrikva<\/a>. With each plowing, new bigger and smaller rocks float onto the surface. Just take a look at the pile taken out over a couple of years, just from this olive grove:<\/p>\n

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rocks from our olive grove Zacrikva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2705 Mowing the olive groves. First using a tractor to mow the main portion of land between olive trees. Then use a trimmer to cut the rest of the grass.<\/p>\n

\u2705 Cutting off the shoots that grow from the roots, so that we can wrap all the trees nicely with nets during the harvest.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, not everything can always go according to the plan:<\/p>\n

\u274c During the mowing of our young olive grove<\/a>, a series of unfortunate circumstances happened to me. First, my trimmer broke down. Then, while taking down the trimmer, I stepped on a thorn. Just as I was about to take off my sneaker to remove the thorn, I stepped in a grass-covered pits. My knee still hurts from that. We have a saying in Istria: “The devil always sh*ts on a big cup”. Considering I couldn’t cut the grass any longer that day, I started with removal of the shoots from olive trees. I got to one of our oldest bu\u017ea trees, and – during the work – I sneezed. Two seconds after that, something slammed into my face. I had the impression it was a smaller bird.<\/p>\n

And then the pain in the forehead started. Then I heard a buzzing around me. It was hornets. Better said: a whole hornet’s nest within cavity of that tree. They were probably disturbed by my sneezing in an otherwise completely calm environment.<\/p>\n

Olive harvest 2022<\/h2>\n

We survived all the difficulties and started harvesting on October 18. This year’s harvest will remain in my memory as one of the most pleasant. The work was hard, just like every year. Spreading nets, olive picking, making 100,000 steps a day. But…<\/p>\n

We had fantastic weather throughout the harvest. We had the feeling that it was late summer and not autumn. The temperature was around 25\u00baC every day. It was even too hot at times!<\/p>\n

This year we also had excellent luck with the fruit: it is extremely healthy = there was no olive fly. Just look at how beautiful those “marbles” are \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"olive\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"leccino\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"olives\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\n

    How much oil the olives yielded this year?<\/h2>\n

    The yield\u00b9 was excellent too! So, not only was the harvest abundant with healthy fruit, with wonderful weather to accompany us. The olives yielded about 15% olive oil this year, which is a slam dunk for us! (we are used to yield of approx. 10%)<\/p>\n

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    The istarska bjelica cultivar yielded especially high oil percentage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    The new season extra virgin olive oil Bilini<\/h2>\n

    Every day, immediately upon harvesting, we drove our olives to the best Istrian oil mills (Grubi\u0107<\/a>, Nonno Bruno) for processing. Some days we did three tours to the olive mills. This year, the oil mills were quite crowded, so it was necessary to “maneuver” in order to catch a free container there to unload our olives.<\/p>\n

    We succeeded in that too. And our faithful Mazda Premacy pulled another 8.5 tons of olives from the village of Rakovci to the oil mills.<\/p>\n

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    And after 9 hard days and work from morning to night, we stored our new season extra virgin olive oil Bilini in barrels. Its beautiful green color\u00b2, fruity aroma and wonderful harmonic taste with bitterness and spiciness give us a hint of the possibility of recognition and awards for EVOO Bilini this year too \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n

    I couldn’t wait any longer… As soon as I brought the first round of oil home, I poured myself some to smell and taste:<\/p>\n