Olivery News

Telegraph Hill product safety: We are lucky at Telegraph Hill to be on a separate supply to the Havelock North town supply. This means we have not been using the infected water in our production. We can confirm that our products are safe to eat. Ongoing preventative measures: We have taken some prudent steps to ensure product safety. We are a separate water system to the affected Havelock North supply. This separate system is a bore water, from our own well.  We are regularly testing this water, and will continue to regularly test until we know more information.  Tests so...

Every step of the olive production process is completed by hand and onsite at Telegraph Hill Olivery. The processing of table olives requires practice and patience!  This week we are grading olives which requires all hands on deck a couple of times a month. The olives are graded for the first time at harvest and then again once we are satisfied they have reached optimal flavour through processing. They are hand graded for size and quality before they reach our production kitchen, ensuring only the largest olives of our harvest reach our table olive products. Olives are taken straight from the barrel and tipped into a large hopper...

This years Olive Harvest was a great success. A large crop and excellent weather meant we could harvest a total of 50 tonne, 15,000,000 olives in total. This year Manzanillo, Kalamata and Uovo di Piccione varieties were harvested.  What happens now..... Once the olives are harvested (watch here) they then go through the grader to be sized. Smaller Olives are pressed to make oil and larger olives are kept for our table olives. The large olives are then washed, and placed in 2000L vats or 200L barrels in brine (salt and water). Over the first 3 weeks, rapid fermentation begins using...

This week the winners of the Olive Japan International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition were announced. Telegraph Hill won two Gold medals and one Silver Medal for their three flavour infused Extra Virgin Olive Oils. This is a stunning result in what was a competitive international competition. Only two thirds of the 600 entries from around the world got awards.  We’ve recently started exporting to Japan, these awards will certainly help our sales and market growth. It’s a fantastic endorsement for our flavoured oil range. This continues another good year with awards, having won best olives in NZ for the fourth year...