SEVEN-TIME GOLD MEDAL WINNER
L.A. International Olive Oil Competition
MULTIPLE GOLD MEDAL WINNER AT
YOLO COUNTY FAIR &
SAN DIEGO BAY WINE AND FOOD FESTIVAL
THE KATZ STORY
Our culinary lineage spans the last 30 years. It began when we opened a restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area,
at a time when cooking local, seasonal, farm-fresh foods was in its infancy. This was a vibrant and creative period
and we spent that first decade "behind the kitchen line" learning that the quality of the ingredients makes all the difference.
Later down the road as a grower and producer, we now create these ingredients with a simple mission: to produce
genuine and authentic foods with integrity, and with love and respect for the land that sustains us.
Today, our family is proud to offer award-winning, certified organic extra virgin olive oils from our groves in
California's Suisun Valley, barrel-aged vinegars from our historic stone Carriage House, and highly acclaimed
field-collected honey and preserves...all made to nurture the soul and satisfy the palate.
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KATZ CHEF'S PICK ORGANIC EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL
From Our Up Valley Grove
Offered in a one-gallon food service size
An extraordinary value for an authentic, CCOF certified organic, small production extra virgin olive oil in a generous 750ml bottle! KATZ Chef's Pick Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil is the olive oil of choice for many of the finest restaurant kitchens and their chefs...who often help us harvest this oil each year...thus the name!
Chef's Pick EVO named "One Of The Five Best Oils In The World" by Details Magazine...a humbling honor indeed!
ABOUT THE PRODUCT
The flagship of our KATZ offerings and a seven-time gold medal winner at the prestigious L.A. International Olive Oil Competition, KATZ Chef's Pick is blended in small lots from oils harvested from olives grown in our certified organic Up Valley Grove in the Suisun Valley (on the eastern border of Napa). This historic agriculturally rich valley with loamy and sandy soils is an ideal growing region for the Italian varietals of olives planted there. Our goal each year remains the same...produce an excellent and high-quality oil that reflects the generous flavors, balance and harmony that come from good growing and harvesting practices.
KATZ Organic Chef's Pick contains the following organic olive varieties:
Frantoio and Maurino... 50%, these classic Tuscan cultivars lend the rustic, bold charm with grassiness and artichoke flavors.
Taggiasca and Casaliva... 30%, these varieties are native to the Liguria and Lombardy regions of Italy, respectively. They are noted for their soft and persistent fruitiness with sweet overtones producing a lush mouth feel.
Leccino... 20%, the character of this traditional Tuscan varietal has an outstanding balanced fruitiness with spicy and grassy overtones, and a mild to soft pungency.
ABOUT THE TASTE
This year's KATZ Organic Chef's Pick Extra Virgin Olive Oil returns to its roots with some bold flavors and rustic charm. The nose catches grassiness, with hints of artichoke and fennel, followed by a very warm, rich taste that hints of sweet spices. This year's oil is a mouthful of balanced flavor with a pleasant but firm pungency - the pepper in the back of your throat announces its polyphenolic freshness.
The oil has a very low 0.14 free acidity reading and a peroxide value of 4.9, well below the international threshold and a sign of the oil's very high quality and structure. Bottled unfiltered, Chef's Pick enhances a wide array of foods, but its bold flavor will shine in seasonal pasta dishes, casseroles and stews with meats such as lamb, beef or game, and in dressings for leafy greens such as spinach and arugula. This is the perfect condiment oil for the professional and home cook.
Harvested from November 29th-December 10th, 2011 with 250 cases produced.
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