Three-Time Gold Medal Winner
L.A. International Olive Oil Competition

Three-Time Gold Medal Winner
Yolo County Fair

Two-Time Gold Medal Winner
San Diego Bay Wine & 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.

California Extra Virgin Olive Oil
KATZ ROCK HILL RANCH ORGANIC EXTRA VIRGIN CALIFORNIA OLIVE OIL, SUISUN VALLEY

Offered in a half-gallon food service size

The story of Rock Hill Ranch is all about a sense of "place"...where daily we go about the work of sustainable agriculture. Whether that is tending to the organic olive groves, or spending time in the Carriage House crafting our vinegar, or taking care of the French Redbro chickens that pasture under the olive trees, it is our unbroken commitment to small-scale farming.

All of the fruit in this bottling of olive oil comes from our organically farmed ranch. The twenty acres sit on the southern tip of Suisun Valley, California, where breezes blow in from the west (Suisun means "west wind") creating a distinctive microclimate. The surrounding hills are full of compacted volcanic ash, called tuffo in Italian, creating a loamy soil…an ideal mix for growing olive trees. These are the same soil conditions that the Tuscans claim are responsible for making it the "best" region for growing olives...a claim we can now make for the Suisun Valley.

KATZ Rock Hill Ranch EVO contains these olive varieties:

Taggiasca and Casaliva... 80% of the blend, these varieties are native to the Ligurian and Lombardy regions of Italy respectively. Both are known for their soft and persistent fruitiness with sweet overtones producing a lush mouth feel.

Allegra... 10% of the blend, a rare variety from Italy that is a low-vigor tree (grows slowly) and produces beautiful “clusters” of fruit that yield lush, full-bodied oil with very round flavors. We are one of the few growers of this variety in the U.S.

Leccino... 10% of the blend, this Tuscan cultivar gives the oil a green hue with a background of sweet spice and a lush fruitiness.

ABOUT THE TASTE
Harvested Nov. 10 to Dec. 3 2009, KATZ Rock Hill Ranch has a very low .17 free fatty acid, and 7.75 peroxide value. Hand harvested and bottled unfiltered, this year’s oil shows off its aroma of its grassy and floral overtones with a rich, lush mouth feel ending with a pleasantly pungent finish that announces its freshness.

Harvest Date November 10th to December 3rd 2009





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