Kalamata PDO extra virgin olive oil, 500 ml tin, harvest-dated

Name: Kalamata PDO extra virgin olive oil, 500 ml tin, harvest-dated
Brand: PINAX
SKU: PX-OIL-KAL
Price: 18.00 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

Λάδι Καλαμάτας

Extra virgin olive oil registered as Kalamata PDO, from Messinia in the Peloponnese, in a harvest-dated 500 ml tin. The record explains why a bare ‘Kalamata’ label proves nothing.

Price when it opens €18.00

Being verified

Not for sale yet. The record below is public, but the supplier is not signed and documented. If we cannot prove it, we do not sell it.

Includes 13% Greek VAT.

Ships to Greece: €3.90, 1 to 3 working days. Shipping and duties

Origin record πίναξ

Where: Messinia, Peloponnese, GR-J
How: Milled and tinned in the PDO area, harvest-dated
Protected: Kalamata PDO (EU eAmbrosia). Check the register on ec.europa.eu (opens in a new tab)
Maker: [partner to be sourced]
Fake test: Kalamata naming trap: since a Greek ministerial decision of December 2016, Kalamata may be used as a synonym for the Kalamon olive variety wherever it is grown. A bare Kalamata label is not the PDO; look for the full PDO wording. Source: europarl.europa.eu (opens in a new tab) Field Note: The Kalamata naming trap
Cook with it: Revithada, Sifnos chickpeas from the clay pot

Full record

Material: Extra virgin olive oil
Coordinates: Not recorded
VAT class: 13% reduced rate (food)
Ships to: Ships to Greece. Open zones: Greece, European Union, US and Canada.Tin, courier only. Greece, EU, US and Canada, duties paid outside the EU; FDA Prior Notice for the US. UK after our UK VAT registration.
Compliance: Original PDO tin, no repacking. Courier only (liquid). FDA Prior Notice for US orders.
Sources: ec.europa.eu/../EUGI00000013017 (opens in a new tab)
europarl.europa.eu/../E-8-2017-000459_EN.html (opens in a new tab)
elenianna.com/greek-pdo-olive-oil-regions (opens in a new tab)
Status: Being verified The record is public. The sale opens once a documented supplier is signed.
SKU: PX-OIL-KAL

A plain silver olive oil tin on a farmhouse kitchen table, a bowl of glossy green olives in front and a pale green enamel colander beside it, an open window behind

Illustration of the object and its place, not a photograph of a named maker.

The address

Peloponnese Πελοπόννησος

The southern peninsula, from the fir forests of Arcadia to the olive groves of Messinia and the port of Nafplio.

About this object

What it is

A 500 ml tin of extra virgin olive oil under the Kalamata Protected Designation of Origin, dated with its harvest year.

Where and how it is made

Messinia, in the south-west Peloponnese (GR-J). We intend to buy from a Messinian bottler certified for the PDO, and to sell the tin exactly as it is filled.

How to use it

Over tomatoes, grilled vegetables or warm chickpeas, or as the finishing oil on revithada. Store the tin closed, away from heat.

What we have not verified yet

First, the naming trap. A bare ‘Kalamata’ on a bottle is not the PDO. Since a Greek ministerial decision of December 2016, raised in the European Parliament in 2017, ‘Kalamata’ may be used as a synonym for the Kalamon olive variety wherever it is grown. Only the full PDO wording and certification prove origin. Second, what is still open on our side: no bottler is signed. Maker: [partner to be sourced]. The harvest year of the first tins is unknown. Tins go by courier, and US orders need FDA Prior Notice.