Chef's Pick, Katz - California

750 mL Bottle - Suisun Valley, California

Again in 2007! Now a three-time gold medal winner at the Yolo County Olive Oil Tasting. From over 500 entries from 18 countries, Chef's Pick was one of only 20 domestic gold medal winners! Congratulations, Albert and Kim Katz!

"Chef's Pick" extra-virgin olive oil is a star of the Katz label and a three-time gold medal winner at the prestigious L.A. County Fair Olive Oils of the World Competition, currently the most prestigious of its kind in the United States. It proudly bears the California Olive Oil Council's "certified extra-virgin seal," your assurance of authenticity and high-quality.

Designed for great-value everyday use, Chef's Pick is a carefully crafted extra-virgin olive oil blend made from olives harvested each year on Katz's organic and sustainably farmed groves in the Suisun Valley (on the eastern border of Napa).



About Chef's Pick:

The goal of the Katz prouducts remains simple: to produce authentic and artisan-made products of both great quality and great value for daily use.

This oil has a very low free acid level, well below the international accepted threshold. Made from handpicked olives, the unfiltered oil achieves a rustic charm with grassy, floral overtones, pleasant fruitiness, a lush mouth feel, and a nice pungency in the finish. It will enhance a wide array of foods and is the perfect condiment quality oil for the professional and home cook.

The Olives:

This historic and agriculturally rich valley in California, with loamy and sandy soils, is an ideal growing region for the Italian varietals of olives Katz has planted. Chef's Pick extra-virgin olive oil contains several olive varieties. Frantoio, Leccino and Maurino make up 50% of the blend. These classic Tuscan cultivars produce the rustic flavors of grassiness and fruitiness in the nose, coupled with the requisite pungency in the finish. Taggiasca and Casaliva comprise 40% of the blend, and these varieties are native to the Liguria and Lombardy regions of Italy, respectively; they're noted for their soft and persistent fruitiness with sweet overtones, producing a lush mouth feel, and are grown on Katz's Rock Hill Ranch in the Suisun Valley. Allegra, Bosana and Coratina make up the remaining 10%; these are cultivars from Umbria, Sardinia and Puglia, respectively, and all add varying nuances of flavor to the finished oil.