Cadmea Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil – Limited Edition, 500ml

Greek extra virgin olive oil from the Bassiakos family, to give or to bring to the table

You put the bottle on the table, someone picks it up and asks where it comes from. This one has a clear answer: Greece, and a family. Cadmea is the olive oil of the Bassiakos family, who in 2021 brought their olive grove near Thebes back into production. It is half a litre of Greek extra virgin olive oil in a white bottle with a light wooden stopper, the Cadmea logo in gold and Limited Edition printed on the front.

The back of the bottle says the rest: superior category olive oil produced directly from olives and solely by mechanical means, from small, traditional olive groves, product of Greece. The logo on the front is the Boeotian shield, a symbol of Thebes.

Giving it and keeping it

Add a card if you like: with the gold logo on the white bottle, it is ready to give as it is. Once it is open, put the stopper back after each pour. The bottle asks for a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight: a shelf or a cupboard near the table, not the windowsill or the worktop next to the hob.

How to use it

Use it raw, so you can taste it: over a deep plate of sliced tomatoes and onion, with bread to wipe the plate clean; over warm chickpeas or a bowl of beans; over grilled vegetables just off the heat. Half a litre is a bottle for the table. For frying and roasting every day, a tin makes more sense.

Good for:

• A gift for someone who likes to know where their food comes from
• Tomato and onion salad, and Greek salad
• Bread dipped in oil at the start of the meal
• Chickpeas, beans and grilled vegetables, dressed at the table

If the bottle matters more to you than the story behind it, Hellenic Grocery BLUE comes in a matte blue bottle with a cork. If you are looking for a PDO oil to cook with every day, Xenia Kalamata PDO comes in 4 litres. All our olive oils are in the Greek olive oil collection.