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Ημιορεινοί Ελαιώνες Κυπαρισσίας, Μεσσηνία

Στις κατάφυτες από ελαιόδεντρα πλαγιές των λόφων που περιβάλουν την πόλη της Κυπαρισσίας παράγεται το εξαιρετικά παρθένο ελαιόλαδο των ¨ Ελαιώνων Κολοκοτρώνη¨. Εδώ, στις δυτικές ακτές της Πελοποννήσου, τα ελαιόδεντρα για χιλιάδες χρόνια απλώνουν τις ρίζες τους ανάμεσα σε ερείπια θαμμένων αρχαίων οικισμών της περιοχής, ρουφώντας απ’ την ιστορία αυτού του τόπου κι αναπνέουν τον ζωογόνο αέρα του Ιονίου Πελάγους που στροβιλίζεται ανάμεσα στις κολώνες της Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας του Επικούρειου Απόλλωνα και μεταφέρει στους καρπούς της ελιάς μια μυστηριώδη και αέναη ενέργεια. Και είναι αυτή η ενέργεια που, συμπυκνωμένη στο ελαιόλαδο, φαίνεται να είναι ο λόγος που κάνει το Ελληνικό ελαιόλαδο μοναδικό στον κόσμο.

Olive Oil from a family with a long tradition in the field. Kolokotronis family whose history starts in 1470, is one of the historical families of the Greek history. The members of the family, for hundreds of years, apart from their main profession, dealt with the cultivation of olive trees to produce olive oil for personal-family use. In 2005 a large part of the family olive grove was acquired by doctor Ilias Kolokotronis. His professional involvement with health field in combination with his ecological sensitivity made him find ways so as to produce olive oil equivalent to that of his ancestors. Therefore, the intensive farming method of the olive trees was abandoned and a methodology similar to that of the old times was applied, when all foods, not just olive oil, were actually “virgin” not just baptized “virgin” by the international food marketing system that allows the use of pesticides, fertilizers which destroy the soil’s organic matter as well as drillings contaminated with heavy metals, mixing with other olive oils, crops with high-density planting, to increase production and many more that negatively affect the quality. The olive trees are not irrigated or sprayed with any kind of pesticides (irrespective of their suitability for the purposes of biological cultivation), with only natural fertilization being applied (chicken and cattle dung as well as green manure with fields being sown with vetch). The olives are selected while green and are delivered at the same day for the purposes of oil producing to one of the most up-to-date and officially certified oil mills of the region, strictly applying the Cold Press Process method. Thus, the green olive oil is stored in stainless-steel tanks for it to "rest" as well as for the sediment to precipitate. The final process involves the filtering and bottling within a bottling unit certified by HACCP. The result of the above-mentioned production management is a virgin olive oil of exceptional quality and intense fruity flavour and aroma, yet, at the same time, of a remarkable nutritional value. This is due to the fact that the green olive oil concentrates substances which act as deterrents from numerous diseases for the human body. Since then we stabilized the cultivation and production model and in early 2014 Dr. Ilias Kolokotronis along with his medical profession, with his two sons Stavros Kolokotronis and Nikolaos Kolokotronis founded the sole proprietorship “ELEONES KOLOKOTRONI”