Behind the label
INHERITING CONTACT, EVOLVING KNOWLEDGE
The inspiration and creator of 8:26 Histories is Charilaos Gounaras. Being involved in olive oil production has always been an opportunity to embrace nature in its most pristine yet accessible form for him. However, the foundations for a family long relationship with olive oil had been laid over 60 years earlier thanks to Charilaos‘ grandfather, on those very estates.
8:26 Histories was created to take extra virgin olive oil one step further, to create a product superior to excellent. Modern means and innovative methods are utilized in such a way that the nutrients, flavours and aromas are rendered fully representative enhancing both the experience and the benefits. Now, every experiential observation is confirmed and supported by study and record.
The Agoureleo
(early harvest olive oil from unripe olives)
A PURELY MOTIVATED IDEA
There is an oil, with excellent taste and rich nutritional benefits. An oil so fine and special that growers often keep it for their own families, marketing their next production. Being well-aware of the contribution of olive oil to the healthy Mediterranean lifestyle, at 8:26 Histories we offer in its most premium form, what most people keep to themselves.
The first, unripe crop of the olive tree gives its olive oil – the agoureleo – a rich, cropy, spicy smell and a characteristic bitter-sour taste full of intensity. The best olives are collected exclusively by hand, and are intended for all those processes that will ultimately give the desired, special result. Antioxidants, vitamins, trace elements, and many more ingredients of great biological value are now enclosed in a bottle full of Stories.