Mustapha's Moroccan Extra Virgin Olive Oil is pressed using 100% Picholine Olives grown in the foothills of the Atlas Mountain range - it is generally acknowledged that Moroccan Picholine olives produce more flavorful olive oil than their French cousins. The flavor opens cleanly with the flavor of ripe and green olives. The notes of green fruit give way to smooth and buttery notes of ripe olive on the tongue. It envelops the palate and finishes with hints of creaminess and a slight pepper finish at the back of the throat. Mustapha's extra virgin olive oil is rival to any French produced Picholine olive oil at a much lower price! Moroccan cuisine is considered one of the most important cuisines in the world. Over the last two millennia the indigenous Berber peoples have endured invasion and conquest, each culture that came left its mark on the land, its people, their cuisine, from the first Phoenician traders to the last of the French colonizers. A wealth of culinary creativity and the amazing quality of the bounty of ingredients from the everyday to the exotic make Morocco a culinary mecca. Introduced and re-introduced over the centuries, olive cultivation is central to Moroccan cuisine and culture. Indeed, its oil can be seen to be the backbone that holds this amazing cuisine together, for cooking, flavoring and preserving. It is difficult to determine where and when the first olive plantings arrived in Morocco, and while French, Spanish and Italian varieties are planted today the predominant olive used for oil is the Picholine Marocaine. This is the Moroccan cousin of the French Picholine Languedoc, and in the milder climate of Morocco the Picholine grows into a superior table olive as well as producing a more consistently fruity and flavorful oil. The best olive oil is said to come from the foot of the Atlas Mountains, and that's where Mustapha Haddouch gets his olives.

$3 OFF THE REGULAR PRICE FOR A SET OF 3 BOTTLES

MUSTAPHA'S EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL IS MADE WITH MOROCCAN-GROWN PICHOLINE OLIVES

IT RIVALS ANY OF THE HIGH END EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OILS AT HALF THE COST

IT CAN BE USED AS A DIPPING OIL, A FINISHING OIL, IN SALADS OR FOR COOKING IN ANY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINES