It’s been a challenging harvest, but a challenge we were able to meet and what we have grown, picked, milled, filtered, blended and bottled is (we think) our finest oil yet. A wet summer gave us heavy olives with a lower oil yield but that oil is balanced and complex in it’s taste, being as […]
We have a simple ethos: New season means new oil. We do this for a couple of reasons. Firstly we want you to have the best, secondly it means that we have already estimated what we expect to sell which takes the pressure off trying to sell more than people want to buy. This makes […]
At 150 meters above sea level and just 5 kilometers from the coast and the Brijuni Channel, it is easy to understand why the Sta. Margherita Grove is such a special place. The salt laden winds are so important to the depth of flavour we can get from our olives, and in that regard, southern […]
In November 2011, just after the olive oil fare, a tornado ripped through the Sta. Margherita olive grove damaging or destroying 92 trees. Our hearts were broken but still Silvano and Matej went to work healing the damaged trees and replacing those that were simply ripped up and spread around the local area up to […]
It took quite a bit of manpower to get it in place but tank No. 6 is in place at Brist oil cellar. She stands 2,8m tall ready to take the new harvest of varietal Buža for our Sta. Margherita. It’s been a great harvest with a bumper crop but with demand still larger year […]
It’s been a hectic first ten days of harvest as the sun shone and the whole of Istria went to harvest at the same time. The harvest for the premium oils has been excellent to date and now starts the harvest for our mixed variety oil – Oleum. Milling has been going overtime to get the […]
On a beautiful sunny and warm afternoon, the 5th of October, the harvest began. Just a small group of family went up to harvest Rosignoa – an olive variety used in the blending of Intenso. Four generations of the family were present and it was nice to get a quiet start before the big team […]
During the late part of the summer we were delighted to have on a tour with us Rebecca Hartje and her partner with whom we shared many beliefs about respect for nature when harvesting it’s natural wonders. Rebecca is a young honey producer from Germany and we really enjoyed learning from her about honey production […]
In September 2014, after the end of the Istrian – Irish Festival organised by Paul O’Grady, Irish Maiden – croatia’s first Irish dance troupe visited the Brist shop in Vodnjan. It was a very relaxed afternoon and a few bottles of Istrian gold were taken back to Zagreb and surroundings to keep the heart warm […]
Some 9000km our bottles traveled to make it to one happy and soon to be even healthier extended family in the US. During the early summer of 2014 Rebecca Hauder visited us with some family and enjoyed an afternoon with us at the shop in Vodnjan. Flying the oil back was not really an option […]
