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 […]
It has been the most special oil we have ever produced – hand picked, hand selected from the best of our 100 year old trees and all that done exclusively by our family. There are apparently a few bottle still available at Milenji hotels in Opatija and some in Munich but we think they are […]
Last week saw two wonderful German families join us on a tour to the Sta. Margherita olive grove, and wow did they embrace the nature of the place. It was such a joy to see young people and adults too who were so at home with all the parts of our delicately balanced eco-system. It […]
Great article in the Irish Times by news features writer Rosita Boland Istria? It’s top of my list Enjoy the clear waters, relaxed atmosphere and wonderful food of this northern peninsula in Croatia Before the plane even landed in Pula, I felt I’d already had a glorious ad-hoc mini tour of Istria, the northern Croatian […]
We are always looking for those who share our passion for looking after guests in Istria, bring something that is very much about Istria and that have family at the heart of what they do. Glavani adrenaline park though quite different to the calm of olive oil tasting at the Brist Olive Oil Shop fulfills […]
Saturday was quite a fun day. 200 great mannered and lively guests visited the shop over a period of 4 hours for tasting and education about how the finest olive oil is produced and sampled. If anybody though a golden generation would be a quiet crew they were wrong. They came with great energy and […]
Family is an integral part of who we are and how we create our olive oil. Below, Lena and Silvano at the olive grove after sharing with the BBC the traditions dating back over 2000 years of cultivating olives and producing olive oil in the beautiful region of Istria.
Here is an excerpt from world recognised olive oil critic Judy Ridgway following her visit to Zagreb in March. Just click on the image from her blog below to go straight to the full text about her thoughts on Croatian extra virgin olive oils. “A few days later I was in Zagreb to run a […]
