Can Olive Oil Be Compared With Wine?
Yes, quality and taste is influenced by geographical factors and you can also have good and bad olive years just like wine. The olive oils of some small producers are treated like fine vintages. Some of these oils are priced like fine wines as well.

How Old Are Olive Trees?
Olive trees have a life span of 300-400 years. Some grow to be 700 years and older.

How is a Site Selected?
Before a site is selected to start an olive grove, it is observed, often for many years. It must be free of strong winds, winter floods or other faults. To produce the finest olive oils, the grower carefully tends each tree, coaxing the most abundant fruits to spring forth.

Where is Khirokitia?
Around the hilly area of Larnaca at the foothills of the South Eastern Troodos Mountains lies the culturally rich picturesque village of Khirokitia. The village has been traced back to aceramic times, dating back to the sixth millennium BC (6020, 5850 and 5800 BC.)

Khirokitia is the oldest Neolithic settlement yet discovered on the island and is therefore, protected by UNESCO as a world heritage site.