>>12332533I have a friend living in the UK and he's told me 5lt of extra virgin olive oil is like 50GBP there, which is absurd.
Here roughly 30% of our oil is branded, we have over 600,000 olive growers. The bulk is from independent producers. Even though we have the highest quality olive oil in the world. That's started to change since the EU was formed, more and more independent producers have started exporting oil, yogurt, mastic, wine, fruit, spirits.
The EU has very specific legislation and autocracy for:
PDO – Protected Designation of Origin (food and wine)
PGI – Protected Geographical Indication (food and wine)
GI – Geographical Indication (spirit drinks and aromatised wines).
Most regular farmers, growers, producers are older villagers that have been doing this for tens of generations. It's not easy to get them to brand their stuff and fill out mountains of paperwork in order to export it.
The fact that the UK left the EU will mean you will be getting A LOT more quality stuff from europe.
No more "biologically sourced" ERGANI extra virgin olive oil that goes for 60GBP/5lt even though it costs 18euro in greece.
No more oligopolies of KALAMATA/SPITIKO/TERRA CRETA brands for olive oil, and FAGE for yogurt and dairy.
If I can recommend some brands that I know export their oil to the UK, they'd be:
Sparta Groves - oilive oil from Spartan growers. Light, fragrant, great replacement for frying oils like sunflower oil or olive-pomace oil
Pamako - high phenolic extra virgin olive oil, medicinal.
Kolympari - Koroneiki olives, fruity and strong oil from Crete
