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<pre>Hi Brian,

Provincially we are located in the Western Cape, and are in a small village
about 85km from Cape Town.

Climate is winter rainfall, cold and very wet in the winter although not
cold enough for frost, hot (35 - 48 C) in the summer.

As I said these olives were the first of the season and are from a grove
that belongs to our local cement company.

They are not irrigated at all and rely on nature for their water. This year
we had an exceptionally high amount of rain and a relatively cooler summer
(not above 45), the rains also carried on into the summer (caused a lot of
damage to the valleys table grape crop)

Mix was about 60% black and 40% green, harvested deliberately that way and
the oil is a dark emerald green, with a nutty vaguely honey like aroma

The boutique (us) do not grow olives, we buy in and press Leccino, Frantoio,
and Mission. We will not accept Manzanilla as we have found them very low
yielding and often difficult to part from their oil

Regards

Mike




-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Gaull [mailto:briangaull@...]
Sent: 22 March 2002 07:45
To: OliveOil@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [OliveOil] News From Adelaide


Hi M and J

Where are you in SA? Seems a good % of oil! Congrats. We pressed Leccinos
last year about 7/4 and got about 7%! Are these dryland? Please enlighten me
as to where in SA you are located!

Regards

B&H "The Stuffed Olive"
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Meredith
To: OliveOil@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:47 PM
Subject: RE: [OliveOil] News From Adelaide


Hi,

Our waiting is at last over.

Today Wednesday 20th March we pressed our first olives for the season.
They
are Leccino and we are pressing them on our Oliomio 50 and currently the
yield using Kg Olives in against Kg Oil out is 17%


Regards

Mike and Juliana

Riebeeck Olive Boutique
Riebeek Kasteel
South Africa



-----Original Message-----
From: mstarcza@... [mailto:mstarcza@...]
Sent: 21 March 2002 06:37
To: OliveOil@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [OliveOil] News From Adelaide


After 6 hours of cleaning the press, Urrbrae Agricultural High School is
waiting for its first consignment for the year. This may not be earth
shattering but methinks after Mr. Farquars message regarding coos moos
poos
voos and toos, he too is waiting, waiting, waiting.
Matt Starczak



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