Frequently asked.

Yes. The 500 ml bottle, 750 ml bottle, and 3 L tin all contain the same single-estate Koroneiki extra virgin olive oil from the same harvest. The difference between the sizes is volume and where the bottle lives in your kitchen.

Once a bottle or tin is opened, the oil is exposed to oxygen and begins a slow oxidation clock. Stored in a cool, dark place with the cap sealed, an opened bottle holds its character for six months. The 3 L tin opened decants best into a smaller bottle on the counter, with the tin kept sealed in a cool pantry.

Unopened, the oil holds its full profile for two years from the bottling date printed on the label.

Fresh Koroneiki early-harvest oil tastes of green fruit — green banana, cut grass, artichoke heart, a finish of black pepper that catches the back of the throat on the second or third swallow. The pepper is the signature of high polyphenols and specifically of the compound oleocanthal, which only olive oil contains. That peppery throat-catch is a feature, not a flaw.

Yes. We filter gently after the oil has rested several weeks in sealed tanks. Filtration removes suspended sediment without stripping flavor — the compounds that matter live in the oil itself, not in the sediment.

A Protected Designation of Origin — an EU legal scheme that guarantees an olive oil is grown, pressed, and bottled within a specific zone (in this case, thirty-two designated municipalities in Messinia and western Arcadia) from 100 % Koroneiki olives, milled within twelve hours of harvest. Our grove sits inside the zone; our mill is thirty-two kilometers north; our oil is pressed within the twelve-hour window every year. See the quality page for the full set of technical markers.

Orders placed by 2 p.m. Central Time ship same day from our warehouse in Dallas, Texas. Orders placed later ship the next business day. Standard shipping reaches most US addresses in 3–5 business days. Free US shipping over $60.

Not yet. Our current shipping is US-only. A waitlist for Canada is open at hello@maniatisfoods.com — write with your address and we'll let you know when international shipping opens.

Damaged or wrong items: replaced or refunded, no exceptions, no restocking fees. Email hello@maniatisfoods.com within seven days of delivery. Unopened, sealed bottles and tins: returnable within 30 days for a refund minus original shipping. Opened bottles are generally not returnable for food-safety reasons, but write to us if something is wrong — we would rather you try the oil and not love it than keep a bottle unused on a shelf.

Full policy: maniatisfoods.com/pages/returns.

Our family owns an olive grove on stone terraces above the Messinian Gulf, in Kalamata, southern Peloponnese, Greece. The olives are hand-picked in the last two weeks of November and driven thirty-two kilometers north to the Damouras Brothers mill in the village of Trikorfo — where they are cold-pressed within twelve hours of harvest, rested through December, bottled in February, and shipped to the United States in the spring.

The grove has been in the Maniatis family for over a hundred years. The mill is a family operation founded by Vasilios Damouras in 1961; his sons run it today. We have brought our fruit to their press for years on the strength of a single rule: olives are pressed within twelve hours of leaving the branch. That rule is the Kalamata PDO standard, and it is what separates a fresh early-harvest oil from everything else.

"Single-estate" means the olives in the bottle come from a single family-owned grove. (Ours is in Kalamata.) Many premium EVOO brands use the term to signal that the oil is not blended from multiple farms or countries. It does not require that the farm own the mill, and most family-scale growers in the EU use trusted third-party mills for pressing, as we do.

The Koroneiki harvest runs mid-November to early December in Kalamata each year. The oil is rested through December, bottled in February, and the first cases reach our Dallas warehouse and Texas shelves by spring. Sold-out windows between November and the next spring are part of the rhythm, not inventory failure.

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Central Market (Texas specialty-grocery banner inside H-E-B) · H-E-B (online at heb.com) · Brookshire's (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas) · Super 1 Foods (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas). Plus a handful of independent specialty stores across the region. Not sure if your local grocer carries us? Ask them.