MUST LISTEN – Alexis Muñoz on France Culture

“In my profession as a producer, I press olives, and of course, I’m also called to taste them. I do everything I love to do, I live in the poetry of the olive. I cannot imagine my work in production without planting trees; it’s not something we have to do, but I love this world so much that I allow myself to plant trees and help others who want to plant them too. Everything about this profession pleases me.”

The olive is a fruit, and as soon as you pick it from the tree, it begins to oxidize. Because it oxidizes, you need to move very quickly between harvesting and crushing. I make single-variety olive oils because I am convinced that I can bring out a fruit juice with a distinctive character – meaning the character of the olive, its variety, its taste, its main aroma. I don’t blend olives because I don’t want to standardize.