Numbered micro-lots from catalogued millennial trees, laboratory-certified high-phenolic pressings, first-press futures — consigned by family mills, sold by timed auction, shipped from the estate to the winning bidder.
Producer prices at origin, July 2026: Jaén €3.62–3.80, Chania €3.83, Bari thin and largely unquoted this summer (IOC sector statistics, Poolred trackers). Most small estates sell into that chain because no route exists to the buyers above it.
Median across published high-phenolic pressings, July 2026 — the range runs €42 to €1,340 a litre. Published lab numbers trade like vintage wine; the EU health claim needs 5 mg of hydroxytyrosol per 20 g, and the good ones carry double.
Numbered flagship bottles from catalogued millennial trees: Oldfargus 2000 at €499 a litre, Arbor Sacris reselling in Dubai at €904 — runs of a few hundred bottles a year. There has never been a venue where these lots find their price by open bidding. Now there is.
Catalogue number from an official inventory — the Territori del Sénia registry alone holds 6,358 millennial trees under its guarantee mark, and Puglia keeps a regional register of monumental groves. The lot names its tree.
Free acidity, peroxide value, K-indices and a polyphenol assay, published in full. An accredited tasting panel's grade beside them. Numbers first; adjectives after.
Harvest date, extraction temperature, time from tree to press, bottling date. Fresh oil is a vintage product — the dossier treats it like one.
219 named ancient trees in our index — catalogue numbers, measured trunks, attributed ages with their sources named — plus the territories and the certified mills allowed to press from them.
44 varieties read on their chemistry — where they grow, how they taste, which of them the world's oldest trees actually are, and what the health market pays for.
Proxy bidding, confidential reserves, the two-minute soft close and the salvage window — the whole machine. Our Journal carries the long reads.
New releases follow the Crop: the New Oil Sale after December pressing, the Spring Sale after award season. Each lot shows its estimate, its reserve status and its full dossier.
We bid for you — one increment at a time, never more than needed, exactly as the great wine rooms do it. Your ceiling stays sealed.
A bid in the final two minutes extends the lot by two more. Sniping buys nothing here; the lot ends when the bidding does.
Hammer and carriage go to the mill; the mill ships direct in certified packaging, tracked. We hold nothing — not your money, not the oil.
The calendar follows the crop — months can pass in quiet, then a catalogue fills in a week. Leave your name and we write when something deserves your attention: a sale opening, a millennial-tree pressing reaching the block, a small allocation about to be spoken for. A few emails a season, and you can step off the list any time.
