Lots open for a fixed number of days. You leave one confidential maximum; we bid for you, one increment at a time, never past your figure. The highest offer when the clock runs out wins and the mill ships to you direct. You pay the mill the hammer plus its carriage — both figures sit on the lot before you bid.
Nobody — not the mill, not other bidders — sees your ceiling. The auction only ever sees the current bid. If two maximums tie, the earlier one wins.
A bid in a lot's final two minutes extends it by two more, so a sale ends when the bidding truly ends — no sniping, no games.
A lot either has a confidential reserve or says "no reserve". You always see whether the reserve is met. Close under it and the salvage window opens — 24 hours in which the top bid can still become the sale.
Win, and you pay the mill — never us. The dossier, the mill's contact and the paper trail sit in your account the moment the lot closes.
Carriage is the mill's, and its rate to your country sits on the lot before you bid. Tracked dispatch in certified packaging, and damage in transit is never your risk.
Some lots sell at a fixed price instead — first come, first allocated, the same protections throughout.
Everything on this site is olive oil in bottles, sold by the farm that pressed it. If the catalogue is throwing words at you, this is the short version.
The mill's own farm and this season's pressing. Everyday oil from a named place, and the largest part of any sale.
Trees of roughly one to three centuries. Still working, still cropping, and usually picked by hand because of where they stand.
Trees entered on an official register that dates them past a thousand years. The lot carries the register number, so you can look the tree up yourself.
A tree listed on a regional register of protected trees. Same idea as millennial: the register is the authority, and we quote it.
A fixed price with no bidding. First member to take it, gets it, with every protection a bid lot carries.
Oil that has not been pressed yet. You are buying the coming pressing, and the lot states the window it arrives in.
Age makes a bottle rare. What makes it good is how quickly the fruit reached the press and how the oil was kept afterwards. Both sit in the lot dossier, so read those before you read the century.
Free acidity, the standard freshness measure. Lower is cleaner. The legal ceiling for extra virgin is 0.8, and a well-made oil often lands far below it. The figure comes from the laboratory named on the lot.
Natural antioxidants from the fruit. They are what makes a fresh oil catch at the back of your throat. Anything from about 250 mg/kg up counts as high, and the number is measured, never estimated.
Sixty bottles of three quarters of a litre — forty-five litres in total. Lots state the bottle count and the bottle size, so you always know what turns up on the pallet.
The mill. You settle with the producer direct and they ship to you; we never hold your money. The contact details land in your account the moment a lot closes.
The mill's rate to your country appears on the lot before you bid, and that is the figure you pay. Anything the listing could not have known about is explained to you first, and you can walk away from the lot.
Then that lot is closed to you: the page marks it and a bid is refused rather than taken and cancelled later. Plenty of lots ship worldwide. Every lot has a Ships line, and it is the first thing worth checking.
A demonstration lot, put up so you can see how a dossier reads. There is nothing to bid on and nothing to pay.
Pressing oil rather than buying it? The consignment terms, in your language, live on the producers page.
The catalogue goes to this list before it goes on the site. When the sale closes you get every hammer price from it — including the ones that disappointed.
Two emails. Then quiet until Sale No. 2.
