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After a claim, we confirm by emailEverything here comes from public sources — award lists, certification registers, the territory inventories. The rest of the story — the family, the grove, the real age of the trees, this year's lab sheet — only the mill can tell, and it is the part buyers bid on.
Cape Schanck Olive Estate sits on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, on the sandy coastal soils that take the wind off Bass Strait. The family bought the property in 2002, when it was an abandoned flower nursery, and planted the grove in May 2006 with 2,000 olive saplings: the Italian Coratina, Leccino and Frantoio, the French Picholine and the Spanish Picual. The first extra virgin olive oil followed in 2010, once an Alfa Laval continuous press had been installed in the mill room.
Everything is grown, pressed and bottled on the farm, and always as single varieties. Fruit is checked weekly from autumn, picked and pressed within hours, and put through a denocciolated pressing in which the stones are taken out before the flesh is milled. Organic practices are adopted where the family says they can be, native plantings were put in to draw wildlife, and a small herd of Angus cattle grazes the remaining pasture.
The awards record is unbroken from 2012 to 2025. The Australian International Olive Awards gave the Picual Best of Show in 2020, naming it Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil of the Southern Hemisphere, and gave the Picholine Best of Show in 2023. At the New York International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition the estate took five Golds in 2021, one for each variety, and three more in 2022 for the Leccino, Frantoio and Picholine. The 2026 first-harvest bottlings went out unfiltered and unsettled, straight from the press.
From the public record: capeschanckestate.com.au
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