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Grampians Olive Co farms at Laharum, at the foot of the northern Grampians in western Victoria, on sandy soils the producer attributes to an ancient seabed, with the national park on its boundary. The producer dates the planting to 1943, when an immigrant farmer, Jacob Friedman, put the grove in as Grampian Olive Plantations Co, and describes it as the first large-scale olive planting in the country. New owners renamed it Toscana in the early 1960s, for the Italian involvement in its establishment and the resemblance of the climate to Tuscany, and that name held more than fifty years; a Grampians Olive Estate label appeared around 2000, and in 2015 the estate returned to something close to its first name.
Two generations of the Mathews family run it now. There are 28,000 heritage trees at ten metres by ten, dry-farmed with no irrigation, across 27 varieties: Verdale, Bouquettier and Benito, along with WA Mission, Arbequina, Manzanillo and unnamed selections the family believes were bred on the grove by its founders. The whole grove is SXC certified organic under certificate 25305, sheep graze it seasonally, and the pomace goes back into the soil. Oil is cold pressed on the farm within hours of picking, unfiltered and unrefined, at roughly seven kilograms of olives to the litre, hand bottled in small batches, with a cloudy Olio Nuovo drawn straight off the press each season. The Australian Golden Olive Awards have given the estate their trophy for best oil from heritage trees repeatedly since 2013, most recently in 2025.
From the public record: grampiansoliveco.com.au · internationaloliveawardsaustralia.com.au
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