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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.
The mill in Makri sits on ground the Kelidis family has worked since 1950, and in 1982 Argiris Kelidis and his wife Niki Kelidou turned it into a family operation of their own, building on what his parents had already taught him about olives. Makri lies on the Thracian coast near Alexandroupoli, close to the old Via Egnatia road, and just south of the village stands a cave that local tradition, and the family's own telling of it, ties to Homer's Cyclops, Polyphemus. That's where the name Kyklopas comes from. The grove around the cave is one the producer describes as among the oldest in Europe, planted with the native Makri variety, a fruit grown almost nowhere else, shaped by this soil and this stretch of coast. Today the family tends 12,000 trees, 2,000 of them farmed organically, and presses Early Harvest, Premium, and Organic oils from that same Makri fruit. The recognition arrived early: a Platinum in 2008, their first year entering the Greek Olive Oil Competition, then close to 200 Gold medals across international contests in the years since. In 2018 the oil placed 33rd in the EVOO World Ranking out of more than 9,500 samples worldwide, the highest position any Greek extra virgin olive oil had reached in that ranking, and first among Greek producers that year.
From the public record: kyklopas.com · nomeefoods.gr
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