Olive Auction built this page from public records so buyers can find the estate. Its own people can claim it at no cost — complete the story, list lots, answer buyers.
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.
Giorgos Kolliopoulos had spent years in advertising, writing copy and building brands for other people's products, when he decided to build one around something Greece already had in abundance: olive oil. In 2006 he set up Speiron in Athens, calling it the country's first luxury food and beverage company, and a year later launched lambda, positioning it as the first luxury olive oil anywhere in the world. The name plays on the Greek word for oil, ladi. The olives come from Koroneiki and Maroneia trees in the Peloponnese that the producer describes as centenarian, handpicked and cold-pressed to keep acidity under 0.3 and fruitiness consistently above 5.0. Every bottle is hand-filled and hand-labeled, passed through five separate quality checks by eight people before it leaves the workshop. Wallpaper magazine noticed the packaging in 2007, and the bottle went on to take a Silver at the New York Festivals the following year and, a decade later, Luxury Olive Oil of the Year at the LUX UK Global Excellence Awards. Harrods signed Speiron as a direct vendor in 2011 and carried it in its gourmet hall from 2012. For collectors, Speiron built a bespoke line starting in 2010: wooden cases finished in white lacquer, fitted with 18-karat gold or silver plating by craftsmen who spend thirty days on each one, accompanied by certificates of exclusivity and quality.
From the public record: en.wikipedia.org · speironcompany.com · allaboutshipping.co.uk
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