The ancient Greek variety! These olives impress with their size, color and their slightly lemony taste. Translated as “plum-olive” because of its enormous size damaskinoelia. Known also as “donkey olives” because of their extra-large size, they are astonishingly meaty!
ORIGIN OF AUTHENTIC TEMPERATURE
These olives come to us from ancient Greece and more precisely, from Argolida. Argolida is a fertile land of orange orchards, kitchen gardens and olive groves, encircled by mountains and washed by the sea,. The ancient Greek city "Argolis" on the island of Pelops, the Peloponnese, was a land of heroes Thus the plum olives could be addressed only to heroes. That's why they are also called as "the olives of the heroes"!
HISTORY "FROM GOLD" BEHIND THE PRODUCT
Argolis that took its name from the all-knowing Argos, who guarded Ios, and who was transformed by the envious Zeus into a cow to escape the month of the jealous Hera when the news reached her ears. Argolis, which kept the kingdom of Mycenae at its peak, almost intact from the passage of time until today. And finally, the Mycenaeans who owe their name to the complaining moan of the cow Ios ("Mycenae" from the verb mykaomai = I roar like a cow).
So it seems that the cultivation of plum olives began in the 2nd millennium BC. When Agamemnon lived his quiet and luxurious life. At the famous meals of the palace he offered to his fiends, unbridled wine and olives! And it was at one of these meals that he decided to defend the honor of his brother, Menelaus, and start the Trojan War by campaigning against the Trojans. And it is said that when the Trojan War ended, the always steadfast, persistent and strong Agamemnon (the name comes from the words "agan" and "memnon" which means very stable), then he realized disappointed that the lives of the Achaeans were lost "for an empty shirt, for a Helen, ”. He returned to his homeland, and not knowing what awaited him, asked for his favourite olives to accompany his meal.
The "Olive Orchard" of 2000 BC. , matures over the years confirming the belief that the taste of foods becomes better and better as time goes by.