{"id":36256,"date":"2017-07-24T04:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T04:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=36256"},"modified":"2017-07-24T04:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T04:46:13","slug":"gunrock-wolfskill-olive-oils-100-aggie-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/smart-living\/gunrock-wolfskill-olive-oils-100-aggie-made.html","title":{"rendered":"Gunrock and Wolfskill olive oils are 100% Aggie made"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gunrock and Wolfskill olive oils are 100% Aggie made<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Gunrock and Wolfskill olive oils are 100% Aggie made:- New UC Davis Olive Oils (and vinegars) have hit the shelves<\/span><\/p>\n

Gunrock Olive Oil, a mainstay of the UC Davis Olive Center\u2019s 12-year-old olive oil sales program, is back \u2014 only now this extra virgin oil has the \u201cestate\u201d designation, meaning the oil is made entirely from UC Davis olives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gunrock Estate is one of two estate oils this year. The other is the first UC Davis Olive Oil in nine years to come from the university\u2019s Wolfskill Ranch, where olives have been grown since 1842.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Olive Center has previously made oil from the olives of Wolfskill\u2019s older trees, but the new Wolfskill Reserve Estate extra virgin olive oil is from the first harvest of a grove planted in 2012 on the Winters-area ranch, now the Wolfskill Experimental Orchards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Milestone year<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a milestone year for us, to have enough trees so that we\u2019re not having to supplement our harvest with donated olives,\u201d said Dan Flynn, executive director of the Olive Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

The olive oil program had relied on donated olives every year but one \u2014 the first year, 2005, when all of the olives came from trees along Russell Boulevard. Since then, the Olive Center has developed three new orchards: two off Hutchison Drive, west of Highway 113, and the one at Wolfskill farther west \u2014 comprising a total of about 1,000 early-bearing trees.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most recent harvest took place in mid-November, with help from student volunteers. The olive haul produced 580 gallons of oil, enough for the two 100 percent campus-grown oils and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEven our Roasted Garlic Olive Oil is mostly extra virgin oil from UC Davis olives, with flavored oil added in,\u201d Flynn said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mixing in some vinegar<\/span><\/p>\n

The vinegar in this year\u2019s product lineup is the first to come from the Olive Center since 2008\u2019s release of Dinny, a red wine vinegar made on campus and named after the late Albert Dinsmoor \u201cDinny\u201d Webb, who was a professor in the Department of Viticulture and Enology.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, the Olive Center imported three vinegars from Modena, Italy: Barrel-Aged Balsamic Vinegar, D\u2019Anjou Pear White Balsamic Vinegar and Mission Fig Balsamic Vinegar, all described as having \u201cthe perfect balance of sweet and tart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The oils and vinegars are available at the Campus Store (Memorial Union) and two other UC Davis Stores: Welcome Center and Downtown, and can also be purchased online. Proceeds help support the Olive Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read what graduates have to say about being part of the Olive Center lab team.<\/span><\/p>\n

More about the olive oils<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022Wolfskill Reserve Estate Olive Oil (extra virgin) \u2014 Herbaceous and grassy, a blend of picual, mission, arbequina and empeltre olives. 100 milliliters, $7.50; and 250 milliliters, $15.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022Gunrock Estate Olive Oil (extra virgin) \u2014 With stone fruit and grassy notes, a blend of more than 20 olive varieties. 100 ml, $6; and 250 ml, $12.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022Roasted Garlic Olive Oil \u2014 UC Davis extra virgin olive oil, flavored. 100 ml, $6; and 250 ml, $12.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also available<\/span><\/p>\n

Deluxe sampler (pictured at top of page) \u2014 Six 100-ml bottles, one each of the olive oils and vinegars. $35.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022Artisan Dipping Oil \u2014 Also from last fall\u2019s harvest of campus olives. Released in March, in decorative bottles, 350 ml, $20.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.dailydemocrat.com\/lifestyle\/20170721\/gunrock-and-wolfskill-olive-oils-are-100-aggie-made<\/span><\/p>\n

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