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Extra virgin olive oil · Lesbos, Greece

CRU GOLD

The Provenance of Purity

Editorial

A Story Written in Olive Trees

Scan the QR code on your bottle to open its individual passport. Chapters 01–06 are shared by every bottle; Chapter 07 is resolved from your bottle's own records.

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Chapter 01

The Island

Lesbos rises from the north-eastern Aegean, a large island of bays, volcanic hills and long olive-lined valleys.

Olive growing is part of the island's landscape and village life. This chapter will be illustrated with the co-founders' own on-location photographs and film, captioned with where and when each scene was recorded.

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Narration transcript (draft): Lesbos — an island in the north-eastern Aegean, where olive groves reach from the shoreline into the hills.

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Chapter 02

Ancient Olive Groves

Stone terraces hold the soil on the island's slopes.

Regional varieties such as Kolovi and Adramytiani are grown on the island. Tree ages and grove histories will only be stated here where documented by the producer.

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Narration transcript (draft): Stone terraces shape these hillsides. How and when a particular grove or terrace was established is stated only where the producer has documented it.

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Chapter 03

The People

The producer team and harvesters behind each lot — introduced here only with their consent.

Portraits and interviews will appear here with each person's consent. Names are published only with permission.

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Narration transcript (draft): Behind every bottle are the people who tend the groves; their stories will be told here with their permission.

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Chapter 04

The Harvest

Harvest methods, dates and scenes — shown as documented, never assumed.

The harvest dates and methods for your bottle's oil appear in Chapter 07, resolved from its own harvest lot records. Footage shown here is general and does not depict the harvest of a specific lot unless stated.

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Narration transcript (draft): Harvest methods differ between groves and seasons. The method recorded for your bottle's harvest lot appears in Chapter 07, labelled with its source.

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Chapter 05

From Olive to Oil

Milling, extraction and bottling.

Olives are crushed and the oil separated at the mill. Each producer oil lot records its inputs, extraction date and volume. CRU bottles from an allocation it reserves within a producer lot — not necessarily the whole lot.

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Narration transcript (draft): At the mill, the olives are crushed and the oil is separated. The time between picking and milling is shown in Chapter 07 only where the producer has recorded it.

Chapter 06

The Pursuit of Purity

Quality measurements, sensory testing and documentation.

Laboratory and sensory results are tied to the oil lot they were sampled from. Each record states its source and whether it has been independently verified.

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Narration transcript (draft): Every result shown is labelled with who measured it and how far it has been verified.

Demonstration bottles

Open a bottle passport

Sample identities. In use, each is reached only by scanning its own QR code.