Odysseia Olive Oil is hand-picked and pressed in Messinia, a region in the south west of the Peloponnesus. It is located on the outer west finger of the peninsula. The inland landscape is characterized by bulky hills and rough soil. In the vicinity of the shore, the Mediterranean climate dominates, resulting in a warm and humid atmosphere. Euripides sang some lovely words concerning Messinia as “a country filled with fruit and innumerable rivers and creeks, a land where the winter is not unpleasant and the summer is not excessively heated by the chariot of Helios.”

In Messinia you can find many old towns and villages like Pylos with the Turkish-Venetian castle Neokastro; Methoni with its Venetian fortress originating from the 14th century; Koroni, also dominated by a Venetian castle, and Kalamata, the capital city of Messinia, where the Greek revolution against the Turks began in 1821.

It is said that the best olive oil comes from Messinia and that has everything to do with the climate and the type of olive. The climate is mild and the sea wind causes the near absence of the fly called Dacus Oleae. The average size of an olive orchard is not larger than 3000 m2. The Kalamata olive is unequaled as a table olive in Messinia, in the same way the small Koroneiki olive is for the olive oil. This Koroneiki olive is tightly attached to its tree and consequently, a special picking technique is required.