Ayvaco is grown, milled, and bottled in Ayvalik-Edremit, a quiet seaside bay on the Aegean coast of Turkey where our co-founder was born and raised. Olive oil production has defined the town and region for centuries, with hundreds of small family producers growing and milling their own olive oil. Our family grows our olives in our own fields in Ayvalik, and in partnership with other families practicing organic farming methods, has the olives milled in small batches every fall to control quality.
Much of the olive oil in the market is a blend of oils from different harvest years, different countries, and different producers. We believe single-sourced oil from the most recent harvest year is the freshest, and we hope you taste the difference when you try Ayvaco for the first time.