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Discover Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Our Olive Mill currently offers three distinct activities: a free guided olive oil tour, a tasting and olive oil pairing session, and a 4-hour Cretan olive oil gastronomy experience. You can also just visit us at Melissakis Olive Mill!
Visit the Olive Mill
Our Olive Mill is a modern cold extraction plant, located just outside the traditional village of Tsivaras, Apokoronas, Chania, Crete. All tours and activities are hosted here. It is easily accessible and open to tourists, groups, foodies and olive oil enthusiasts.
If you visit during working hours, you can take a look around and sample our local, cold-extracted Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Afterward, you can admire the Millennial Olive Tree in our yard and see some machinery from past decades. Finally, you can browse our shop and discover high-quality local products.
There is no charge or fee for visiting, apart from any purchases you might make.
Hop in the “Green Drops” Tour
The Green Drops Tour is a free olive oil tour, designed to serve as an introduction and insight into the olive oil world. This 30-45 minute tour consists of five parts:
- A tour of the Old Olive Mill, also known as “fabrika”, featuring millstones and a wooden press, as well as our Millennial Olive Tree.
- A tour of the modern centrifugal unit, with an explanation of modern olive oil production and extraction methods.
- An introduction to the Mediterranean diet and its health benefits, as wella as guidance on understanding EVOO labels and how to buy authentic, high-quality olive oil.
- Tasting of olive oil and various local products.
- Questions and answers.
There is no charge or fee for the Green Drops Tour, apart from any purchases you might make. Book your place here
Taste olive oil like a pro in the “Cup, glass and a snack” Tour
The “A Cup, a glass and a snack” Tour is an introduction to olive oil tasting and the mechanism of taste itself. In this tour, we learn:
- The way to taste olive oil professionally.
- To categorize olive oil based on its taste profile.
- To distinguish good from bad olive oil and how.
- How all decisions of a farmer reflect in a cup with olive oil.
- How the sense of taste works and how pairings with olive oil work.
The tour has a duration of 2 hours.
For more information and booking, click here.
Master the use of olive oil in “Fire, Pairs and Hungry Foodies” Tour
The ‘Fire, Pairs, and Hungry Foodies’ Tour is an experience that aims to answer the question: Why is olive oil consumption so high in Greece? While answering this, we learn:
- About Mediterranean gastronomy and its connection to olive oil.
- How to taste olive oil and categorize it based on its taste profile.
- How taste works and how to pair different olive oils with various foods.
- How to use olive oil in every dish.
The tour has a duration of 4 hours.
