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Food Critic Top PickVolcanic Soil, Lesvos

The island of Lesvos, in Greece, is known for its silvery green hills where olive trees have stood since prehistoric times. Its volcanic soil has helped make the olive oil produced on the island one of the best in the world.

The olive tree variety grown in the area is the kolovi also knows as valanolia. Its fruit if picked when not yet quite ripe gives an olive oil which is bright golden yellow in color with green hues, a strong fruity taste and an earthy bouquet, with tones of freshly cut grass, oregano, rosemary and bitter almond.