Olive oil tasting with wine & meal, history & Kamenjak NP

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Olive oil tasting with wine & meal, history & Kamenjak NP

Name: Olive oil tasting with wine & meal, history & Kamenjak NP
Address: Croatia

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Explore our olive grove and mill. Taste award winning olive oil and wine. Enjoy local Dalmatian food. Discover the rich history of Dalmatia and visit Kamenjak NP. https://youtu.be/l7AVGvN-uCk

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Highlights

Olive oil, local food and wine tasting and health benefits of the Mediterranean.
Explore olive grove and mill and learn about production
History & culture - learn about Dalmatia's tumultuous past
Learn the art of oil tasting and how to identify genuine quality and polyphenols
Sensation views of Kornati Archipelago from Kamenjak National Park

Description

Our guests embark on a journey through the hinterland of Dalmatia stopping off at major historical and beauty spots on the way to our family owned olive grove. You will learn all about olive oil and how taste it as well as eat local food and taste award winning local wine. The tour is in three parts: 1. Historical stop offs at Operation Leap view point and Benkovac Kastle. 2. Tour of our olive mill, gold award winning olive oil and wine tasting and a delicious by cold buffet meal drizzled in oil and accompanied by wine. 3. Visit to Kamejak National Park to enjoy sensational views of the Kornati Archipelago. Our Olive Oil Mill – Olive Oil, Wine and Food: The core of our tour is Part 2, the experience of traditional and contemporary olive oil production methods at our family-owned mills. At the mills you will learn about local olive oil and wine tasting and participate in a comparative tasting session and understand how exceptional olive oils are created. Our award winning olive oil (gold and silver in the New York and Berlin International Olive Oil Council Awards over the last three years). We teach you professional techniques to discern the subtle notes and characteristics that distinguish a superb oil from the ordinary including the taste and health benefits of our exceptionally high polyphenols. You’ll become adept at identifying the hallmarks of excellence, from the initial aroma to the lingering finish. And you'll learn the health benefits of olive oil and and the Mediterranean diet and the science behind how its helps extend and improve quality of life as you age. The time at our mill includes tasting a sample fantastic local varieties of Croatian wines produced in one of the villages close to our mill. Gold ward winning wines demonstrating the progress being made by local Croatian wine makers. The mill visit concludes with a cold buffet meal. Enjoy locally produced seafood, meat, cheese and salad, drizzled. Insight Into History and Culture of the Region: As well as the mill tour, tasting and meal, part 1 of the tour introduces the regions history & culture. You will discover the rich heritage of Dalmatia as our host guides you through the region. Visit historical landmarks such as the tank at Operation Leap view point, the castle at Benkovac and gain a rapid but extensive overview of the history of the region’s tumultuous past, from ancient to modern times. Sensational Views of Kornati: And finally, part 3 of the tout is sight seeing over the sensational the Kornati Archipelago. Returning from the mill, we stop off at Kamenjak National Park to stroll round and experience the glorious views over Vransko Jezero and the archipelago. To see our mill processing which is in full flow in October and November delivering our highest polyphenol oils, visit: https://youtu.be/l7AVGvN-uCk

Includes

Oil tasting tuition - combination of award winning oils and lesser oils to recognise quality Local food drizzled with award-winning oil and paired with a glass of local red or white wine Health education presentation Olive groves & mill experience Historic sites including access to Benkovac Castle. Learn about the tumultuous history of the region. Trip through the hinterland and inland villages

Important Information

4-5 hours duration (starting at 12:00 with pick up in Vodice, Sibenik or Murter). Convenient pick-up and drop-off at pick up point is at 12:00 at the bus station Sibenik. You will be contacted by what’s app or messaged prior to your to confirm please respond thanks. Small groups with a maximum of 8 participants in our air-conditioned minibus, or up to 16 participants in our coach (air-conditioned). Hosts are natural storytellers with extensive knowledge of our region’s history, olive oil production and cuisine.