Our Oil
Our Olives
Our Olives
We have some of the highest percentage yeilds of any New Zealand grown olive oil.
Harvest time at Stonegate Olives is another opportunity to treat our olives with care to produce the best possible oil.
At Stonegate when the fruit is ready, the team can harvest very quickly – optimising the final product – an issue that can affect larger-scale olive productions.
In fact, the aim is to have the fruit from Stonegate Olive’s boutique grove delivered to the press the day after picking.
You can’t get much fresher than that.
Our Olives
Our Olives
Our Olives
Stonegate Olives is home to 370 trees of Greek and Italian origin.
Our trees have been planted with generous spacing to ensure maximum airflow and sunlight penetration, and they are regularly pruned to ensure the best quality olives are produced.
In most commercial olive groves, trees are closely planted and left to grow as large as possible to achieve the greatest volume of fruit growth – compromising the quality of the resulting oil.
Our method allows for the development of far healthier trees and a far healthier orchard, ensuring our fruit has prolonged and uniform ripening.
Our Harvest
Our Harvest
Our Harvest
Every year we harvest our fruit at the peak of its ripeness. This can vary depending on the weather, but is usually around Easter time.
Our Way
Our Harvest
Our Harvest
Our way is simple. It is about achieving the top quality for our olives and olive oil, and keeping Stonegate Olives a boutique family business.