Olive Oil from Nice
 

We had a great bottle of olive oil from Nice...I have searched online for the store, and while I find it listed, I cannot find a website for it. I speak little to no French...can anyone suggest how I can find another bottle, other than flying back to Nice? It is the Huileries de Serignan store, and it is the olive oil that they produce.

(I am also searching for a balsamic vinegar they carried...I found their website, but it says no more balsamic will be available until June of 07!)

Thank you!

Erika

I don't know that olive oil but it is exported to the USA.(google) My favorite from Nice is Alizzari.

I agree that Alziari is just delicious. Williams Sonoma sells it at exorbitant prices, and I've also found it on the web.

Their confitures were very good. When I was their I bought the oil in their colrful tin. I take off the top and put flowers in and plant herbs in another.

oops! there, I bought the colorful tin.

cigalchanta:

Can you post a link where you found it exported to the US? I have searched, but everything is coming up in French (imagine that) and I can't figure any of it out.

Erika

Just do a Google search for alziari olive oil and you will find quite a few importers.

Yes, cigal, those tins are lovely. Using them as vases is a great idea!

Question: Other than the Alziari shop in Nice, where in France (Paris, Uzes) would I be able to find it? Does anyone know?

It appears that you can shop online at their website: www.alziari.com.fr

I will be in the area in July, can I buy olive oil and take it home (US) with me on a flight? I am also hoping to get olive oil from Casa Olearia Taggiasca in Liguria to take home. I found some several years ago in a local store and it was delicious.

There's no reason you couldn't pack it in your checked luggage.

You can buy the Alziari oil in Bon Marche..

There are other oils from Provence that are available in the US..look for those from:

A.O.C. Vallee de Baux-de-Provence

I think something may have been lost in translation...I am actually looking for the "house" oil from Huileries de Serignan...someone else recommended the Alizzari.

Can someone help me find Huileries de Serignan? Thank you again!

ebid, this site is in French but says they export to the USA. There's a fax number. You can ask them:

http://tinyurl.com/yf4fz3

We carreid Alizari olive oil back from Nice;I was thrilled to see that Williams Sonoma carries it in its retail stores.

Thanks!

My French friends are olive oil fanatics and they think Nice has the best Olive Oil in France :-D Specifically, they recommend and give as presents Al'Olivier, http://www.alolivier.com/index_a.php

I used it as dressing and have also fried with it. Heavenly!!

Olivier is a chain that sells many oils from many different countries. I do not think that oils actually come from Nice but from the countryside in Provence around Les Baux and other areas.

Viajero, the oils come from all over, Italy, Spain, Corsica and other parts of Provence. We hav one of their shops here in Boston and they are owned by l'Occitane.

My hands-down favorite is the appellation-controllée olive oil from Nyons (where Patricia Wells lives). It's hard to find but is really delicious; great in salad dressings. Here's one source:

https://plus40.safe-order.net/frenchfeast/products.htm

Here's a good web site for other oils. Last October we brought back oil from the Moulin de la Brague, which we visited with local friends. Excellent oil. There I also bought Olivier oil with basil--just a small can, but I treasure each drop.

http://www.worldsfoods.com/shop_cate...FQxgYAodGzaUPA

While searching for Napa Valley dipping oil I came across this site, which has French oils as well:

https://plus40.safe-order.net/frenchfeast/products.htm

P.S. The site for the Huileries de Serignan store does now show that their olive oil is exported to the U.S., although the oil does go to French Polynesia, among other countries.

Great. We'll be in Nice in May.
Also, any recs for evoo from Sicily?
M

One excellent Sicilian oil is Regaleali produced on the wine estate of the same name, which I believe you can visit to tour and taste.

Another Sicilian oil that gets very good reviews is Ravida.

bookmarking.
Muchas gracias.
M (SMdA, Gto.)

Jean, Patricia Wells lives in Vaison La Romaine. Her home and wine are called Chanteduc and she usually buys the same olive oil as I do the Jean Corneille Coop in Maussane.

For anyone who lives in New York, Fairway market has excellent prices for very fresh A.O.C. olive oils from Provence including those from Nyons and Maussane les Alpilles. They also stock a few Sicilian oils as well as Tuscan, Umbrian, etc etc oils that they buy in bulk and have bottled with the store label.

Pardon, Mimi--Patricia Wells SHOPS at the Nyons market.

Oh dear...cold fingers. I meant that the Huileries de Serignan does NOT export oil to the U.S.

When I was in Williams Sonoma today I checked and the Alizari Olive Oil is $39.00 for 36 ounces. The blue and yellow tin is round rather than rectangle shaped like the one I bought in Nice.

Very pricey, but that's W/S.

We have the great fortune to have visited the olive mill, Coopérative oléicole de la Vallée des Baux, mentioned in "A Year in Provence". We hauled back armfuls of olive oil and soap. Just as our supply dwindled and we were rationing the remaining drops of our last bottle, my daughter spotted its golden label in our favorite neighborhood artisan cheese shop, 5 minutes from my house (Del Mar, CA)! Voila! Some things in life are just meant to be!

carcasonne, that's the one but hear one bottl costs what we get for three at the moulin.

My cheese shop sells the 0,50L bottles for $28 which is not bad at all considering I paid 9 euros for the 0,25L bottles. I prefer the smaller bottles just to keep the oil fresh. Quoting the book, "It was like eating sunshine." :-) The owner said there is only one distributor, located in Denver. My X'mas care package this year is a copy of the book and the olive oil.

I love my artisan cheese shop. Besides an amazing assortment of cheese, it has wine, olive oil, tapanade, vinegar, wine jelly, french butter, etc. It's a foodie's heaven and my little slice of Europe. www.aniata.com

EK, CIGA, ET.AL.--- I realized that AL'Olivier sells different olive oils from all over the Mediterranean. After all, I was the one who provided the website (HELLO!!?). That's why my message specifies the brand and the ONE PLACE you need to get it from specifically: NICE. The one I found travels the best is the 83 fld.oz. tin can labeled AL'Olivier Huile D'Olive Vierge Extra OLIVE DE NICE.

For the record, as good and convenient Al'Olivier makes it to buy good olive oil from the Mediterranean, nothing beats a great find at a farmer's market. I found a gem at a farmer's market in Aix-En-Provence: Chateau Virant Huile D'Olive. Exquisite.

You know I think that my predjudice against A L"Olivier stems from, besides the issue of its being a chain, the not-stellar comments about them in Patricia Wells' Food Lover's guide. Wells says that, although the quality of their oils is not extraordinary, the shop is a good source for nicely packaged gifts. Having read that book long ago, I never actually bought any of their oils, although I have used their soaps and purchased gifts there...

In Paris, my favorite oil source is Huilerie LeBlanc in the 6eme on Rue Jacob...not that anyone asked!!

That's so funny because my French teacher has a joke about finding Patricia Wells's picture on a French-English dictionary...next to the word cliché. She also mentioned her books has an undertone of cozy relationship reviewer/owner (definitely not a fan!).

On this topic I can only speak by personal experience. Sorry.

My own thought is that the freshness of the oil is a major factor...just searching for a name label may lead to disappointment if the oil by X on the shelf is a year old. This is an issue here in the US when someone searches for a big-name oil and forgets to look at the date which hopefully is marked on the label. I think this is a faactor that sometimes is overlooked.

bkmking

I've kept olive oil just fine for several years.

While in Nice, try Oliviera; 8 bis Rue du Collet in Vieux Nice. They have an olive oil called Tanche Dessert. At the cookery lesson I had with Rosa Jackson in Nice (les Petits Farcis cookery school), we used it to make a lemon tart. Lots of other delicious oils too, and a small place to have lunch. www.oliviera.com.