Extraordinary Food of Distinctive Quality
This fifth generation family-owned company’s mission is to support and preserve tradition and promote sustainability on the island of Crete. Creativity abounds! Biolea uses extracted olive pomace as fuel to provide electrical power and they only use natural irrigation. One of the last remaining producers to utilize a stone mill to grind the olives, this ancient technique retains more of the oil’s healthful properties.
Celebrating Our Women-Owned Producers Meet the Women-Owned Producers of Rogers Collection As a majority women-managed and operated company, we at Rogers Collection are proud to import many premium products from hard-working, knowledgeable, committed women producers. Today we are featuring three of these women-owned producers: Chloe Dimitriadis of Biolea (olive oil); Alice Cerutti of Cascina Oschiena (rice and grains); and…
Making Liquid Gold in Crete Sustainably at Biolea “He loves being outside in the olive groves and particularly has a talent for picking snails!” Chloe Dimitriadis says of her 2-year-old son, Orpheas. Chloe marks the sixth generation of the Dimitriadis family to run Biolea (Bee-oh-lay-a), a family-owned company that estate- produces and bottles stone-milled, cold-pressed, organic olive oil on the island of Crete…
