ALTO Olives

Take sunshine, clean country air, constant warm days and cool nights – add professional grove management and a dash of ingenuity – and you have ALTO Olives. The foothills of Australia’s Great Dividing Range are home to ALTO Olives, a dynamic family enterprise producing a diverse portfolio of exceptional quality Extra Virgin Olive Oils and Table Olives.

The foothills of Australia’s Great Dividing Range are home to ALTO Olives, a dynamic family enterprise producing a diverse portfolio of exceptional quality Extra Virgin Olive Oils and Table Olives. Established in 1999, the high altitude cool climate ALTO groves are located near Crookwell, New South Wales, on the western facing slopes of the Great Divide, the landmass that separates Australia’s coast from the inland. Since the 1860s this relatively isolated prosperous farming region has attracted pioneers seeking to produce high quality food – grain, meat, vegetables – and more recently – olives. The ALTO estate comprises 15,000 olive trees of different European origin varieties, each chosen for particular attributes – suitability to the climate, oil yield, quality and consistency. The varieties cultivated include Arbequina, Barnea, Black Italian, Coreggiola, Frantoio, Hardy’s Mammoth, Kalamata, Koroneiki, Leccino, Manzanilla, Minerva, Pendolino, Sevillano and Volos. Each season the olive crop is gently machine harvested and processed with minimal delay to produce award-winning ALTO Extra Virgin oils, while the ALTO table olive varieties are hand harvested and processed according to the standards set by the Australian Olive Association (AOA). ALTO Olives is a signatory to the Australian Olive Association (AOA) Code of Practice and all ALTO products carry the AOA quality marque.