Our Olive Grove

Tucked away in a beautiful niche in the Napa Valley is a microclimate perfectly suited for growing delicious, fruity, rich, pungent olive oil. This is where Bill and Roxanne have chosen to locate their AlphaWOLF Vineyard and Olive Ranch.

This estate, extra virgin, unfiltered olive oil comes from 300 Tuscan varietal olives (second generation from Italy) which were planted in 2000. The varieties of Frantoio, Lecchino, Pendolino, Coratina, Maurino and Taggiasca have a history, in Italy, of making some of the finest oil in the world. The warm days and cool nights bring out that fruity flavor and peppery finish. The sustainable farming practices and hand picking help to insure that only the best olives are grown and harvested. We are certified Fish Friendly Farming, Green, Napa Sustainable and practice regenerative farming.

The olives are handpicked in November/December and cold pressed within 12 hours at Il Fiorello, a local olive press with a state of the art hammer press. The press turns the olives (pits and pulp) into a paste. The resulting paste is pumped into a centrifuge where the solids are separated from the liquids and the vegetable water and oil are further separated in a final centrifugal process. The olive oil is then placed in 55 gallon barrels to allow the solids to settle out of the oil for a few months before bottling.

We also produce a small amount of “Olio Nuevo” (New Oil) which is when we immediately bottle the freshly pressed oil before the solid particles settle out and the oil is spicy and cloudy. Chefs clamor for this flavorful oil. It then, after a few months, naturally settles and become the Extra Virgin Olive Oil for which we are known

We bottle our oil in a black can that we chose specifically to protect the oil from light which can cause the oil to become rancid on the shelf. It is highly recommended that you do not purchase olive oil in a clear container that allows the light to break it down. Store your oil in a dark, cool location.

AlphaWOLF Olive Oil has won many Gold medals for our oil and for label design.

We make a very limited amount of this olive oil (60+/- cases) and release it to our Wine & Olive Oil Club in May and December.

Large tree with broad branches and smaller trees with thin trunks and green leaves lining a paved pathway in a hilly, rural area under a blue sky with some clouds.
People harvesting olives from trees using ladders outdoors on a sunny day.
Several people harvesting fruit from trees using ladders in an orchard.
People harvesting olives in an orchard using ladders and collection buckets in cold weather.
A large collection of freshly harvested green and black olives with some leaves mixed in.
A brown dog running through an olive grove with shadowed dirt ground and multiple olive trees.
A brown curly-haired dog standing outdoors on dirt ground, surrounded by green bushes