La collina blu

10/12/2024

10/12/2024

Posted • Tjohoo, tomten kom med en pall La Collina Blu! Så glada vi blev!!🤩 men VAR ska vi få plats med alla flaskor😅??? Vi måste bli av med ett gäng så kom hit och köp! 😆😀

Första batchen rök i helgen. Nu finns det ”bara”94st flaskor kvar. Köp årets kvalité- & hantverksjulklapp 2024 på Juniper Tree. God jul!




#2024

09/12/2024

has found her first home in Italy! At one of the most renowned spots for traditional Tuscan cuisine in Florence, with a fantastic wine list and selection of extra virgin olive oils.
I couldn’t be happier!
Grazie & 🙏⭐️🫶

06/12/2024

- our story

La Collina Blu is a tribute to the beautiful blue light that surrounds our Tuscan hill just before sunset. It is also a tribute to Blue Hill, the complicated suburb north of Stockholm where I grew up. The label reminds the thirteen-floor tall houses and their thousands of windows in Blue Hill. Here, kids start out with very little, but with a little love and trust, they are capable of giving back much more than you could ever imagine. Just like olive trees.

One if the persons that gave a lot (in his own personal way😜) is my basketball coach Suleyman Boyaci, that I went visiting two years ago after 25 years (did I cry?)

Suleyman, who started Harem Basket in Blue Hill to get kids off the streets, coached all the teams and spent more time with us than at home.

We, who had uniforms that were too small and were laughed at, were crammed into Suleyman’s red Volvo station wagon (read: trunk) to get rides to the games when all the parents were working. We received the worst practice times and gymnasiums - and yet we won everything!

So many of us learned that hard work pays off, to be both a leader and a team player, and that when you’re about to lose, you work harder. Many of us went on to national teams and college scholarships, but perhaps most importantly, we learned the lesson that alone, you are nobody - and that small projects with big hearts sometimes can make a difference.

06/12/2024

Tins! Instead of calling them a nightmare I call them therapy! We only make them on request because it takes too much time …but for you, & this and more. 😜😍
Ps and you do CrossFit but don’t manage to put in the closure 😅🤷🏼‍♀️

27/11/2024

Surprised and glad: made her first TV appearance in Swedish national television on the other day (I have know idea how this happened) - and overwhelmed by you - texting, cheering, sending pics and being happy for us. I’m so grateful for being surrounded by all of you believing in our small project (with a big heart) - grazie di ♥️

16/11/2024

The right shade of blue has arrived! And me trying to be social 😂
in the making - and when we say handmade - we mean handmade ⭐️

12/11/2024

Bottling some samples of since we are waiting for new labels with the right shade of blue. If it’s called La Collina Blu you have to be picky about the color…💁‍♀️ and printing labels is a nightmare. Something always goes wrong. But hey, this year’s extra virgin olive oil is great, healthy and a lot of olives but low yields (9% of oil instead of 12-13%) but you can’t have it all and when you drive in the Tuscan countryside you can’t be but happy, can’t you?

27/10/2024

This is how we do it -
I love the moment when our green gold is finally arriving. It’s the same great emotions every year. 😍

1. Harvest- Olives are harvested and then brought to the press as quickly as possible. The fresher the olives the better the oil.
2. Defoliation- This step involves removing twigs and leaves from the olives to ensure only the fruit is processed.
3. Washing- The olives are washed to eliminate dirt and contaminants.
4. Crushing- The olives are mechanically crushed to create a paste and extra virgin olive oils are cold pressed meaning the temperature must not exceed 27°C (80°F) to preserve quality. This is done to maintain the oil’s natural flavors, aromas, and beneficial compounds, ensuring a high-quality final product.
5. Grading - The crushed paste is homogenized to ensure uniform consistency and to create bigger drops of oil.
6. Decanter - This process separates the oil from the vegetable water and pomace through centrifugal force.
7. Filtration - The extracted oil is filtered to remove any remaining solids and impurities.

Voila!

Soon we are ready to start bottling (I’m the bottling machine 🙋‍♀️😁🤓)
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Ps added the good old promo video (that also explains why I don’t do videos 😆)

Ps 2 Pic with mozzarella by (love u)

20/09/2024

WARNING!
Once you discover true made in Italy, you don’t go back.

We are ready to take your preorder of the next vintage of our Tuscan extra virgin olive oil.
Email us at: [email protected]

21/07/2024

Är ni på sommarturné i Sverige?
Då hittar ni hos:
i Falkenberg
i Visby
på NK och Drottninggatan i Stockholm
i Skellefteå

Sommargrönt blir extra gott med en riktigt bra extra jungfruolja - men det vet ni ju redan.

Pic by 🙏

16/06/2024

Yesterday we had our first visitors at - a small group of lovely curious fun Australians - we had walk among the olive trees and ended with an olive oil tasting. We do see it as a mission to spread the word about high quality extra virgin olive oil.

Our new t-shirts arrived on time. Thanks to the king of tags in Stockholm for helping us with the design. I’m so glad I crossed your path 🫶⭐️ Extra Virgin Fo’evoo 😜

05/05/2024

So happy that Ville from (number one pizza napoletana in Sweden and an amazing wine list) came to see our olive trees and inhouse olive press and where me make

was the first one to believe in - our small project (with a big heart) and I remember when Ville ordered the first 100 bottles and I said: “are you sure, that’s really a lot of bottles” - I then learnt a sales person should not say that 😂

You are always grateful towards the persons that believe in you from the beginning, aren’t you?

17/10/2023

La Collina Blu - preorder our extra virgin olive oil now by sending an email to [email protected] - we ship door to door.

La Collina Blu is a small project with a big heart. It started with pure passion, in between things (no business plan, nope), and has gone beyond any expectations.

The name is a tribute to Blue Hill, the complicated suburb North of Stockholm where I grew up. Here, kids start with very little, but with some love, they are capable of giving back so much - just like olive trees.

Thanks to all of you that is part of our journey - we are beyond grateful ❤️

27/01/2023

Happy! our extra virgin olive oil featured today in Sweden's biggest newspaper 😍🙏

Small project, big heart

05/01/2023

Posted • Pastagratäng med soffritto och salsiccia, toppas givetvis med universums godaste olivolja

20/12/2022

Vi är glada över att få vara med på julbordet designat av på i Höganäs - där det också går att handla (ifall någon ännu inte är klar med julklapparna🙋‍♀️)