Atsas Silver Edition
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
250 ml · Single Varietal Koroneiki · Cyprus
£75+ £3.99 UK delivery
2,111 mg/Kg total polyphenols. 8.4× the level the EU requires before an olive oil may make its health claim.
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- Hand-packed and shipped by me, from London.
- Every batch is analysed, and the certificate is published here.
- Connoisseur Cough Clause: no peppery catch, full refund, keep the bottle.
The batch
This Bottle, On Paper.
Every figure below is taken off the certificate for this harvest. No adjectives, no badges: a buyer who knows what these numbers mean can check them, and a buyer who does not can see that they exist.
- Variety
- Koroneiki, single varietal
- Harvesting period
- October 2025
- Total polyphenols
- 2,111 mg/Kg
- Oleocanthal
- 229 mg/Kg
- Oleacein
- 204 mg/Kg
- Total hydroxytyrosol derivatives
- 1,007 mg/Kg
- Total tyrosol derivatives
- 1,104 mg/Kg
- Analysed by
- World Olive Center for Health, Athens
- Analysis date
- 20 October 2025
- Certificate number
- C2526-00152
- Estate
- V. Atsas Organic Products, Evrychou, Cyprus
- Volume
- 250 ml
Why it catches
The Peppery Finish Is The Measurement, Tasted.
That sting at the back of the throat is characteristic of oleocanthal, one of the phenols measured in this batch at 229 mg/Kg.
You are not being asked to take the number on trust. You can feel it on the first spoonful, which is the whole basis of the guarantee.
Everything else
Benefits, and what is behind each one
The one claim the law allows, and its conditions
“Olive oil polyphenols contribute to the protection of blood lipids from oxidative stress.” That wording is authorised under Regulation (EU) 432/2012. It comes with two conditions and both are printed here rather than left out: 20 g of the olive oil must carry at least 5 mg of hydroxytyrosol and its derivatives, and the effect is obtained with a daily intake of 20 g of olive oil.
This harvest’s certificate records 42.23 mg per 20 g. The condition asks for 5 mg. That is 8.4 times the level the claim is built on, which is the whole reason this bottle exists and the only health claim on this page.
What the rest of the numbers are
Oleocanthal, 229 mg/Kg. The compound behind the catch at the back of the throat. You are not asked to believe it, you taste it on the first spoonful.
Oleacein, 204 mg/Kg. Measured on the same certificate, reported separately because the lab reports it separately.
2,111 mg/Kg in total. On this site’s own supermarket benchmark of 50 to 150 mg/Kg, that is fourteen to forty times an ordinary bottle.
Every figure above is from certificate C2526-00152, World Olive Center for Health, Athens, 20 October 2025. No claim on this page goes beyond the authorised wording, and nothing here is medical advice.
How to take it
A teaspoon in the morning, straight, before anything else. Or over food: burrata, soup, warm bread, plain yoghurt. Heat is not the point, so it goes on at the end rather than in the pan.
If you were to take it daily, a 250 ml bottle runs about six to seven weeks at a teaspoon a day. That is a rate, not a prescription: take it as often as you want to.
The first spoonful, properly
- Warm a little in a small glass with your hand.
- Breathe in at the rim.
- Take a small sip and hold it.
- Swallow, and wait two seconds.
Note the daily intake attached to the EU claim above is 20 g of olive oil, which is more than a teaspoon. The ritual and the claim are two different things and this page does not mix them.
The estate and how it is made
Atsas is a single estate at Evrychou, in the Solea valley in Cyprus, on the edge of the UN buffer zone. The land saw no industrial farming and no chemical sprays for over fifty years before the family took it on in 2012.
There was barely a centimetre of topsoil over the rock. Compost, beneficial microorganisms and mycorrhizal fungi networks turned it into living soil in four years. Weeds are trimmed, never pulled. Nothing synthetic, ever. Certified organic.
It is the driest corner of Cyprus. The farm irrigates as little as it can, from rainwater it catches itself in a hillside reservoir. That stress is what pushes the trees to put their defences into the fruit as phenols.
Picked green, by hand or with small tools. Cold extraction within 30 minutes of picking, into nitrogen-sealed tanks within three hours, nothing added and nothing filtered out. Bottled to order in black glass, which is what keeps the payload intact until you open it.
Single estate, single varietal Koroneiki, both confirmed by the producer. Silver is drawn from the estate’s Koroneiki trees rather than one named parcel.
Shipping, returns and the guarantee
Shipping
£3.99 across the UK. Bottled to order, so your bottle goes into the next batch: expect two to four weeks from your order to your door. It ships from the farm in Cyprus to me in London, and I open the shipment, check it and hand-pack your bottle myself.
The Connoisseur Cough Clause
Take it the way a sommelier takes it. If it doesn’t kick you in the back of the throat and make you cough, it’s on me. If your first bottle fails to deliver that promised, intense, peppery throat-catch within 30 days of delivery, tell me directly and I will personally refund your £75. You keep the bottle.
One claim per household. The £3.99 postage and packaging is not refunded.
Your statutory rights
This promise sits on top of your legal rights and does not replace them. Under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 you may cancel an online order within 14 days of receiving it and return it for a refund.
The evidence: certificate, awards, studies
This batch
Certificate of analysis C2526-00152, issued by the World Olive Center for Health, Athens, on 20 October 2025. Harvesting period October 2025, variety Koroneiki. The full document is published and linked at the top of this page.
Awards, named in full
Berlin Global Olive Oil Awards, Platinum 2026, High Polyphenols
London International Olive Oil Health Competition, Platinum 2026, Health Claim
Paris International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition, Silver 2026, High Phenolic
Olympia Awards, Gold 2025 to 2026, Health & Nutrition
NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition, Gold 2021, Silver 2022, Silver 2023, Silver 2025
These are Atsas Silver results, not farm-wide. There was no NYIOOC result in 2024, and the 2025 Gold that Atsas holds belongs to a different product, Atsas Gold Blend, not to Silver.
The 2017 record
In 2017 this farm produced the highest-phenolic olive oil of 7,854 tested from 15 countries, at 4,947 mg/Kg. That was a different varietal in a different year: it is the estate’s record, not this bottle’s, and this bottle is not sold as the record oil.
Source: PMC7923275. The bottle on this page is the October 2025 Koroneiki harvest at 2,111 mg/Kg.