Enter the batch number on the back of your label; see which grove and which harvest the oil in your bottle came from.
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The batch code on your bottle is not a new idea; counting, weighing and documenting the olive has a long tradition on this coast. A few stops from the documents:
In the villages of Onaç/Araplar and Murad İli, 22,896 olive trees were entered one by one into the fiscal registers. The tree was no longer just part of nature; it had an owner and a record.
Source: Zeki Arıkan, The Olive Oil Trade between Lesbos and Istanbul, 2006 — Ottoman archival records.Olive oil for the imperial pantry, the Kilâr-ı Hümâyun, was purchased from Lesbos and Edremit; the Gulf's oil is documented on the palace table.
Source: Faruk Doğan, Olive Oil in the Ottoman Empire (1800–1920), doctoral thesis, Marmara University, 2007.Servet-i Fünun counted 78 olive oil mills and 26 soap works in Ayvalık. Not a town, but a production city built around the olive.
Source: Servet-i Fünun, 16 February 1893, p. 9.A British Foreign Office handbook judged the Ayvalık–Edremit oil the finest edible oil of its era in Asia Minor.
Source: Great Britain, Foreign Office, Anatolia, Peace Handbook No. 59, London, 1920, p. 62.We carry that tradition on: where fiscal ledgers and consular reports once stood, today there is the batch code on your bottle.