Onsa's Olive Oil

We’ve been selling oil from Majid Mahjoub—our source for couscous, harissa, and a slew of outstanding foods from Tunisia—for a few years now. But brand new to our shelves is Onsa’s extra virgin olive oil, named for Majid’s wife Onsa.

It’s made from unique-to-Tunisia chetoui olives. In a small section of Majid’s organic orchard, the olives are allowed to remain on the tree a bit longer before harvesting. Harvesting the olives when they’re more mature lends a softer, sweeter quality to the oil, though it’s still got a healthy, bitter, peppery kick.

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Extra virgin olive oil
Chetoui olives
Smooth and assertive flavors
Harvested in late 2023 / early 2024. The oil from the most recent harvest is definitely on the more assertive side. The flavor is green and grassy right at the start, with a pervasive bitterness that leads into a throat-warming black pepper heat. The finish is long and lingering.