Lelea's Olive Oil Tasting & Autumn Table

Four oils, good food, and a sommelier to guide you through flavor, terroir, and the farmers behind every drop. Part 1: The Tasting In this workshop you will taste four award-winning, organic olive oils pure. Just like you would with wine. Trust me on this one. As your olive oil sommelier for the day, I’ll show you how to taste properly: what to look for, what to stay away from. This is how you truly understand olive oil and get to experience it in its full range of flavors and sensations. Just like wine, olive oil has terroir, character, and story. The variety, the soil, the harvest date — all of it ends up in the bottle, and all of it ends up on your plate. You’ll learn what separates a great olive oil from a mediocre one (or a fraudulent one), how to read the label, and how to store it at home to preserve quality for longer. Part 2: Food pairing playground The best part: we play with pairings. You will be provided with several ingredients (savory & sweet) and will be invited to try the different oils on them. Which oil goes with raw vegetables? With legumes? With ice cream, with chocolate? What works, what doesn’t and I will explain why. You will discover your favorites and discuss them with others. The answers will surprise you — and change the way you use it. Part 3: Shared Table Honoring our Mediterranean heritage, we close the tasting with a drink and small plates matching the olive oils we tasted and meant to be shared with other curious food lovers. Get inspired and experience the olive oils in their full glory! You’ll go home with a sharper palate, new knowledge, and concrete ideas to get more flavour and nutrition out of what you eat. About your host Lelea is a Rotterdam-based olive oil brand sourcing single-origin extra virgin oils directly from small regenerative and organic farms across the Mediterranean. Behind Lelea is Eleftheria — Greek-born, Rotterdam-based, and a certified olive oil sommelier trained at ESAO and the International Olive Oil Network. Until 2015 she ran Rotterdam Wine Lovers, an international wine club with 400 members. She brings a wine-world lens to olive oil: terroir, character, story, and the people behind every harvest. This tasting is her way of sharing that with you.