Almost every single extra virgin olive oil blog online will tell you to store your olive oil in a dark bottle, preferably somewhere cool with very little light. The truth is that if you are in possession of a few bottles of ultra premium extra virgin olive oil, this is simply not necessary.

Since our olive oil doesn't sit under the intense UV lights on supermarket shelves, we simply don't have to use dark bottles.

At Selo, we have the luxury of shipping directly to our customers. This means our customers have the luxury of showing off their liquid gold to friends and family, and don't have to worry about rancid oils and spoilage.

Precaution aside, the main reason that large industrial producers of olive oil sell their wares in dark tinted bottles is that they are often cut with industrial seed oils that spoil easily.

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From the grandparent's farm, located in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, near Zadar.

Typically, we recommend using the oil within about a year and a half of the harvest date.

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Olive oil is an extraordinarily robust fruit juice so freezing temperatures just won’t affect its nutrient content.

Recent research by Mulinacci et al (2013) has proven that freezing temperatures have no effect on olive oil quality.

Basically, a bunch of very smart chemists from Italy discovered that freezing extra virgin olive oil for 12-18 months at  not only had no impact on its nutrient content—compared to olive oil stored in the dark at room temperature for the same period of time—it even improved its aromatic profile.

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At the current moment, we ship ONLY to the United States and Canada.

If you are based in another part of the world and are willing to cover the additional shipping costs, we can ship it to you. Do note, it will probably be very expensive.

Send an email to Hello@SeloOils.com and we'll work it out.

Vancouver, British Columbia.

Over time, we hope to be able to, especially because Croatia is already in the European Union.

However, as of this moment, it's simply not feasible to ship from Croatia to our customers in North America (the primary market). Croatia is a small country with much to love, but their postage rates is not one of those things.

It would cost a small fortune (likely several times the cost of a bottle) to ship it directly from our olive farm to a customer's door in North America. Hence, we first export in bulk to NA and ship it from there to our customers.

If you have placed an order that will go to Europe, you will have to select International Air, Tracked Packet International or Xpresspost International as your shipping option. Packet tracking is not available for International Surface shipping.