Neudorf Olives

Neudorf Olives is a family run grove, found high in the rolling hills of Upper Moutere. This is an area that combines high sunshine hours with the ideal growing conditions of the Moutere clay soils.

We bought the grove in early 2022. It consists of 1310 mature olive trees, in two Tuscan varieties – Leccino and Frantoio, and one Greek variety – Koroneiki. Planted predominantly on steep hillsides, this presents us with challenging conditions for maintenance and harvesting but provides us with spectacular sea and mountain views of the Abel Tasman and Kahuranghi National parks.

Our olives are harvested between June and July each year using hand held ‘shakers and flappers’ with nets spread under the trees to catch the olives, hopefully before they run down the hillside. We press the olives with our centrifuge press within 24 hours, but more often within 4 hours, of harvest. Carrying out the whole process on site enables us to monitor every stage and produce oil of the highest quality.

We have entered our oils into the annual Olives New Zealand Extra Virgin Olive Oil competition and have won awards for our entries in the past but no longer do this due to the associated costs.