You did not mention the number of ounces/ml per bottle, and so the prices don't mean much.

You can get a special blend of Mission olive oil from Olivas de Oro in Paso Robles for $21 / 250 ml, but shipping cost will be additional.

At the grocery store, we buy California Olive Ranch, which is about $14 for 500 ml, but it tastes very different from what I get from Olivas de Oro, although it did win a silver award this year.

If you are buying 500 ml of Colavita, then $26.49 is definitely too high.

Incidentally, Italian olive oil, while very good, is not necessarily the best - Spanish oil often ranks higher in taste tests, but these are very subjective. I like Portuguese and Greek olive oils, as well as ones from California.

Europe has much stricter rules about labeling olive oils than the U.S. does - at least for ones sold in Europe, but ones in the U.S. that are exported to Europe have the same rules.

I buy California olive oil exclusively after seeing that 60 Minutes piece.

California Olive Ranch 100% California EV and their reserve Arbequina.

https://www.californiaoliveranch.com/

https://www.californiaoliveranch.com/collections/california-olive-ranch-olive-oil

When I read the labels, many "Italian Olive Oil" products are merely bottled in Italy, using oil from a variety of countries. Relatively few oils in my grocery stores are all-Italian, not a blend. The California olive oils taste fine to me, too.

lars, I too like California Olive Ranch oils. Our preference for a flavorful robust type is their oil made from the Arbequina variety. It's delicious. They tend to run out of it by springtime or earlier. A second choice is Arbosana. Both are 100% in-state grown.

I used to buy the Arbequina California Olive Ranch at Whole Foods or Target. Neither sells it anymore here, so I order direct from California Olive Ranch. It's free shipping with an $85 purchase.

Agree regarding CA Olive Ranch oils. I’ve also used and liked CA Estate Olive Oil from TJ’s. Though pricier, the ”O” brand of oils and vinegars have been favorites for years. I read somewhere the company was purchased by Colavita.

I'm not too concerned with olive oil - I buy whatever's cheapest at the time, and I don't use it often. However, when it comes to Extra Virgin Olive Oil, I'm very wedded to the taste of a particular EVOO from Crete, and I use that a lot. Yup, the price has gone up (I pay about $35 per litre now; when I started using it, I paid about $20/L), and I will go out of my way to find it. I haven't found an EVOO with a better taste at twice the price,

Wow - wondering where that store is located with prices like that? Is someone price gouging?

I go through lots of olive oil. I buy organic, and this one's the most economical, IMPE - $12.54 for 34oz. here.

I buy from Walmart, but it looks like Target has it too. Publix here has it as well, but that's a regional store. The price usually varies by about a dollar or so, but not more than that.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Terra-Delyssa-Organic-Extra-Virgin-Olive-Oil-34-fl-oz-Glass/174040925

For the most part I've been using Graza Drizzle and Sizzle sets from their website the last 2 or so years. I see it's going into stores now but only a few as introduction. Handful of Whole Foods, some Trader Joe's (I think?), Target. None near me. I've given the sets as gifts a few times and have heard no complaints 😊

But I'm not wedded to it. I find good olive oils at both Costco and Trader Joe's. Trader Joe's prices/quality are nice and the last bottle I bought there was Spanish. Family in Croatia insists it must be Croatian to be good and will bring me a bottle of theirs the years they come to visit.

I don't use olive oil exclusively, I have a couple of things I'll use vegetable oil for and DH likes to fry clams in vegetable oil. Oysters always lightly breaded and fried in coconut oil that sits in my cupboard next to a large bottle of avocado oil.

I hope y'all know that fruity, green olive oil is not a good choice to use as a cooking oil. Like for sauteeing veggies or frying something in a skillet, etc. because it has a low smoke point. The olive oil suited for such use is pale in color, mostly tasteless, and still has a lower smoke point than better cooking oil types. Peanut oil, sunflower, canola, avocado oil, and the like are better choices for cooking.

Arbequina purchased from California Olive Ranch is listed at $18 for 500 mL, half a liter. About Canadian $24.50. There are many far more expensive olive oils on the market but so far, I haven't found any with consistently better flavor I like better. Also, I know its provenance.

There's a lot of lousy olive oil grown in countries around the Mediterranean and finding the better ones can't be done simply by label or origin. Also, while the authorities are cracking down, a lot of olive oil is illegally rebranded, origin wise, and cheap olive oil often gets repackaged to appear as if from a higher quality region and sold at higher prices than the original oil accurately branded would command.

Edit to add - green olive oil is best suited to uses where its flavor enhances the food it's added to. Added to hummus or the like, drizzled over veggies or soup before serving, as a dip for bread, or, my favorite, as a dressing alone or with other things added before serving pastas or salad.

My sister and her husband own an olive orchard in South East Texas but in 2021 they had a severe freeze which prevented the trees from blooming and so they didn't have any olives at all. I haven't heard what is the latest on the orchard but the hard freeze is probably affecting the prices of olive oil. They had thought that they had lost the whole orchard but last I heard, they are recovering.

About a week ago I purchased, for the first time, Extra Virgin Filippo Berio Olive Oil, 750ml for $12. The write up I found says THIS:

Filippo Berio is one of the best-known olive-oil brands, it’s been around since 1867. Though they do an EVOO which is highly rated, we think the Karyatis oil beats it for affordability and quality.

OK...What is Karyatis? And...I thought $12 for 750ml was VERY affordable....?

It appears to be a brand of Greek oil. A search led me to a posting of a UK company, Odysea, that appears to own the brand. In the UK it was £7 for 500ml

I have gone to a souk every year to get their olive oil. The center that hosts the souk has not done so in the last few years, but I have bought online-all sold out at the moment. It is Al'Ard olive oil and comes in a 1L or 3L tin.

Carol, That's the olive oil my child wanted me to buy, after having had it on vacation at friends' house. They're the one who uses olive, almost exclusively, in our house. I find it serves my purposes

. The Colavita brand I have bought forever--at 19.99 and at $14.99 on sale--was $26.49. A new Big Lots Home store just opened recently. I was in there today and noticed that they had Colavita Extra Virgin Olive oil--34 oz size--for $15.99. Best by date sometime in 2025.