Dalmatia, Croatia  ·  First Harvest 2025

Maslina

Three ancient olives. One Dalmatian coast.
Nothing else.

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✦ Estate & partner groves · Dalmatia
✦ 2,000 years of cultivation
✦ Hand harvested · Cold pressed within 6 hours
✦ HPLC certified · Every batch
✦ 375ml · Numbered · Dated

Most olive oil is not olive oil.
Maslina is.

Studies show more than 70% of olive oil sold in the United States fails to meet the basic standard for extra virgin. Blended. Diluted. Mislabeled. We built the antidote — a single origin, single variety oil from a coast that has been producing extraordinary oil for over two thousand years. Before Rome was an empire, this coast was already pressing olives. And we prove every bottle with an independent lab certificate.

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Dalmatia

The Groves

Before there was Italy,
there was Dalmatia.
These coasts remember.

Olive cultivation on this coast predates the Roman Empire. By the time Emperor Diocletian — born on this very shore — retired to his palace in Split, these groves were already ancient. He chose this land above the throne of Rome. Two thousand years later, we understand why.

We source exclusively from growers who hold to the same unbroken standard: indigenous Dalmatian varietals only, harvested by hand at first blush, pressed the same day. Each grower is selected not for volume but for devotion. If the standard is not met, the fruit does not become Maslina.

"The land does the work. We simply refuse to undo it."

1,000+
Years · our oldest trees
4–6
Hours harvest to press
3
Dalmatian varietals · never blended

The Science

800+
mg/kg polyphenols

Independently HPLC certified · Every batch · Published

Maslina
800+
Premium GK
~320
Italian EVOO
~210
Supermarket
<80

Why It Matters

The rarest oils are not
made in a factory.
They are grown in stone.

The same mineral-dense limestone soil that Roman agronomists documented in the first century still produces fruit of extraordinary phenolic concentration. Terroir this old does not need improvement. Our Oblica, Lastovka, and Levantinka varietals grown on Dalmatian karst are among the highest polyphenol-testing oils in the world. We harvest before full ripeness, when phenolic compounds peak. We press within hours.

The result is an oil that qualifies for EU cardiovascular health claims at three times the required threshold. Every Maslina lot is independently tested by HPLC analysis — the only method recognized by the International Olive Council. The certificate is published. The number is on the label. The proof is in every bottle.

EU health regulations authorize cardiovascular benefit claims only for oils exceeding 250 mg/kg polyphenols. Every Maslina expression qualifies — most by a factor of three or more.

From Grove to Bottle

The standard has never changed.

I

Hand Harvest

Picked by hand at first blush — before full ripeness, when polyphenol concentration reaches its annual peak.

II

Same-Day Press

From grove to cold press within 4–6 hours. Time is the enemy of quality. We do not store olives. We do not wait.

III

HPLC Certified

Every batch independently tested and certified. Polyphenol count, acidity, purity. The certificate of analysis is published with each lot number.

IV

Sealed & Numbered

Dark glass. Nitrogen-flushed. Every bottle individually numbered and dated. The harvest year, the lot, the variety — all on the label.

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Where It Comes From

Even emperors came home to Dalmatia.

Sun, salt air,
and limestone.
Two thousand years of proof.

Emperor Diocletian was born on this coast, ruled Rome, and chose to retire here. He built his palace in Split, tended his gardens, and spent his final years on the same limestone shores our groves overlook. For over two thousand years, this coast has sent its oil across the Adriatic. The routes have changed. The oil has not.

Karst limestone soil, mineral-dense and ancient, forces the tree's roots deep — concentrating everything upward into fruit of rare intensity. These are not conditions that can be engineered or transplanted. They exist on one coast. They have always existed on one coast.

Oblica  ·  Lastovka  ·  Levantinka
Three indigenous Dalmatian varieties  ·  Never blended  ·  Never compromised

The Collection

Three expressions.
One standard.

Monovarietal. Single origin. Every bottle numbered, dated, and independently certified.

MASLINA Oblica

OBLICA

Dalmatia's most celebrated variety

Sweet at first, then a slow green wave of pungency. The most antioxidant-rich expression in our collection. Exactly what olive oil was always supposed to taste like.

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MASLINA Lastovka

LASTOVKA

For those who want to taste the grove

Bold, bitter, arrestingly complex. Notes of fresh olive leaf and wild herbs. A long, pungent finish that stays with you. This is olive oil at its most uncompromising.

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MASLINA Levantinka

LEVANTINKA

From our oldest trees

Fruity, layered, with a warmth that lingers. The highest vitamin E content of our three varieties. A rarer expression — fewer trees, smaller yield, unmistakable character.

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Production is finite by design  ·  First harvest October 2025  ·  Allocation by reservation only

On Maslina

"

There are perhaps a dozen oils in the world that make you stop. That make you understand, for the first time, what this fruit is capable of when nothing is taken from it. Maslina is three of them.

— Chef, New York

First Harvest  ·  2025

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allocation.

Production is finite by design. Reserve your allocation — no payment today. Your bottles are held and charged only when the harvest is confirmed.

$80  ·  375ml  ·  Numbered  ·  Ships Fall 2025

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