Mainly Red Island but if not available, any Australian grown, pressed and owned.
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Mount Zee from Farmers’ Market
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I buy Cobram Estate EVO also, mainly because it is an Australian made product, where as a lot of the other oils are imported, and, in the past, have been “dumped” in Australia well after there use by date.
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Cobram in a 3l tin and decant
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Locally produced from the local grower’s market in Denmark WA. Bring your own bottle and have it filled up. You can usually chose between single variety pressings.
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I prefer cold pressed evoo, my favourite coming from Olio Bello in the beautiful Margaret River. This is expensive and I use it basically for marinating and dressings. For cooking whatever Aussie evoo is on special when I need to stock up.
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Sounds really good . Thank you for the input .
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Yes the Margaret River is indeed beautiful . Thank you for advising us of this Olive oil .
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I usually buy Moro extra virgin, and light (for cooking).
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We use woolworths home brand.
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Red Island brand Olive oil
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We only ever buy Jingilli - in both the 500ML bottle and the 2L cask. We don’t like the cask much as it usually drips and leaks … and the carton is a bit of a mess by the time it’s finished. We buy this oil exclusively because for us it has to be Australian … and we prefer to avoid halal certification.
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I tried Jingilli a while ago . Was ok . Good full flavour .
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The Olive Tree (an Aldi brand). Australian. 3 litres.
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Cobram or Red Island for salads and light cooking
Rice bran oil oil for deep frying
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Firstly thank you to everybody that took the time to post in this thread . Secondly I’m not involved with any marketing organisation and this is strictly a labour of love between myself and 3 friends . /
In the future one of them , a previous poster on this forum , hopes to condense a lot of the results into a Wiki type form and start a general buying guide on this forum. I hope all goes well for her ./
We had to naturally set up a criteria where we could make the results easy absorb and not be that long winded and technical that a science degree was needed to understand them ./
We chose 3 parameters 1 ) Presentation in shop . That is , how visible was the product .Did this contribute to its popularity or lack there of ./
2 ) Marketing . Not TV ads per say but the use of modern social media such as Youtube , Facebook etc ./
3 ) Price . Value for money as balanced against quality rendered .
By the posts given Australian EVO ( Extra Virgin Olive oil ) was the most popular . The eye level presentations at Coles and Woolies were for the majority Australian . Aldi mixed things up a bit .Local produce with imported . We mainly checked supermarkets out in the Western suburbs of Melbourne so that in itself adds variables . 10-15 years ago it was all imported EVO at eye level with the local product at foot or ankle level . Things seem to have changed . Our EVO industry has grown up ./
Marketing : Of all the EVO’s Cobram estate came out as the most popular . Cobram Estates Youtube presentations are very professionally made . They inform without being over technical and impart a feeling that this is the oil to buy . Great use of modern social media . Squeaky Gate and Red Hill also did a great job on Youtube but lacked the polish of Cobram Estate ./
Price: Again Cobram Estate seems to have found a happy medium price wise . Most Australian supermarket oils seem to fit the same parameter . Maybe if I was to do this post in a year Red Hill or Squeaky Gate would come out on top . In general all the EVO’s both local and imported offered good value at supermarket level . Unfortunately time and resources did not allow us to investigate more Boutique EVo’s ./
That’s the summation I will do on the post . I could have expanded it to many other parameters but did not want to produce a bloated document just repeating data already obvious within the posts … Thanks again to the posters and please keep the EVO 's you buy being listed here .
Mike
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Great job Mike, look forward to seeing the buying guide come together 
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Just in case it’s of interest to others commenting on this thread, here is our recent olive oil review.
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Some nice results in there.
Was the line "She adds, “Minos is a quality EVVO product that has always passed lab tests to qualify it for EVOO status.” " correct or was EVVO and then EVOO a typing mistake on either of the acronyms?
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