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Erdek Kapıdağ Olive Oil: an oil whose grade changes in dry years

Registered in 2024. The certificate admits something rare: in dry periods the oil can fall from extra virgin to virgin grade.

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Registration documents describe a product at its best. The certificate for Erdek Kapıdağ Olive Oil also records an exception: in dry years the oil can change grade.

The record

Registration no1733
Protection from29.12.2023
TypeGeographical indication
Registered byErdek Chamber of Commerce
AreaThe Erdek district of Balıkesir
CultivarsErdek Yağlık · Gemlik · Erdek Su

An honest provision

t; Depending on climatic conditions it generally falls in the extra virgin class, but particularly in dry periods it falls into the virgin olive oil category.

This is a rare admission in a registration. Extra virgin means acidity ≤0.8%, virgin ≤2.0%. Drought creates water stress in the fruit and acidity rises. Rather than concealing this, the certificate writes it into the definition.

Erdek Kapıdağ Olive Oil: an oil whose grade changes in dry years

A blend of three cultivars

The oil is obtained as a blend of Erdek Yağlık, Gemlik and Erdek Su. It is one of the registrations not resting on a single cultivar — the blend reflects how the local groves are actually planted.

At room temperature it is clear and flowing, its colour running from green to yellow. Fruitiness varies from medium to high, with bitterness and pungency present.

Aroma compounds

Compound % Perception
3-hexen-1-ol3 – 10green, green apple
2-hexen-1-ol1 – 35banana, leafy, green-fruity, bitter
1-hexanol0.5 – 12fruity, freshly cut grass
E-3-hexenyl acetate1 – 10green, banana
Hexyl acetate0.5 – 4sweet fruity
Limonene0.5 – 3lemon
E-β-ocimene0 – 3fruity-leafy
E,E-farnesene0.5 – 3green

Recording which perception each compound produces is a level of detail rarely seen in aroma tables.

Why here

Erdek lies in a temperate belt; the certificate says this acts as a natural air conditioner, and that the loamy soils contribute. Edincik Olive and Edincik Su Olive Oil are registered around the same gulf.

The criteria the document binds

The registration does not only protect a name; it defines the product numerically:

CriterionValue in the document
Free acidity (as oleic acid)max %2
Processing temperaturemax 27 °C

Capping processing at 27 °C is what cold extraction means in practice: above that threshold yield rises but aroma compounds and phenolics are lost.

Inspection. The inspection body convenes with at least 4 kişi. Members: Erdek Ticaret Odası, Zeytin Tarım Satış Kooperatifi ve Erdek Ziraat Odası. Results are reported under Industrial Property Law no. 6769 and submitted to the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office.

The production steps in the document

The registration describes production step by step. The document's own sequence:

1. Zeytinlerin taşınması — Zeytinlerin fabrikalara taşınması; gıda ile temasa ve havalandırmaya uygun plastik kasalar ile yapılır.

2. Zeytinlerin temizlemesi ve yıkanması — Hasat sonrası zeytinlerde mevcut olabilecek ince dal, toprak, toz, taş ve diğer bitkisel materyaller gibi yabancı maddeler hava akımı ve basınçlı su (içilebilir nitelikte) sirkülasyonu ile ayıklanır.

3. Zeytinlerin kırılması — Zeytinler, kırıcı üniteler ile kırılır, parçalanır.

4. Zeytinlerin yoğrulması — Kırıcıdan çıkan zeytin hamuru yoğurucuya aktarılır ve burada hamurun bünyesinde yer alan küçük yağ damlacıklarının birleşerek büyümesi sağlanır.

5. Sıvı ve katı fazın ayrılması — Sıvı ve katı fazın ayrılmasında 2 fazlı santrifüj dekantörler kullanılır.

6. Kara suyun zeytinyağından ayrılması — Santrifüj sistemi ile elde edilen yağ-kara su karışımındaki kara suyun ayrılması için separatör (dikey santrifüj dekantörü) kullanılır.

7. Zeytinyağının depolanması ve ambalajlanması — Erdek Kapıdağ Zeytinyağının depolanmasında genellikle paslanmaz çelik veya krom nikel kaplı tanklar kullanılır.

That this sequence is binding is what separates a geographical indication from a trade mark: a mark says who produced something, a geographical indication also sets down how it must be produced.

Its place in Balıkesir's olive production

ItemValue
Fruit production314,189 t
— for oil268,283 t
— for the table45,905 t
Olive oil production47,618 t
Trees11,345 thousand
Yield per tree27.7 kg

85% of the province's fruit goes to oil. An oil-based registration matches how the province actually produces.

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