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Cradle Coast Olives Paragon Extra Virgin Olive Oil

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Monovarietal Frantoio olive oil — variety guide

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Latest recorded release · 2025

8 awards across 8 releases

Latest: Bronze · AIOA · 2025

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Cradle Coast Olives' Paragon is a distinctive Frantoio shaped by the O'Neil family's cool climate Tasmanian property. Across the releases, it ranges from bright, complex aromas of aniseed, fennel, eucalyptus and dried herbs to greener notes of grass, olive leaf and stone fruit, with soft fruit and salad leaf flavours, peppery spice and a lingering finish. Since 1996, Carol and Tony O'Neil have paired careful grove management with same-day pressing in their on-site Olio Mio facility to preserve the variety's expressive character.

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Release History

2026
Current harvest year

No release has been recorded for this harvest year yet.

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2024
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2023
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Producer Notes
The oil displays, depending on vintage, a range of aromas and flavours - the 2023 release offers a complex nose of aniseed, fennel, eucalyptus, mint and dried herbs, leading to a palate of soft herbs, sweet fruit and salad-leaf notes with a lingering Sichuan pepper finish and low bitterness; the 2024 harvest is milder, with green-grass and stone-fruit aromas, a full mouthfeel, black-pepper spice, slight astringency and a medium finish.

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2022
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2021
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2020
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2019

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2018

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2017

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1996
Producer established

Cradle Coast Olives was established in 1996.

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