Cradle Coast Olives Paragon Extra Virgin Olive Oil

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Award Record
8 awards
Across 8 releases · 1 competition Latest: Bronze · 2025 AIOA
Phenols
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Latest Release
2025
9 releases recorded

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.

Evidence over time

Release History

2026
Current harvest year

No release has been recorded for this harvest year yet.

Varieties
2024
Varieties
2023
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 202...

Varieties
2022
Varieties
2021
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2020
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2019
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2017
1996
Producer established

Cradle Coast Olives was established in 1996.

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Sensory Profile

Fruitiness 4.3
Fruitiness refers to the aroma and taste of fresh, ripe or green olives in the oil.
Bitterness 3.1
Bitterness is a positive sensory attribute of an EVOO. It can also signal the presence of phenolic compounds.
Pungency 3.5
Pungency is the pleasant peppery or spicy sensation experienced at the back of the throat when tasting olive oil.
Polyphenols 7
Polyphenols are naturally occurring compounds found in olives and other plants. In olive oil, reported phenolic content is a chemistry measure that can be associated with bitterness, pungency and oxidative stability; total phenols are not interchangeable with hydroxytyrosol-plus-derivatives measurement used for the EU-authorised wording.
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Estimated Based on profiles for: Frantoio .

Place & provenance

Sense of place

This oil is listed as originating in Derwent Valley, Tasmania, Australia.

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Listed originDerwent Valley, Tasmania, Australia
Olive composition

Single variety listed

The latest release lists Frantoio as its only recorded cultivar.

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A release listing one cultivar is useful when you want to explore that variety's typical character.

Worth knowing

One listed cultivar does not record a percentage, so it should not be treated as proof of 100% composition without a source saying so.

Release dataFrantoio

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