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GOLD RIVER COMPANY NEWS
The Gold River Company now has an e-
commerce website and a Facebook account.
We invite you to peruse our fine selection
of gourmet food products but first we would
like to tell you a story.
Once Upon A Time
Once upon a time The Gold River Company
only sold one thing, our ‘Pure Frantoio’
Extra Virgin Olive Oil. A neighbor of ours
has 700 olive trees that they had never
picked. After negotiating with them to pick
their olives we bought picking crates; rakes;
nets; a vat and hired pickers. The 700 trees
were of the Frantoio variety, a northern
Tuscan [Italy] strain of olive.
We would pick our olives and at 5.00 am
the next morning we would do the ‘hell
drive’ to Fish Creek, South Gippsland.
Driving a hire truck in the dark on
unfamiliar pot hole ridden roads to our
destination 1 ½ hours away.
On arrival we would unload the harvest,
typically around 1,200 kilos, and proceed to
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load the olives into the hopper of a state of
the art olive oil extraction machine. The oil
we produce is of the highest quality and is
as good as any oil to be found anywhere in
the world.
I have never had a bad report about our
‘Pure Frantoio’ Extra Virgin Olive Oil only
infinite compliments. A typical critique of
our oil sounds something like this. ‘I don’t
say this lightly but that is the nicest oil I
have ever tasted!’. Or ‘Since I started using
your oil I cannot use anything else’.
After the initial success of the ‘Frantoio’
we began adding to our range with other
local produce such as: Smoked/Infused
Salts; aged Red Wine Vinegar; Apple Cider
Vinegar; Honey; Mustards; Saffron
etc… thus creating The Gold River
Company.
Michael Sweet
Website: http://
thegoldrivercompany.com.au/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
thegoldrivercompany/
ELI’S
ELECTRICAL
CONTRACTOR
Servicing the
entire Bass Coast area
Prompt friendly and
reliable service
No job too big or small
Call Eli now
0411 292 701
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