

CBS Good Day Sacramento at Bondolio Olive Oil Farm
July 9, 2021
CBS 13 Good Day Sacramento
Julissa Ortiz is in Winters at Bondolio Olive Oil Farm, checking out the orchard and learning the history of their Sicilian trees!
Karen shows viewers how to do their own olive oil tasting at home.

2019 winner of Best of Show at the California State Fair Extra Virgin Olive Oil competition
Once more Bondolio wins top honors at the California State Fair
Almost impossible to do but Bondolio pulled off another sweep of gold medals to win best of show. As in 2017, our oil had to undergo 4 separate competitions all leading up to the final panel of sensory judges tasting our liquid gold…

AFAR – America’s Tuscany & BONDOLIO
We love all things Italian—including, of course, olive oil.
Unfortunately, according to the American Olive Oil Producers Association, as much as 75 percent of the extra virgin olive oil that is imported from Italy to the United States is unpure. The Italian Mafia is to…

Parmigiano and Balsamic on the way to Bondolio
Early this morning, Karen called our friends in Modena Italy - at the end of the call a bit of heaven in the form of parmigiano and balsamic were on their way to Bondolio.
If you have not tried either of these, you are in for a Bondolio treat. A couple years ago Karen, being Karen, did a lot of tastings…

Cheese Plus
Cheese Plus joins the Bondolio family.
At the corner of Polk and Pacific in San Francisco, you can not only pick up a bottle of Bondolio but you can enjoy a fantastic grilled cheese sandwich.

Fancy Food, Alice Waters and Chance
Leading up to the Winter Fancy Food meeting at the Moscone was the Good Food Mercantile held at Fort Mason along the San Francisco Bay shoreline next to the marina.
Bondolio was present with a booth and along with Karen was Chance Grossman, a very talented freshly minted college grad and pilot.
Unlike…

Karen’s knee repaired in Vail
Karen injured her left knee during strength training class. Turned out to be a torn meniscus. For Karen, there is only one place on earth to have a knee or shoulder procedure, the Steadman Clinic in Vail. In this photo, Karen is 24 hours post op and on her way to grab something to eat in between the…

Norma receives a bottle of Olio Nouvo
Here’s a snap of Karen, the special delivery courier of Bondolio Nuovo to Norma Bond the host of the thanksgiving dinner for the Bond family. Norma is a retired school teacher living in the woods of the Sierra Nevada just outside the Lassen National Park. Norma is 93 years young, a retired school teacher, a…

Pasta Shop
We dropped off samples of Bondolio Nuovo Olio to the California Olive Oil Council for extra virgin certification. Each year Bondolio must be tested to insure the oil complies with COOC requirements of both a chemical analysis and a sensory evaluation. After a short visit with COOC Patty, Lisa and Ingred we…