Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Samos, Greece
Gaia Iluka, From the olive grove to your table
About this harvest
From the island
that made everything.
Picked as the olives turn from green to purple.
Pressed within hours and below 27°C, on a single estate in Koumeika.
Koumeika, Samos · 500 ml
Gaia Iluka Original.
Extra virgin olive oil from a single estate in Koumeika, on Samos, pressed within hours of picking.
The same bottle that is on the table at Restaurant Iluka in Jeonju.
Discover OriginalThe joy of food
Less hype.
More flavour.
Olive oil does not have to be a morning shot or a number on a label. It is food: bread dipped into a small dish, ripe tomatoes with oil and salt, a simple plate finished with one good pour.
Cook with itOur first producer partner
Three generations in Koumeika.
Gaia Iluka begins with the Markou family, a family business like ours. On their estate in Koumeika, on Samos, they grow and press their own olives.
Today each harvest is timed for when flavour and aroma are at their peak, and the olives are pressed within hours of picking.
Gaia Iluka · Koumeika, Samos
Harvest2026 / 2027
is on its way.
Only this year’s oil. Nothing else.
Every harvest, Gaia Iluka bottles the new oil and retires the last.
From Chef Max
A chef's guests started asking about the oil.
Chef Max, founder of Iluka restaurant in Jeonju, began cooking with this oil in his kitchen. His guests noticed the difference and asked why it tasted so vivid.
It came from one place, one harvest, and one way of doing things.
Max · Iluka, Jeonju
Restaurant Iluka · Jeonju
From the kitchen of Iluka.
- The oil we serve.
- The oil we cook with.
- The oil you can bring home.
Restaurant Iluka has cooked in Jeonju since 2019. Gaia Iluka is on the table at bread service, in the aglio e olio, and in dessert.
Our culinary partners
The oil
Gaia Iluka Original Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Pressed in Koumeika, Samos, within hours of picking and below 27°C. One estate, one harvest, and nothing blended in from anywhere else. Bottled in dark glass with an opaque coating and a wooden cap, because light is what degrades olive oil.
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Start the new year with a good habit.
Good olive oil does not need to be saved for special occasions. Keep your first bottle close, and refill it when the oil runs low. A new way to bring the taste of Greece to the everyday table.
The taste
The taste of Samos.
Fresh green olives, a soft herbal aroma, a mild peppery finish.
Breathe it in before you taste it: green olives and something herbal, alive and specific. Then the oil moves the way a good wine does. A beginning, a middle, and a finish that stays with you.
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01Up front
Fruitiness
Green and grassy. Fresh green olives, and a soft herbal aroma that reaches you before the taste does.
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02Through the middle
Bitterness
A gentle bitterness through the centre. Balanced and smooth.
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03The finish
Pepper
A warm, mild pepper at the back of the throat, and it stays with you. That is the mark of a fresh extra virgin olive oil.
Olive oil quality
Beyond the number.
Acidity is not the whole story
Free acidity is one quality parameter. A lower figure does not, by itself, make a better oil, and an oil with a higher figure can be the better one.
Know where your oil comes from
Koumeika, Samos. Provenance you can check, not a phrase on a label.
Transparency over assumptions
Trust comes from testing and clear product information, not from the lowest number on a label.
Evidence you can understand
Laboratory results, certifications and registrations, listed and explained on our Quality page.
Good food · Your take
Creating food content?
Good food. Your take.
A small circle of creators bringing Gaia Iluka from Samos to tables in Korea. Cook with it, write about it, film it. The work is yours.
- Apply · Create · Earn
- A bottle of Original, on us
- Applications read by us, not by a system
Gaia Iluka Original · 500 ml
From Samos, to your table.
Extra virgin olive oil from a single estate in Koumeika, on the island of Samos.