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AKRA RIZA Makes Its International Debut at SIAL Paris 2026
A new producer-led olive oil venture from Greece’s Malea Peninsula enters the international market, built around Athinolia, traceability, terroir and measurable quality.
AKRA RIZA was not created around a bottle. It was built from the inside out — from the land, the fruit, the harvest, the data and, above all, the people who cultivate it.
Rooted in the Malea Peninsula of Southeastern Laconia, Greece, AKRA RIZA is a new producer-led venture bringing together 41 growers from 30 families and approximately 30,000 olive trees around a shared ambition: to transform exceptional local production into products of distinctive origin, measurable quality and lasting international value.
At the heart of our work is Athinolia, alongside Koroneiki — varieties shaped by a rugged peninsula of wind, stone, sea and distinct micro-terroirs. We select rather than simply aggregate; harvest with purpose rather than chase volume; trace every batch; and document quality through physicochemical, sensory and phenolic analysis. Because for us, provenance should be demonstrated, not decorated — and quality should be measured, not claimed.
Our first chapter is extra virgin olive oil, beginning with The First Drop — First Harvest 2026, a limited early-harvest Athinolia expression conceived to capture a specific place, season and moment in time. But AKRA RIZA is being built for something larger: a long-term platform connecting growers, terroir and international markets, while keeping more of the value created by the land close to the people who cultivate it.
We are not interested in looking polished before the substance is there. We would rather refine the bottle around an exceptional product than design an exceptional bottle around an ordinary one. Our ambition is to grow with discipline, transparency and the right partners — allowing substance to lead and identity to follow naturally from it.
At SIAL Paris 2026, we are not simply introducing another Greek olive oil brand. We are inviting the market to discover the beginning of one.
AKRA RIZA — Rooted at the Edge.