Book an Olive Oil Tasting Experience

A promotional graphic for Merkad Olive, featuring their logo with olive branches, and indicating a farm tasting event in Colos, Portugal with details about tasting days, online booking, and the website merkadolive.eu. The right side shows olive oil in a glass bottle, with olives and olive leaves in the background.

  • Guided tour of our olive mill farm

  • Hands-on interaction with friendly farm animals

  • Explore gardens, orchard, olive groves.

  • Tasting of Olive oil products

  • Family-friendly, immersive nature experience

  • Discover sustainable living and food self-sufficiency in a real eco-farm

  • Reconnect with nature, slow down and leave inspired!

  • Book a picnic under the olive trees (additional cost per person)

Highlights

“Loved our tour of the Merkado Olive Retreat! We learned so much from Sue and her partner about their journey into starting their lives and farm there and how to get to their delicious organic olive oils from the trees to their own press. We got these two in the photo and will come back!!”
— Nienke Haarmans

How to book.

Step 1: Choose the experience that you would like whether it is an individual, couple or family experience.

Please note we also do group booking so if you are booking for a group, please get in touch directly with Sue on whatsapp (+44 7595278906) or email info@merkado-olive.com.

Step 2: Choose the date and time (please note we need 24 hours advance notice so if you would like to come at short notice, please call Sue directly on whatsapp (+447595278906)

Step 3: Add a basic or premium picnic if you would like to enjoy food on the olive farm under an olive tree.

If you have any other questions before booking please take a look at our FAQs page.‍ ‍

We look forward to meeting you.

  • "We stopped by and one of the owners, Sue, showed us around the farm. Really lovely place with old olive trees, chickens, a pressing facility, flower beds and a tasting room. I really liked the olive oil. We bought two bottles, an early harvest and a mid harvest. We also bought 11 eggs. Our daughter picked two of them right out of the chicken coop."."

    Alex

  • "Sue was a wonderful host. We really enjoyed our tour of the farm and the olive oil tasting.."

    Visitors from Canada!

  • "A very nice place, Haim and Sue are building and developing with their own hands. Wonderful, tasty, homemade olive oil!."

    Taly, Israel

  • "I must say that the Olive Oil produced by Haim and Su , was the best I ever tasted!!! I witnessed the production process, and it was fascinating to watch and impressive by how professional and pure it is ."

    Karen, Portugal

  • "Sue and Haim are making some truly excellent olive oil the old school way with love and care in the countryside of Portugal. Definitely stop by and taste their olive oil and experience what it is like to be one with the countryside"

    Hajir, New York

Your Questions, Answered

  • We suggest you wear comfortable clothing with walking shoes/boots to be able to go through the olive groves. Due to the hot Portuguese sun we recommend that you wear a hat, sunglasses and suncream to protect your skin. A water bottle to keep hydrated.

  • Families with young kids and older travelers frequently ask if the paths through the grove or the oil mill (lagar) can handle wheels. While we are improving the roads around the farm some areas maybe off bounds with a wheelchair or stroller. We will do our best to accommodate you so please mention at the time of booking any special requirements.

  • Well in Portugal during the summer months there is no rain! However, if you visit the farm earlier in the year there might well be a down pour, most of the tour can be done inside. If the Olive Grove walk is not possible, we will provide you with something else to make up for it.

  • We are in the process of being a compost toilet and there is a toilet in our converted truck. However, we encourage people to water the trees and ground whereever possible! There is plenty of shaded areas around the farm.

  • Yes we welcome you to bring your own food for a picnic on the site and ask you to kindly clear up after yourself so the land remains clean. Regarding drinks we would prefer you not to bring alcoholic drinks on to the land, but please bring water bottles and any soft drinks.