Greece · Amfissa and Fthiotida, central Greece Dual-purpose Intensity not published

Konservolia

also called Amfissis, Agriniou, Artas, Voliotiki, Chondrolia

Grown almost entirely as a table olive, yet its oil carries the highest mean oleic acid of the four widely planted Greek cultivars measured side by side. The fruit’s commercial role and its oil chemistry point in opposite directions.

Dual-purposeprimary use of the fruit

Not publishedtypical polyphenol band

Fills when the library holds an oilcomputed, not authored

Olive grove in Amfissa and Fthiotida, central Greece — a generated illustration, not a photograph of a specific grove

Reference card

Also called	Amfissis, Agriniou, Artas, Voliotiki, Chondrolia
Main regions	Amfissa, Agrinio, Arta, Lamia, Pelion
Purpose	Dual-purpose — predominantly table olives
Oleic acid	~75.4%
Harvest	November–December, hand-harvested
Designations	Konservolia Amfissis PDO; Konservolia Stylidas PDO (both 1996)
Polyphenols	Not published

Shelf stability is the published Rancimat induction time where one exists. It is measured per variety; smoke point is not, so it is not listed.

In the grove

Grove — placeholder

Fruit at harvest — placeholder

Aroma and flavour descriptors

1Crunchy, fruity (table olive)

The PDO descriptions cover the cured table olive. No sensory descriptors for Konservolia oil are published.

Ordered by how often each recurs in the published varietal literature, not by measured intensity. Our panel has not scored a monovarietal Konservolia oil, and no sensory panel data for it is published. 40 of the 40 varieties here read the same way.

Oils in the library No Konservolia oils reviewed yet

This shelf fills when the panel scores an oil made from this variety. 19 of the 40 varieties here are in the same state today.

Konservolia against the other Greece varieties

Open in compare

Variety	Origin region	Used for	Polyphenols	Shelf stability
Koroneiki	Koroni, Messinia, Peloponnese	Oil	Around the Greek mean; Cretan surveys 138–441 mg/kg	Not published
Kalamon	Messinia, southern Peloponnese	Dual-purpose	Not published	Not published
Manaki	Central Greece and the northeastern Peloponnese	Dual-purpose	Not published	Not published
Tsounati	Western Crete and the southern Peloponnese	Dual-purpose	173–641 mg/kg	Not published
Megaritiki	Megara, Attica	Dual-purpose	Not published	Not published
Konservolia	Amfissa and Fthiotida, central Greece	Dual-purpose	Not published	Not published
Chalkidiki	Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia	Dual-purpose	290–606 mg/kg	Up to 36 h Rancimat in early-harvest oil

Sources

Every figure on this page carries a source. Where we could not find one we say so rather than estimating. Corrections are welcome and credited.

Map · Amfissa and Fthiotida

Amfissa, central Greece · 38.5° N, 22.4° E