Our Story.
Crete · Greece · India
"We believe that what you pour on your food is as important as what you eat. The right olive oil — pure, fresh and polyphenol-rich — is not a luxury. It is medicine, flavour and heritage in a single bottle."
— The Cretekos Story
Rooted in 4,000 Years of Olive Heritage
Crete is not just Greece's largest island — it is the world's most storied olive oil land. The Minoans traded Cretan olive oil across the ancient Mediterranean. The Romans prized it above all others. Today, Crete still produces olive oil of extraordinary quality, thanks to its unique microclimate, ancient varietals and generations of knowledge passed from grove to grove.
Our olives are the Koroneiki variety — small, intensely flavoured, extraordinarily rich in polyphenols. They grow on our single estate in the sun-drenched, limestone-rich hillsides of Chania, Crete's westernmost province, kissed by sea breezes off the Aegean and Libyan seas and ripened slowly under an unrelenting Mediterranean sun.
From a Greek Grove to an Indian Kitchen
Cretekos was born from a deeply personal conviction — that India deserves access to the world's finest olive oil, not the diluted, blended products that fill most store shelves.
Visiting the olive groves of Chania and tasting the extraordinary first-harvest oil straight from the press, we were struck by how completely different it was from anything we had encountered before. That experience became a mission: to bring genuinely authentic Cretan olive oil, with its staggering polyphenol count and uncompromised heritage, directly to Indian homes.
We work directly with a single family estate, maintaining full traceability from tree to bottle. Every bottle of Cretekos is a direct line from the grove to your kitchen — nothing added, nothing diluted, nothing compromised.
We Stood at the Press
It's easy to print "cold-pressed" on a label. We wanted to see it happen. So we walked the production line ourselves — the stainless steel presses, the cold-extraction rooms held below 27°C, the bottling hall — and asked every question we could think of.
Nothing about our process is outsourced trust. We watched the olives go in and the oil come out, met the people who run the mill, and only then decided this was the oil worth bringing home to India.
Our Values
Uncompromising Purity
Single-estate, single-variety, first-harvest. No blending, no additives, no compromise. What you taste is exactly what nature and the grove produced.
Evidence-Based Quality
Every batch is tested by accredited laboratories. We share the numbers openly — polyphenol count, acidity, oleocanthal — because quality that can't be measured can't be trusted.
Full Traceability
Every bottle carries a batch number. Scan it and trace your oil back to the specific grove, harvest date and cold-press session it came from. That is our promise of transparency.
Genuine Health Value
We exist because we believe food can be medicine. High-polyphenol olive oil has the science behind it. We're here to make that science accessible to every Indian household.
The World's Premier
Olive Oil Island
Years of Olive Cultivation
Crete's olive oil history predates ancient Greece. The Minoans cultivated and traded olive oil as far back as 2000 BCE, making Crete one of the oldest olive oil civilisations on earth.
Global Per-Capita Consumption
Cretans consume more olive oil per person than any other population in the world — an average of 20 litres per person annually, compared to a global average of less than 1 litre.
mg/Kg Polyphenols
Our EVOO was independently tested at 1,210 mg/Kg — a level rarely achieved outside of first-harvest Cretan oils. The global average is under 200 mg/Kg.
Protected Geographical Indication
Crete holds a Protected Designation of Origin for its extra virgin olive oil — a legal guarantee from the European Union that the oil is genuinely from Crete and meets strict quality standards.
From Grove to Your Kitchen
The Olives Are Picked
Our Koroneiki olives are harvested by hand at peak ripeness — earlier than conventional harvest, when polyphenol levels are at their highest and the oil has its characteristic green-gold colour and peppery finish.
Cold Pressed at the Mill
Within hours of picking, the olives are transported to our estate mill and cold-pressed below 27°C. This preserves the full spectrum of polyphenols, flavour compounds and vitamins that define truly exceptional EVOO.
Every Batch Certified
Each batch is sent to the World Olive Center for Health for independent polyphenol analysis. Only batches that meet our exacting standards are bottled under the Cretekos label.
Sealed to Preserve Quality
Our oil is filled into UV-protective dark glass bottles that prevent light-induced oxidation — the primary cause of polyphenol degradation in lesser-packaged olive oils.
Flown to India
We import Cretekos directly from Crete to India, bypassing the long distribution chains that age most imported olive oils before they reach your kitchen. First harvest purity, delivered fresh.
Taste What 4,000 Years
of Tradition Feels Like.
First Harvest Cretekos. Single-estate, cold-pressed, 1,210 mg/Kg polyphenols — delivered to your door across India.
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