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Here's another perspective on it, how often will you notice? If you don't then does it matter? A few years ago I purchased some olive oil while overseas from a

Here's another perspective on it, how often will you notice? If you don't then does it matter? A few years ago I purchased some olive oil while overseas from an outfit that was literally running a large machine pressing olives in front of me. Shocking, the oil actually smelled like olives vs the stuff in the bottle, which usually smells like nothing. That oil also had a sharp olive taste which is actually missing from the store purchased stuff as well. There is a bit of an olive oil industry starting in texas as well, and that stuff when purchased directly from a farm (orchard?) tastes like olives as well. Makes me wonder if 100% of the olive oil i've been purchasing in the last decade is fake, or per some of the articles strongly cut. BTW: Its not a function of the age either AFAIK, I purchased nearly a gallon when overseas and it lasted me over a year, all the while maintaining the distinctive smell and taste.

dragonwriter 10y ago
"Olive oil" by nature (without even getting into fakes) has a fairly wide expected gamut -- extra virgin, virgin, refined, and pomace oils (all of which but the last can be marketed as unqualified "olive oil", though in practice that generally mean either refined or a blend of mostly refined and some virgin.) A place that is doing something like artisanal premium extra virgin olive oil (which is what it sounds like you were getting) should have exactly the relation to generic "olive oil" that you describe, even if nothing involved is fake or adulterated in any way. Which is not to say a lot of what you are buying as generic "olive oil" might not be fake (there's plenty of independent reason to suspect that), but what you describing doesn't really indicate that.