The baal Project
PREMIUM LEBANESE EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL
& OLIVE OIL SOAP
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The Spout + BAAL Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Sale Price:$39.00 Original Price:$40.00
The Spout + 1 bottle of BAAL Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Cork & Brushed Gold Aluminum Weighted Spout
The Spout ships with a bottle of our BAAL Extra Virgin Olive Oil
You asked for it and we heard you! The Spout fits perfectly inside our BAAL Extra Virgin Olive Oil bottle to allow for a smooth slow pour ensuring not a drop of delicious BAAL Extra Virgin Olive Oil goes to waste!
It is a beautiful brushed gold spout with a cork stopper that fits snugly inside the bottle. The Spout has a weighted lid that self-closes when the bottle is upright to protect the oil, but automatically opens when you tilt the bottle.
It looks beautiful inside your BAAL bottle sitting on your counter!
Spout Size: 1" D x 4.5" L
Bottle Size: 19.5cm x 8.5cm x 8.5cm.
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Gifting? Indicate this at Checkout and add a short note to the recipient which we will handwrite for you!
Quantity:
Only 132 left in stock
BAAL Extra Virgin Olive Oil
$35.00
100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
BAAL Extra Virgin Olive Oil is single-source origin exclusively from our ancestral family groves that is cold-pressed within hours after harvest. We hand-pick the native Souri and Baladi olives young, yielding a greener oil, longer shelf life, and higher concentration of polyphenols. It is unrefined and unfiltered, which gives it its beautiful cloudy texture and comes in a 500mL bottle—each bottle is individually hand numbered and hand-dipped in wax to preserve its freshness. This Harvest is a limited edition of 800 total bottles.
Tasting Notes: Silky smooth start, with a subtle spicy rocket & citrus, peppery finish.
Uses: Use in a crisp tabbouleh salad, drizzle on top of homemade labneh or a charcoal-grilled Barbounia, or use to make an olive oil cake or olive oil gelato.
Bottle size is 19.5cm x 8.5cm x 8.5cm (500ml)
Harvested: 10/2023
Bottled: 03/2024
Handpicked. Unfiltered. Rainfed.
**FREE U.S. SHI3PPING
Gifting? Indicate this at Checkout and add a short note to the recipient which we will handwrite for you!
Made with ♡ in Lebanon.
Quantity:
Only 102 left in stock
Gus & Noura of The BAAL Project
About BAAL
At BAAL, we specialize in the production of small-batch Lebanese Extra Virgin Olive Oil & Olive Oil Soap born out of our family groves in the Northern Lebanese mountains dating back to 1845. BAAL was founded by us, Noura & Gus, 6th generation Lebanese olive oil producers (yes, that means our great, great, great grandparents were olive oil producers!) originally from the Koura and Zgharta regions of Lebanon.
Starting THE BAAL PROJECT was something that had been on our minds for many years but had always been put on the backburner with our hectic lives in New York City. After the devastating August 4th Beirut explosion and economic collapse that took place in Lebanon in 2020, we decided that it was time to do our part to try to give back to Lebanon and protect this sacred family tradition.
We officially launched THE BAAL PROJECT in early 2021 with the goals of: preserving Lebanon’s historic Olive Oil production heritage and supporting traditional sustainable farming practices, helping to create a viable livelihood for Lebanese individuals, preventing further urbanization and deforestation in Lebanon, and of course, to put Lebanese olive oil on the map as a delicious, premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
At BAAL we’re fortunate to bring together almost 200 years of family tradition with the benefits of modern knowledge and technology to create a superb Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Olive Oil Soap. You can read more about our journey here; thank you for your support!
- Noura & Gus
“When you buy from us, you’re buying directly from the farmers themselves. There are no middlemen. These are our family olive groves — we don’t sell olive oil from third-party groves. We nurture & harvest our groves. We even package & ship each order ourselves!
You cannot get more farm to table than this — most other olive oil companies can’t say the same thing.”
HOW OUR OLIVE OIL IS MADE
Click here to learn how BAAL Extra Virgin Olive Oil is made.
Lebanese Olive Oil?
Don’t sound so surprised.
We bet you didn’t know that the area known as present-day Lebanon is where the olive tree originated from! Or that only later was the olive tree spread around the Mediterranean from Lebanon by the PhoEnicians?!
So yes — Lebanese olive oil — it’s the O.G.
Read more ABOUT THE HISTORY OF LEBANESE OLIVE OIL here
GIFTING?
Looking for a gift for that special someone? BAAL makes the perfect gift! We’ll include a handwritten note from you & a card which explains the motivations and mission behind The BAAL Project with your gift.
To find out more, click here.
Why ‘BAAL’? THE HISTORY BEHIND OUR NAME
A stele of BAAL inside the Galerie d’Angoulême of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France (Source: https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/treasures-of-the-eastern-mediterranean)
The name BAAL is an ode to Lebanon’s Phoenician history. In ancient folklore, BAAL was a mighty and mystical god revered throughout the Levant as the Lord of Rain and Dew AND A PROTECTOR OF THE CROPS.
FUN FACT! In Lebanon, the older generation can often be heard saying “El aard baal” or “الارض بعل“. This expression means that the land IS FERTILE AND DOES NOT NEED WATERING. And yes, this expression is a reference to BAAL himself!
READ MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF BAAL HERE
GIVING BACK
One of our key goals in creating THE BAAL PROJECT was to give back to the most vulnerable in the Lebanese community.
THE BAAL PROJECT donates a portion of the sales of each harvest to select Lebanese chartities.
To find out more and see which charities we have donated to, click here.
A video of some of THE BAAL PROJECT’s family olive groves in the Koura Region of North Lebanon.
Recipes
Lebanese ‘Zoubah’ Wild Oregano & Thyme Salad
Gus walking through our olive groves in the North of Lebanon on a crisp winter morning.
“At THE BAAL PROJECT it is our mission to preserve and revitalize Lebanon’s disappearing olive oil production heritage, to ensure our family’s olive groves remain fruitful—preventing further urbanization and deforestation of the Lebanese landscape, to create a sustainable livelihood in Lebanon for the individuals involved in our olive oil production, and of course, to put Lebanese olive oil on the global map by producing the most delicious, premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
With each bottle of premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil or each bar of Olive Oil Soap that you purchase, you are helping us achieve this dream.”
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