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Article: Meet the Welsh couple who have really struck oil... olive oil, that is; Search for a healthier lifestyle leads to successful business for Jones family.
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2009
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Byline: Steffan Rhys
IT'S a food as quintessentially Mediterranean as cawl is to Wales.
Cultivated in sun-drenched groves and occasionally still pressed by hand, olive oil has encapsulated the taste and lifestyle of southern Europe for more than 5,000 years.
But in the midst of major producers and family cooperatives, a hand-cultivated olive oil with a distinctly Welsh feel is now making its mark in Catalonia.
Gwyn and Jacqueline Jones, from Pencoed, near Bridgend, tend around 1,500 olive trees, some of which are 800 years old, in the ...