Temecula Olive Oil Company

We love setting the table in this beautiful olive grove in Southern California with our farmer friends Catherine and Thom — and this is the first time we’ll get to see the grove in the winter! When we visited back in August, the olives were ripening and nearly ready to pick. Now, those same olives have been pressed and the oil is bottled and ready to taste at the table while we dine beneath their branches. Catherine and Thom make some of the spiciest and most scrumptious olive oil around and guest chef Travis Skiward of Callie Restaurant in San Diego knows just what to do with it. His menus feature diverse flavors from across the Mediterranean coast, plus lots of local fish and produce of course. In winter, that might mean radicchio, citrus fruits, persimmons and other glorious things that grow nearby.