Morgenster, Somerset West

Our olive tree nursery is maintained at the highest of standards, incorporating modern techniques to produce olive trees of the utmost quality. The nursery has a variety of trees, some good source for quality olive oil and others a virtual bouquet of superior tables olives.

Imagine having a Morgenster olive tree in your garden, and an inexhaustible supply of olives on your table.
Morgenster's liquid gold - their extra virgin olive oil - has, since 1999, been the recipient of the coveted L'Orciolo d'Oro prize in Italy - that's eight consecutive years. Morgenster's most recent award was being named the "Mill of the year (2007)", the highest accolade for olive oil producers. Our olive oil farm was also voted as the best olive oil in the entire Southern Hemisphere by Olive Business in Sydney Australia. Just before the close of 2006 when our extra virgin olive oil was selected as one of the top 15 olive oils in the world (out of 3000 tasted!) and won the award for the Best Blended Olive Oil in the world.

Morgenster olive farm thus features well in the L'Extravergine 2006 guide which lists its 450 oils selected from 26 countries around the globe. In the 2007 copy of this guide Morgenster was named as "Mill of the Year" - a coveted award indeed.
Morgenster's flagship wine, the Morgenster 2003 was launched in March 2007 while our second label, Lourens River Valley, has already been on the market for a couple of years. The sixth vintage of this label, the Morgenster Lourens River Valley 2003, was also released in March 2007.