St. Helena Olive Oil

Business is closed — Checked this place out today– the store is empty and site is for lease.

Cute little store selling gourmet stuff
Wow, so many different kinds of olive oil. But no, i am not an olive oil connoisseur, I was just there to look for truffle-​flavored products. So I found white truffle oil and white truffle salt. I sampled both of them and they were both really good, with very strong truffle flavors. I ended up taking the white truffle salt home. Put it on steaks, sunny side up eggs, or even tofu! Delicious!

Cute shop. Friendly owner.
THE ROASTED GARLIC SALT IS THE BEST THING I’VE EVER TASTED.
Came in for a small bottle of olive oil so we could make snacks after wine tasting. They sell the perfect sized travel bottle, and it’s made locally.
But, really, get that garlic salt. I’m obsessed with it and I’ve only owned it for two days.

St. Helena Olive Oil has an amazing array of flavors. They have truffled oil, various kinds of jam&jelly, pasta sauce, you name it. They even carry cookbooks. It has a very homey feel. To go to the back of the store, you enter a passageway filled with lavender. They have friendly service. It’s pricey, but it’s worth it.

I love walking in here and trying all the great olive oils.

Strolling around St Helena, we’d already lucked into Olivier & some great mustards, so thought we’d make a detour into St Helena Olive Oil to see what was what
They offered a bunch of various olive oils, vinegars, spices, sauces & the like
We found the butternut squash pasta sauce to be more of a red pepper sauce w/​the squash taking a backseat — so we passed on this
Also learned their truffle-​oils came from Italy & were not local. Prices were a bit more than what we were willing to pay but this was a nice look-​see into more gourmet delights
And the fact they were offering all their local products at a 20% discount this day, was an added bonus
We’d totally come back to check out their honeys but due to lack of trunk space, we had to resist this visit… but watch out next time!

Thank you again Nelson Q. for another fine recommendation!
I went nuts in here & bought olive oils, seasonings, butternut squash pasta sauce, & balsamic vinegar. The best part is they have samples for just about everything, so you’re not buying blindly. I swear, I could’ve spent hours in the store… so many samples! I liked the fact that they offered small bottles of olive oil too.
They were offering free shipping for purchases over $ 100. I was thrilled to hear that, until I found out that it doesn’t apply to Hawaii. :(Had to try & figure out how I was going to fit all those bottles in my suitcase, but they were so nice & offered to wrap my items for travel, which made it much easier for me
Prior to our trip, I was really looking forward to doing an olive oil tasting in Napa Valley. Never happened, but this place was good enough for me!

Very nice olive oil, balsamic vinegar, etc. in an attractive store, with helpful staff. Makes a nice break from wine-​tasting.

Honey: They have this fantastic selection of flavored honey. All I can tell you is that my tea tastes so much better with a bit of citrus honey.
Oil: They have habanero and jalapeño olive oils. Da bomb. I have not seen those at other olive oil shops.
They also have a great collection of salts, however, I did not see any truffle salt nor fleur de sel.

This place is my bf’s go-​to spot when in Napa. He’s in love with the Butternut Squash pasta sauce and the various olive oils offered at St. Helena Olive Oil.
I love coming here because it’s like Costco where you can sample all that this little store has to offer! In addition to Olive Oil, it also specializes in Pasta Sauce, Salts, Truffle Oil, Balsamic, and Vinaigrettes. There are spoons and breads for you to taste-​test everything before committing to buying anything. Everything is so delicate and flavorful, you will be in heaven! Some of my favorites are: Garlic Olive Oil, Basil Olive Oil, Jalapeño Olive Oil, Truffle Oil, and Truffle Salt! It goes great with bread, and probably with salads as well. I would definitely recommend people to stop by this gem when in Napa! :)

I spent a wonderful hour or so at this shop on a Saturday in Napa. There are probably at least 100 different things you can try. Olive oils, vinegars, fancy salts (too fancy for me, I can’t imagine trying different types of salt), jams, honeys, etc. All amazing, all delicious, all local. Some coming with a cool story. For example, they have a super fancy olive oil that they actually take an olive press to the olive trees and press the olives right there! In nature! The way it should be done.
I left with a bottle of red wine vinegar, an adorable jar with italian spices and a sampler duo of olive oil and balsamic for a friend of mine. (She was SO excited, she loves olive oil)
I also sampled and fell in love with the butternut squash pasta sauce but am waiting to order that off the internets. SO good.

DELICIOUS oil! and, delicious jams! Also, great souvenirs.

Neat little place. Obviously they have olive oil but they also offered dry spice rubs/​mixes, vinegars, mustards and my purchase; dirty martini olive juice. It was $ 14 total which I thought was decent considering one martini would cost that and this is the real deal. I have bought mixers before for this and the «olive juice» is never very real tasting. Cute specialty shop if you are cruising around after visiting Napa Valley.

What a lovely place. First thing that caught my eye was the huge vault towards the back of the room. We were told that the building used to be a bank, love it! Through the vault door were a couple of honey tastings that were «okay.» Although it wasn’t ready yet, the very back back of the vault was being constructed into a room for private tastings. It should be opening the beginning of Sept. And yes, I know it’s an olive oil company but they only had 2 balsamic vinegars! The aged one was very good but priced a bit high for the short aging period. Try the BBQ sauce also! Cute place to pop in while visiting St.Helena.

If you are looking for some interesting, out of the ordinary olive oils, this is the place for you! They had a great selection of different vintages but also a great selection of infused oils. They also had some mustards and balsamic vinegars as well as flavored honeys and preserves. My favorite was the habanero olive oil (yep!). The people were very nice and it was all help-​yourself type of sampling, which was nice. This would be a great place to pick up a gift, to add something to a gift basket or the like.

This is my kinda place. Read this short note from the owner and you will probably need a kleenex, so I will pause to allow you to shed a few tears, then gather yourself.
Are you back? Sniffling from the story I presume. Ok, good. on to the review.
I am such a sucker for locally owned businesses and as you likely already know, I am all about cooking. This place has so many incredible finds that it took us about 20 minutes to travel from the front door to the back room, tasting wonderful ingredients and condiments along the way. Their locally pressed olive oils are pure and vibrant green colors, a true sign of the quality. The flavor profile is gonna take some getting used to for those of you unfamiliar with truly fresh high quality olive oil.
They have these amazing and truly fresh sea salts. We picked the most fragrant and unique option of the bunch. Alderwood smoked sea salt. I gave it a taste and was just blown away. I envisioned adding this to sauces and guacamole and seasoning meats with and just had to have some for my arsenal. HAD TO!
We made our way to the secret room in the back. Ok, it’s not a secret room, but it should be because within those walls you will find the freshest, most amazing flavored honey you have EVER tasted. Citrus Honey, Range Wildflower Honey (my personal favorite) Wild Blackberry Honey. Truly incredible flavors and sadly, I wasn’t willing to buy them b/​c we rarely use honey. But, if you are a connoisseur of fine, high quality honey, this is the place for you.
It’s a little on the pricey side, but when you find great quality, you gotta fork over a few more dollars to enjoy it.
Thank you Peggy, for taking a chance, for following your dream and for providing such amazing options for foodies like myself.

Forget the olive oil — though it is really good — and go for the samples of the truffled honey, blueberry jam, and butternut squash pasta sauce.
A lovely staff, a charming store, and a great place to kill some time before dinner at Meadowood.

Napa Valley offers a wide range of olive oils and yummy tastings but when I tasted Balsamic Vinegar from here I just had to get a bottle even if it was a little on the pricey side.
I cannot wait to cook and dip bread in this vinegar at home, it is SO yummy!

Oh, this place was to die for.
We took our friend here for her bachelorette weekend. The lady working there patiently and happily explained to us the different qualities of olive oil and took us through a tasting of many different olive oils to show us what she meant! Then she let us explore the rest of the shop where there were lots of other fun things to taste (more oils, vinegars, honeys).
I left with the balsamic vinegar di modena methode tradizionale which was rich, thick, syrupy – basically tasted like balsamic candy (in the best way possible).
I know you might feel like you shouldn’t waste valuable wine-​tasting time while you’re in Napa, but trust me. This place is worth a trip!

This is the second branch of St. Helena Olive Oil company, a wonderful specialty foods distributor in the Napa Valley. Their main store, which houses their production facility, is located in Rutherford.
Although I’ve been coming to the Napa Valley since I was a little kid, I only recently discovered the St. Helena Olive Oil Co. The store is full of all kinds of gastronomic goodies: olive oils, vinegars, salts, dips, sauces, and spices. In addition, they have a back room stocked with lavender products such as room mist, soap, and extract.
One of the best parts of the St. Helena Olive Oil Co. is that they allow you to sample every product. With products like truffle oil or premium vinegars, it’s difficult to pay $ 30 + for something you’ve never tried. Pieces of bread accompany little dishes of olive oil, barbecue sauce, or vinegar.
However, if you’ve ever worked in the food/​grocery industry, you’ve learned to be weary of samples. You wouldn’t believe WHAT people do with free food… they stick their fingers in, touch everything, sniff the communal bowl, and they make every employee vow to never take samples again. Nevertheless, I sampled almost every product at St. Helena Olive Oil. This is a testament to how wonderfully their sample system is organized. I never felt like the samples were unsanitary, muddied, or old, no matter what the truth may be.
Almost everything I tried was wonderful, but we wound up leaving with the Balsamic Vinegar di Modena (methode traditionale), truffle oil, and truffle salt. Anyone who likes artisanal or boutique culinary products should definitely check out St. Helena Olive Oil Co.