Filip Jovović from Bar produces olive liqueur

Anyone who has visited the Podgorica Delta City in the past two days knows that olives can also be used to make liqueur. And an excellent one at that!

Modern devices that squeeze oil work on the principle of a centrifuge, which separates the fruit from the stone

One of the exhibitors at the Olive Days in this shopping center was Filip Jovović from Gretva next to Stari Bar, who, in addition to olives and quality oil, also produces souvenirs from the wood of this noble plant, as well as sweet-bitter liquor.

As he says, Jovović has been in this business for a long time and has around 70 olive roots in his garden. They are of the yellowberry variety, which, as he says, is autochthonous, very generous and best adapted to marsh soil.

Filip, as a member of the association of olive growers of Bar, had the opportunity to see how his colleagues in Croatia, Turkey, and Greece do this work

From Jovović's olive trees, which are 300 to a thousand years old, the fruit reaches the machines before it falls to the ground and oxidizes, as this is the recommendation of experts in this field, in order to obtain better quality oil.

Modern devices in which oil is pressed work on the principle of a centrifuge, which separates the fruit from the stone, in order to further squeeze the oil. One such machine costs about twenty thousand euros, and it works at a temperature of about 12 degrees, which means that the oil is obtained through a cold pressing process.

At Jovović's stand, you could also see a model of an old mill, where a large stone turned and pressed the olive fruit, so that in the second part the oil was pressed under the press. However, today's technology allows for a better product, so Jovović makes ordinary, virgin and extra virgin oil.

Filip, as a member of the association of olive growers of Bar, had the opportunity to see how his colleagues in Croatia, Turkey, and Greece do this work. As he says, you can learn something from everyone, but he thinks that the quality of domestic oils does not lag behind those of world producers.