Extra Virginity author, Tom Mueller, has listed Joe and Son's Olive Press as a great place to buy good, fresh and authentic extra virgin olive oil.

Truth in Olive Oil

Great olive oils of the world

This list is work in progress, and will grow and evolve a great deal over the coming months and years, so check in again soon for updates.  What follows is my personal first cut at places to get great olive oil in America, and brands from various parts of the world to watch for.  For now my focus is on the US market, though this will also evolve with time.  (For more on how I’m compiling this resource, see here.)

NOTES:

• VF – olive oils at all of these locations are supplied by Veronica Foods, a pioneering importer run by Veronica and Mike Bradley, whose work is described in detail in my book Extra Virginity.  These stores sell a range of olive oils in stainless steel fusti, and encourage you to sample them before you buy.  Many store owners are olive oil experts, enthusiasts and apostles in their own right, and offer an ideal environment for learning about fine olive oil.
• Williams Sonoma, Dean & Deluca, Sur la Table – these stores offer a small but carefully-selected list of oils in bottles, mostly from Italy and Spain.  As with every chain, the quality of an oil at a given location depends not only on the oils they buy, but how they are displayed, how rapidly inventory turns over, etc.
• We Olive, Oil & Vinegar – two rapidly-growing franchises, the former in California, the latter nation-wide, both offering the taste before you buy model.  Prices seem a little high in the locations I’ve visited, and I’m not crazy about the translucent glass “amphorae” that Oil & Vinegar uses to store their oil, which aren’t good for oil storage (containers should block light, which together with heat and oxygen are the worst enemy of olive oil), but on my few visits to date I’ve had fairly good oil.

Florida
	Aventura	Sur la Table (5 additional locations)
	Boca Raton	Williams-Sonoma (21 additional locations)
	Cocoa Village	From Olives and Grapes	VF
	Fort Meyers	Fort Meyers Olive Oil Co.	(website coming) VF
	Ft. Lauderdale	Jean Pierre Cooking School	VF
	Jacksonville	Olive Oil Store	VF
	Lakewood Ranch	Katy Rose Olive Oil	VF
	Naples	Naples Olive Oil/Health Wize	VF
	Punta Gorda	Bella Balsamic	VF
	St. Petersburg	Kalamazoo Olive Co.	VF
	Tampa	Joe and Sons	VF
	Venice	Venice Olive Oil Co.	VF
	West Palm Beach	Oil & Vinegar	(opening summer 2012)
	Winter Park	The Ancient Olive	VF