Grocery store 51

At 51 Spartis Street, a few meters from municipal market of Kalamata, is located at Grocery store 51, a small shop selling local produce.

As a space it does not have something impressive to catch your eye at first. But back to the showroom with local products from small producers with their extra virgin olive oils, the famous Kalamata olives, jams, chutneys, pickles, honey, figs, pastelia, lalangia and local pasta, which are exhibited in the first room , hiding a real lab - with samples, notes-, a tasting area of ​​extra virgin olive oil with many scales of knowledge and experience around olives, olive growing and olive growing.

Creator of the George Vas. Koutelas born in Kalamata and from an early age he joined the family business, kernel oil, trade in olive oil, table olives and fats.

In 1994 he established his own business with trade and exports of olive oil, table olives and fats, in 1998 he took over the retail sales station maintained by the family since 1987 in the historic center of Kalamata.

In 2009 it was one of the 20 people who joined after examinations and started its operation Tasting team of TEI of Peloponnese where he offered his services voluntarily for 8 years, receiving knowledge and certification of olive oil and table olive taster.

The 2012 renovates the gas station of Kalamata and turns it into a traditional grocery store and renames it Grocery store 51.

In 2017, Trofopoleio 51 creates the first private space in Kalamata for tasting extra virgin olive oil and table olives with samples from around the world, accessible to all consumers.

George is one of its founders Kalamata Olive and Olive Oil School which aims to train producers, standardizers, in the proper cultivation, processing, and promotion of extra virgin olive oil, but also insists on consumer education:

«The most important thing is to educate the consumer on the right choice of extra virgin olive oil", He emphasizes to us. She is a consultant in olive mills and printing units, has represented many companies in exhibitions abroad and in Greece, and extra virgin olive oil blends which has created but also single variety extra virgin olive oils that he has chosen on behalf of companies have been awarded in international competitions in Greece and abroad.

It is worth visiting Grocery store 51, try the experience of a tasting and meet a very modest and serious connoisseur of olives.