Our Inspiration

The Greek land. Our source of inspiration. It is home to over 1700 endemic plants, with its main symbol the olive tree. It has been a symbol of culture for over 3000 years in the wider Mediterranean area. Until today, the economy and trade of the region relies heavily on this tree and its derivatives (olive oil, timber, etc.).

Olive trees are perennial and thus protected and treated accordingly. In order to continue to be productive, they must be pruned regularly. The resulting timber is almost impossible to process for industrial timber, and therefore mostly ends up as firewood. But when nature creates, the result is unique.

We created the Riza Zoe brand after we reconnected the fruit to the tree that produced it. We put the fruit into the wood that gave birth to it.