Another delicate step is milling. My goal, at this stage, is to obtain healthy fruit, because molds easily develop in damaged fruit, whose flavor inevitably passes into the extra virgin olive oil. Preservation is also very important, again due to...
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The varieties found in my olive grove are those imposed by the DOP, whose selection responds to an organizational rationale: to produce an extra virgin olive oil with a more or less uniform flavor; these are the cultivars called «Frantoiane...
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What does DOP mean? Controlled Designation of Origin. With this term, the State wanted to introduce a brand to protect consumers from food fraud, guaranteeing the genuineness of a product. The quality of an oil depends on many factors...
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Hand picking: picking is a very delicate operation, because it represents the moment in which the fruit of a year’s work is gathered and it doesn’t take much to ruin everything! To greatly reduce time and costs, many producers today...
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Have you ever wondered why we prune? Well, pruning is an artifice created by man for his own advantage! If the plant were left free, it would send out other suckers at the base and grow like a bush, according to a type of growth that is defined...
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In the olive grove, among the various cultivars present , I found about eighty plants, of the variety that the old farmers call “Romanelle”. The Romanelle were introduced into Italy by the Phocaeans, Greek colonists who...
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Extra virgin olive oil is the only condiment that is extracted by simply squeezing a fruit! All other oils (seed oils, all seeds, non-extra virgin oil, pomace oil, etc.) are extracted chemically: the seeds are ground and a flour is obtained, from...
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The rediscovery of ancient agronomic techniques Those in the know understand that plowing an olive grove is nearly impossible: olive trees have very shallow roots, and a plow would inevitably damage them. In the past, there were oxen or draft...
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