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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Many have noticed a shield prominently displayed on the bottle depicting a Greek warrior picking olives, all enclosed by a Greek frieze, and may have wondered why: I’ll explain right away. Reading Thucydides, a sentence struck me...
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Many have noticed a shield prominently displayed on the bottle depicting a Greek warrior picking olives, all enclosed by a Greek frieze, and may have wondered why: I’ll explain right away. Reading Thucydides, a sentence struck me...
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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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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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