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Where the Flavor of Basilicata's Olive Trees Is Transformed to Reach Your Table

The Olive Mill

The Beating Heart of Our Work

Our olive mill is the beating heart of our work.
This is where we select and process, with love and dedication, the precious fruits of our land — the olives — to bring our oil to every Italian table: a prized, 100% Italian product with a unique flavor.

Quality Details

Discovering the Olive Mill

The 5000kg millstone and crusher mill – This is the mill used by ancient master oil-makers, which uses millstones — stone wheels that crush the olives by mechanical pressure — for the crushing stage. The mill's new malaxers operate at controlled temperature and with reduced oxygen exposure.
The pitting machine – The modern pitting technique uses prior removal of the pit to process only the olive pulp. Once washed, the olives are fed into the pitting machine, which removes the pits and passes the pulp directly to the malaxer.
The quality of our extra virgin olive oil follows a safe, standardized processing procedure at every stage of the production chain, starting with the careful selection of the first harvest. For our oil, we choose only areas naturally suited to olive growing and the finest olive varieties of Basilicata — such as Ogliarola del Bradano, Maiatica di Ferrandina, and Coratina di Lavello — sourced from our collection centers in Montescaglioso, in the province of Matera.

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