Oil

In the countryside of Ostuni we produce two types of oil, the "Meridiano" and the
"Olio delle Pendici" literally oil of the slopes.
Both types are organic extra virgin olive oil, produced from a single type of olive tree (monocultivation).
We decided to produce our oil employing organic cultivation and selecting the olives 100% from the Ogliarola Salentina olive species, which known also as "Marine Olive", is a type of olive tree that grows only in this part of the world!
In this way we have been able to obtain two types of oil, consistent, intensely fragrant, fruity and rich in flavour because the olives are picked just at the right point of ripeness, yielding a well-balanced, smooth and round tasting oil. So we succeded in getting two kinds of sweet oil, dense, intensely fragrant it gets a promotion because rich ofpicked at the right point of ripeness, well balanced oils, soft and round.

-Our "Olio delle pendici"
Oil of the slopes is particularly sweet and delicately fragrant, therefore suitable for the most delicate palates, such as that of children.

- "Meridiano" is an extra virgin olive oil, intensely flavoured, but without any bitter or spicy aftertaste, appropriate for the most demanding palates, because this oil exalts the flavours of vegetables, cooked or raw, and fish. It doesn't cover the flavours of the food but enhances them.

And all this oil is a blessed gift of our secular, age-old olive trees, magnificent and gnarled, which are cultivated here in this countryside. We are convinced that by choosing to continue growing and caring for these ancient trees we have made the right choice. These centenarian patriarchs, time and again surprise us with the quality of the fruit they yield. They are lovely trees, adapt for this soil and climate: they are resistant against long periods of drought and can survive even on stony ground. Year after year they struggle on and yield their fruit.
The austere strength of these trees in harmony with the organic agricultural methods applied, and together with the modern systems of harvesting and processing have given the following results:
the "Olio delle pendici" and "Meridiano" are whole, fragrant, and inviting because they are organically produced and obtained after a short, rapid process, crushing the olives immediately after the olive picking from the trees as soon as the fruit is ripe.