2021 Olio di Penne (back in stock!) and the myth surrounding cooking with olive oil
We're busy preparing the land for this year's olive harvest that will start in a less than a week! It's been such a pleasure to see the...
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Olio di Penne - our olive oil
Olio di Penne is a high quality, organic, extra-virgin olive oil, pressed from olives grown at our farm in the Abruzzo region of Italy - nestled in the foothills of the Gran Sasso mountains.
Produced from Castiglionese olives, noted for their low acidity, they are ideal for pressing into a fruity, aromatic, spicy, and distinctly bitter oil, rich in polyphenols, vitamins and Omega 3. The olives are harvested in their prime, just as the fruit darkens, to produce an oil of exceptional quality.
This is an oil that bears little resemblance to what you will typically find in a supermarket.
The oil is “milled” with one cold mechanical extraction and without the application of any heat. Great care is taken to ensure that the olives are pressed immediately after harvesting to avoid oxidation and to retain the pure flavour of the castiglionese olives.
We keep production runs small, with only around 1000 litres available each year to help ensure the best quality olive oil. Because of this, our 1 litre tins of Olio di Penne sell out very quickly
We harvest our olives in late October, which are then brought back to the UK in time back to the UK for November.
Olio di Penne
The Farmers
Pete
"The first time I visited San Giorgio I fell in love with the place...I feel very privileged to have the opportunity to farm the land and produce such wonderful olive oil."
Steve
It's been 13 years since we started Olio di Penne; the harvest is back-breaking work, but utterly worth it when the end product is this good."
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