Extra Virgin
Olive Oil
The
farm San Leonardo is partly planted with olive
trees. We grow them with great care. After the heavy damages
caused by the severe winter of 1985, we have been able -
over the years - to restore our olive groves (approximately
13 hectares) to their former productivity.
We
plow the olive groves three times per year. We follow the
practice of "sovescio", a practice that enriches the soil
by burying the leaves and stems of beans sowed earlier in
the year.
Such
treatment ensures that our olive groves - since many years
now - do not need any chemical fertilizer nor weed-killer.
The
olive harvest is done by hand, picking the olives directly
from the trees: the harvesting season generally lasts from
early November to late December.
Once
the olives have been harvested they are immediately taken
to the oil-mill so as to ensure an outstanding extra virgin
olive-oil quality.
The
oil-mill which we have chosen adopts the traditional "a
freddo" cold pressing system. The whole process thus ensures
an extra-virgin olive-oil which is used for preparing
the well-known savory Tuscan cooking recipes.
The
Acidity of this olive oil is 0,18 %
We
sell our olive-oil in food-specific cartons or glass-bottles
of 0,75 or 0,50 or 0,25lt (24,75 or 16,9 or 8,45 FL.OZ.)