An olive oil that knows its numbers. Rich in polyphenols, light on compromise.
Ancient trees above Rossano — some bearing fruit since the 12th century.
Olive by olive, in the morning.
Cold-pressed, unfiltered. You can taste it.
Old olive trees above Rossano in Calabria: the Dolce di Rossano — some of these trees have borne fruit since the 12th century — and the later-planted Coratina.
We blend nothing in. What the groves around Rossano yield in a vintage is cold-pressed and bottled single-variety — exceptionally rich in polyphenols, independently lab-confirmed. One place, two varieties, one vintage.
What we were looking for was an oil for our daughter. We sell nothing we would not give her.
A year later, little of that remains.
The difference has a name: polyphenols. These natural compounds give fresh oil its flavour, its light peppery catch in the throat — and its value. They are why a young oil tastes alive and an old one tastes of nothing. TERRA DI GAIA is pressed once a year, bottled immediately, never blended.
Meet the two characters ↓
By hand, olive by olive. No machine shakes the trees, nothing lies on the ground — what goes to the mill was carried there.
What hung on the tree in the morning runs from the mill as oil by midday. Four hours — you can taste it. Freshness is the true luxury.
Nobile and Intenso — one vintage between them. Impossible to reproduce.
Taste this freshness ↓
Ordinary olive oil sits at around 50 mg/kg of polyphenols. Ours at 344 and 697 — confirmed by an accredited laboratory using the COI method.
The report was never meant as marketing: one of the two of us only believes what has been measured. That is why every vintage carries its own profile — with all laboratory values.
Values as factual product information. Polyphenols are heat-sensitive — best enjoyed raw.
Picked in October, bottled at the end of November. Whoever has signed up hears first and orders first.
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