Our Extra Virgin Olive Oil

A process that begins in the fields and ends in the mill

SELECTED OLIVES, SKILLFULLY BLENDED

How It’s Made

The extra virgin olive oil Colle della Tombola is crafted by blending olives from various cultivars. The expertise in the combination of these cultivars creates a blend that highlights the unique characteristics of a south-facing land, rich in wild aromatic plants, blessed with a mild, breezy climate.

Its main cultivars are Frantoio and Leccino, along with Coratina, Leccio del Corno, Maurino, Grignano, and Cipressino. The cold-pressing treatment of the olive blend produces a distinctive oil with qualities that reflect the land of its origin. Its organoleptic features bring out fragrant aromas, a bitter aftertaste, and a slight pungency due to its high polyphenol content.

The quality of Colle della Tombola oil is not only the result of a meticulous olive cultivation but also of a careful harvesting and a rapid transfer to the mill. This ensures mechanical pressing at low temperatures, yielding an oil with a very low acidity.

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A CENTURIES-OLD TREE THAT SURVIVED FROSTS AND WAR

The Witness

In the area known locally as Borgo Bellussi, just downhill from Cascina Sant’Antonio, stands a centuries-old olive tree of the Leccino variety. This tree has survived the severe frosts of the 19th century, especially a freeze in 1985, when temperatures in the province of Treviso plunged to -20°C for nine days.

Thanks to the favorable microclimate and the fortune to escape the bombings of the Great War – when Italian forces targeted Austro-Hungarian lines entrenched on Colle della Tombola Hill – the olive tree has become a silent witness to history. Where bombs did not reach, poverty did, as many struggled to gather firewood to warm themselves or to cook corn polenta with some vegetables in order to survive during the famine years.

Around this ancient olive tree, new plants have been cultivated. Today, they yield a plentiful harvest, thriving in a location sheltered from the strong and cold Bora winds that blow from Friuli.