IN BRIEF
Within few hours after fruit harvesting, not yet reaching its complete ripening, it takes place olive crushing in our factory mill, working exclusively on our olives. This allows us to obtain an oil with intense green colour and piquant flavours. Whole production process consistently occurs below 27°C, that is maximum temperature allowed for "cold extraction", enhancing the taste and peculiarities of every olive being crushed at the most. From here it comes our little mannerism of willing to mark this fine processing by naming our oil "Ventisettegradi".
OLIVE CRUSHING
The true first olive transformation occurs with crushing, after olive's been stripped of leaves, pruned and washed. With olive crushing we obtain an oily paste, being processed afterwards.
MALAXING
Malaxing procedure (gramolatura, in italian), takes its name from the tool being used: the gramola, that could be expressed in english with the expression "kneading machine", or more simply "kneader". It is a tank in which some blades constantly rotate, allowing a slow and continuous mingling of olives' paste. It is a fundamental and awkward step that helps the conglomeration of oil micro-particle, permitting the following extraction. This process takes place at controlled temperature, always below 27°C. Malaxing time depends on the variety of used olives and therefore on the type of paste obtained from crushing. This process conditions the taste and the polyphenols quantity, and that's why it is carefully attended to.
EXTRACTION
The last step of production process is extraction. By means of a centrifugal extractor, commonly called "decanter", it takes place the properly so called separation of oil from the solid part, called "pomace", and from vegetation water. The obtained oil is immediately filtered, removing this way all the impurities that would lead to an early decay. Oil is stored into steel barrels within an air-conditioned room at a constant temperature of 16°C. This permits to protect at length oil's sensory features, its strong scent and its piquant taste.
