The Az. Agr. Podere Ricavo is located in the hills of Cetona (Siena – Tuscany) at 350 mt. above sea level, taking care in every detail of the cultivation of olive trees, without using any type of fungicide or pesticide, which have allowed to obtain the mark of “Organic”. In the company are grown Cultivar Moraiolo, Frantoio, Correggiolo, Leccino and Minuta di Chiusi. The harvest begins in the second decade of October with the processing of the olives within 12 hours with a continuous cycle plant with processing temperatures below 27 degrees. This process allows the Extra Virgin Olive Oil to maintain the strong organoleptic characteristics unchanged over time. The Company bottles four product lines, all Organic, the Olive Oil DOP Terre di Siena, the Evo Olive Oil, the Monocultivar Minuta di Chiusi “Sacrapone” and the Unfiltered Extra Virgin Olive Oil “Novello”, available in various sizes in latin/bottle.
Italian olive growing, with its immense heritage of olive trees, farmers and olive-pressers that populate the peninsula right down to the southernmost islands, is experiencing a moment of extreme difficulty. The crisis is linked to the process of industrialization of olive cultivation, with the creation of new mechanized machinery and increasingly technological processes, oils of quality less competitive. The age of olive trees, hundreds or even thousands of years old, spread across the peninsula, further contribute to making the production of Italian extra virgin olive oil more demanding and costly. Thus, the market, oriented towards the lowest price, increasingly rewards low quality oils. For this reason Slow Food has created a national Presidium that promotes the environmental, aesthetic, economic, and health value of Italian extra virgin olive oil. It is a national project because producers of extra virgin all over Italy, in different areas of production, face the same crisis.
