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Category: Toscana

Tuscany is one of the most known Italian regions: the art, the culture, the history and the ongoing research for excellence makes it famous and exemplary all over the world.
The continuous research for beauty in life as in art has always distinguished Tuscany while making cities like Florence, Siena or Pisa a source of inspiration for many: over the centuries, Tuscany has been the birthplace of masterpieces, and the scenery where milestones in art, science, literature and more were achieved.
Throughout history, Tuscany’s world-renewed hills have inspired painters, travellers and poets. Today these landscapes are widely cultivated with vineyards and olive groves, which fits so perfectly harmonic in the scene that it seems like they were painted in the scenery.
The temperate climate, the proximity to the sea, its soil diversity and richness, the know-how in agriculture and olive oil manufacturing create the perfect frame for wine and EVOO quality production. Just think of Sangiovese, one of the most known Italian grape varieties from which the classic Chianti is born, or the so-called “Super Tuscans”, Italian examples of innovation and quality research.
Thanks to their soft bitter notes and the characterizing scents, Tuscan olive varieties are now being cultivated in many other Italian regions. Moreover, their popularity resides on the resistance of those cultivars to relevant weather changes, and on their good-productivity: because of all these factors, these cultivars are today implanted all over the Italian peninsula – from the northern regions (e.g. Piemonte, Lombardia, Trentino) to the southern ones (e.g. Abruzzo, Puglia, Calabria, Sicily) – and beyond. Frantoio, Leccino, and Moraiolo are among the major cultivars, which in Tuscany express all their elegance and equilibrium qualities.
It was indeed in Toscana, thanks to the work of its enlightened millers, that decades ago the rebirth of quality Italian EVO oil took place, to then spread out all over the peninsula and beyond.
Almost 119 olive varieties can be found in Tuscany. Among them, Frantoio, Leccino, Moraiolo, Punteruolo, Razzo,Olivastra Seggianese, Caninese are the most known.
Tuscany is home to 4 PDOs: Chianti Classico, Lucca, Seggiano, Terre di Siena; there is also 1 PGI, the Toscano.

Querciamatta – Organic

Querciamatta is a name that has its own identity: Quercia, literally oak, identifies strength, stability and balance, Matta, literally mad, identifies that pinch of madness necessary to make great things. Discover the EVOO on our review!

Leccino, Pendolino – Tenuta S. Donato

Leccino and Pendolino is an EVO oil of medium intensity which, with its balanced bitter and pungent sensations, combines the tasting especially with fish and vegetable recipes. Read more on our review.

Toscano PGI – Castello di Meleto

Extra virgin olive oil by Castello di Meleto is gentle and never intrusive, it reflects the classicism of its territory, and has in itself the notes of vegetable, almond... Read our review now!

Toscano PGI – Inserrata

There is a huge difference between being light and being flat, among delicateness and inconsistency; Inserrata PGI EVO oil is delicate, but never predictable.