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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.

Aroldo – Az. Casa Olivo

Aroldo is an extra virgin olive oil characterized by the typical Tuscan pungency, and a vegetable and spicy bouquet of flavours. Read more on our review!

Moraiolo – Tenuta San Donato

In this review, we discover a 100% Moraiolo which Tenuta S. Donato has the care to press as close as possible to harvest time, in order to obtain a "fruit juice" rich in vegetal and aromatic scents.

Villa Magra – Frantoio Franci

Intensity, equilibrium and extreme high quality: these are the key features of Villa Magra EVO oil. When it comes to top-quality Italian EVOO production, Frantoio Franci is a trailblazer.

Organic – Inserrata

Inserrata Organic EVOO comes from organic crops; it knows how to recall these lands also in its organoleptic analysis, with its richness of green vegetable scents. Read our review!