Olio Extra Vergine d'Oliva Slow Food Zaituna - Extra Virgin Olive Oil Slow Food from Sicily - Tenuta Cavasecca

There is a story behind this oil. Tenuta Cavasecca sits near Siracusa, between the Iblei mountains and the sea, run by the Ficara family and their son Dario, who came back to the family land after studying economics at Bocconi.

Zaituna is their most robust oil, an organic monovarietal pressed from old Siracusana trees, some of them centuries and even a thousand years old. The olives are hand picked from mid September and milled within six hours, then stored under nitrogen. Intense green with golden shades, with notes of almond, artichoke leaf and green tomato, an enveloping bitterness and a spice that lingers. Lovely raw over a legume soup, grilled vegetables or bread.