Picking sistem: by hand

Natural decantation

Smell: green grass

Acidity: <0,2

Polyphenols: 366 p.p.m.

Olive variety: Nocellara del Belice.

The squeezing process: when cold and by continuous integral cycles

Colour: yellowish green

Taste: fresh fruit

Peroxides: 4,6 meq 02/kg

During the history events all the civilizations born on the Mediterranean shores have recognized on the olive. Tree of Belice Valley indisputable nourishingand healthy value. Here the olive-tree has seen Sicilians, helmis, Carthaginians, Phoenicians, Ionians, Greeks, Romans, Arabians, Normans, Spanish, Frenches etc. alterning with various result in the context of territory.

In this valley the olive plant can benefit with climate mildness and soil fertility at the mountains slopes and along therivers shores.

And it's just in the heart of this valley that our farm "EUBES" is situated. It is localized in Contrada Seggio, Castelvetrano (TP) near the ancient greek colony of Selinunte and its large naturalistic reserve.

It is contituted of young plants and exclusively "Nocellara del Belice" an irriguous farm in a healty and unpolluted ambient, where the pruning is made every to promote the growth of lateral and lower branches por hand pickingup of olives.

Thanks to microclimatic characteristics unique in the world, to the high professionality aquired during a lot of years from our family, we can extract from our olives an oil with tastes and perfumes of ancient times.

Very esteemed, sought- after from connoisseurs from all over the world.

Organolectic characteristics: By sight it has got a beautiful golden yellow colour with warm green tonalities, clear. By smell opens wide and elegant, endowed with an intense vegetal and fruit note, with fresh lawn herbs, striking mature tomato, remembering of origanum and basil in the closing. By taste is fine and complex characterized by decise notes of lettuce sage and dry fruit.

Bitter and hot armonic and dosed.

Use: Suitable both for delicate foods to exalt, without mask, the taste of courses as fish, openings, white meats or boiled, and raw with "bruschetta", vegetable, meast, yegetable soups, boked fish, blank pasta, "pinzimonio", to exalt the taste of cooked vegetable and legumes.

Healthy Virtues: Rich in vitamines and natural antioxidants helps, with daily use to slow the cellular aging and reduces cardiovascular deseases risk. Suggested by dietologists for adults and children freeding because of high digestibility.

Beside presenting normally alow number of peroxides that preserve it from oxidation, it distinguihes itself also for the extremely low acidity degree, about 0,2.

The Extra Virgin olives oil D.O.P: "SANTA LUCIA" is a tipical product of absolute quality and excellence, recognized between the best national oil production reality.

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THE PRODUCER: FRANCESCO CACIOPPO