What’s new in our little world?

This year, our combined love for Toscana and Sicilia has a surprising twist.

We are now offering a selection of Sicilia Extra Virgin Olive Oils, we have teamed with a wonderful local frantoio in Sciacca so that you can complement your olive oil cellar with flavors of Biancolilla, Nocellara del Belice, Cerasuola oils

We have decided to do so because both the quality and availability of oil is really top level in Sicilia. Also recently the tensions in the olive oil market has made Toscana E.V.O very expensive and difficult to find.

We are personally supervising the quality and consistency.

You just need to order and they will be shipped to your door.

for more information contact info@eleiva.it

Casa Olivastra is located in (GPS 42.922527, 11.531553) or
here https://goo.gl/maps/eQfki9xqiRWNuPXo6

We VERY STRONGLY recommend that you go all the way to SEGGIANO (GR) and follow the instructions below to reach us.
It all starts in front of the Seggiano COOP supermarket parking lot.

Below is a video that will show you the road from:
– Seggiano COOP supermarket GPS 42.9286933178067, 11.561564574433266

all the way to
– Casa Olivastra (GPS 42.922527, 11.531553)

With the map and the video you most surely will get there without problems.
As an additional note when you get very close to destination you will see the final turn as in the image below: you have arrived !!!

This year has been an extremely good year, it was 15 years we did not have such wonderful conditions for the olive grove.

The spring was a little confusing with a mixture of mild temperatures and 3 weeks of strong rain. Rain can be problematic when the olives are flowering: the rain can wash the pollen thus reducing the number of future olives. Many areas around us were hit by that rain during the flowering season, but we were lucky.

We are quite high up and the olive trees flowered just after the strong rains meaning that the pollen had a chance to fly around (pollination for olive trees happen with the wind, not with insects).

Then the summer was VERY hot and dry till September, with temperatures up to 43 celsius in the shade.

The olive trees went in protection mode and the fruits ended quite dry till about 2 weeks before harvest time at the middle of October. The production was late.
We had some rain 2nd half of October, and it was JUST in time to give some water to the trees and fruits. Beginning of November all was set for a wonderful harvest.

Bottom line is that we had an amazing harvest in quality and quantity. The yield was average but quality was good !!!, altogether 250 liters of Poggiarello EVO

There is very good oil available in our area which we can easily source for you once our stock is over.

Beyond Tuscany, we are in collaboration with mills and producers in Sicily and our list of Italian EVO of quality will be soon on display on this site

Emmanuel