Frollemente used our Prime Gocce extra virgin olive oil to create three delicious salads with the ingredients and flavours of autumn and winter. Find out how to prepare these simple, delicious and natural salads in just a few minutes. Chicken salad with radicchio, fennel, orange, and green and black olives. A chicken salad with an intense […]
olio extravergine d’oliva
THE FIRST DROPS
We often hear the term olio nuovo, or new olive oil, but it is not always clear what this means. It is commonly used to refer newer oil, to oil that is under a year old. A bottle of oil from the November 2016 harvest would therefore be considered “olio nuovo” until the arrival of […]
OIL BREAD
A soup or a salad will certainly not be meal enough: some pane all’olio, perhaps with a bit of finocchiona fennel seed salame and a chunk of good, aged pecorino, will complete your light lunch. WHAT WE NEED: 500 g OF WHITE FLOUR 100 g OF VIGNAMAGGIO’S PRIME GOCCE OLIVE OIL 10 g NATURAL YEAST […]
NEWLY PRESSED OLIVE OIL
It all begins in the olive groves. An area of 30 hectares with 5000 trees, comprising of traditional Chianti cultivars: Frantoio, Leccino, Moraiolo and Pendolino. The olives are handpicked at harvest time, which usually begins at the end of October. Olive picking is no easy task, especially after the rain when the ground is muddy. […]