Liquid Gold

extra virgin olive oil

A good olive oil belongs on every lavishly laid table. Over the past few years, we have gotten to know not only wine and grappa, but also excellent olive oil producers and their products. As great appreciators of liquid gold, we have added a well-stocked selection of olive oils to our range.

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The real Muraglia boss

Shall we go to Apulia? To Andria? Here, on the plateau, the real Muraglia boss has stood for almost 500 years: a gnarled Croatina olive tree. It has probably seen everything in its time, but it would never have made it out into the world on its own. For that you need at least a testa dura - a visionary stubborn head. One like Savino the Elder has. He founded the Frantoio Muraglia.

02

A quality product

Savino's son, Vincenco, is now the master of oil. The hand-picked olives have always been pressed between granite stones in the family's traditional house, but the greatest enemy of olive oil is oxygen, and so a modern, closed extraction process ensures that contact with oxygen can be almost completely eliminated. A complete obsession with quality and unconditional devotion to the terroir, nature, biodiversity and the will to lend a hand there; that is Muraglia.

03

And the ceramic bottles?

They are made and painted by hand on site, in the traditional way, and anyone who tries to get Savino junior mad accuses him of whitewashing his bottles as a marketing gimmick. Savino shakes his head: "They're not just pretty. Clay bottles are the perfect container for olive oil. They are 100 percent opaque and provide excellent insulation," he says, and wishes you lots of fun with them, with a wink.

01

The real Muraglia boss

Shall we go to Apulia? To Andria? Here, on the plateau, the real Muraglia boss has stood for almost 500 years: a gnarled Croatina olive tree. It has probably seen everything in its time, but it would never have made it out into the world on its own. For that you need at least a testa dura - a visionary stubborn head. One like Savino the Elder has. He founded the Frantoio Muraglia.

02

A quality product

Savino's son, Vincenco, is now the master of oil. The hand-picked olives have always been pressed between granite stones in the family's traditional house, but the greatest enemy of olive oil is oxygen, and so a modern, closed extraction process ensures that contact with oxygen can be almost completely eliminated. A complete obsession with quality and unconditional devotion to the terroir, nature, biodiversity and the will to lend a hand there; that is Muraglia.

03

And the ceramic bottles?

They are made and painted by hand on site, in the traditional way, and anyone who tries to get Savino junior mad accuses him of whitewashing his bottles as a marketing gimmick. Savino shakes his head: "They're not just pretty. Clay bottles are the perfect container for olive oil. They are 100 percent opaque and provide excellent insulation," he says, and wishes you lots of fun with them, with a wink.