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Frantoio Fratelli Pugliese: a family story since 1958.

In Orsomarso, at the foot of the Pollino massif, three generations of the Pugliese family have turned the olives of the Lao valley into extra virgin olive oil. It's the same producer behind every bottle we bring to your table.

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From our lands to your table

Real Italian olive oil is more than an ingredient. It's a family's discipline, harvest after harvest, carried from grandparents to grandchildren without ever cutting a corner.

1958, Orsomarso, Calabria

It started with the grandparents.

The family's story began in 1958 in Orsomarso, a small town in the province of Cosenza, where the Pugliese grandparents planted the roots of what would become the family mill, a frantoio built to turn the valley's olives into honest, well-made oil.

The Pugliese family olive mill in Orsomarso, Calabria

Piero & Adriana

Carried forward with devotion.

Their parents, Piero and Adriana, took up the work with real passion and commitment, dedicating themselves to producing a genuine Italian extra virgin olive oil: good, honest, and true to the land it came from.

Olive groves along the Lao valley

Today

Now in the hands of their children.

Today the same family pursues the same goal, harvest after harvest: oils of genuine quality, appreciated well beyond Calabria, made by people who grew up among these trees.

Olive harvest in the Pollino National Park Freshly pressed olive oil

The land

"Surrounded by the Pollino National Park, we grow our olives along the Lao river valley, a land rich in water, with a microclimate that gives the fruit its low acidity and unmistakable aroma."
Frantoio Fratelli Pugliese

From grove to bottle

Craft, not shortcuts.

Every step still carries the discipline the grandparents started with. Only the tools have evolved.

Washing the olives before milling
Hand-selected olives, washed before milling
Granite millstones pressing the olives
Granite millstones, passed down from the past
Modern milling machinery at the frantoio
Modern machinery preserving every phenolic quality
The finished extra virgin olive oil
Oil pressed the same day the olives are picked

Story and imagery courtesy of Frantoio Fratelli Pugliese. Read their story in full at terredellao.it.