Pantellolio, extra virgin olive oil

Love for the beauty offered by the Nature, knowledge, professional reliability and quality, these are the values inherited from our Family and these are assets for all of us. The passion for a beautiful island is the reason that drove us to start a Company for producing extra-virgin premium quality olive oil.

We have different professional experiences but we share Values and Ambitions: never stop learning, work for excellence and never be satisfied with the search for quality.

We can definitely say that our extra-virgin olive oil, an oil that shows all its positive characteristics, is the result of the care we put in the growing the olive threes all along the year and of the detailed protocols we always follow:

• manual harvesting in order to prevent mechanical stresses to the olives,
  
• mechanical milling, at 22° Celsius temperature, within four ours from the harvesting, in order to maintain the perfumes,
• immediate filtering, avoiding fermentation,
• storage in stainless AISI 304 containers within nitrogen atmosphere and, finally,
  
• bottling at low pressure and controlled atmosphere.

The whole process is designed to achieve a perfect product well representing the Island that generated it.

Our professional profiles are different: Sandro as executive VP of a big Company decided to "go back" to University and become an academic, Paola, biologist, focused on medical research and diagnostics, Chiara, with a finance background, worked in the renewable energy business, Alice is Professor in theoretical quantum physics. A great variety of backgrounds and a great passion for things that are "beautiful and well done"… Pantelloio is a concrete example of the real Made in Italy.

Pantelleria, the Phonician Cossyra, the Island of winds, is the environment we chosen. Situated  in the center of the Sicily Channel, 70 miles from the African coast and 120 miles from Sicily, Pantelleria  enjoys  a unique climate  that, together with the volcanic nature of the ground, gives to the agriculture - and in particular to olive trees and vine plants - unique and inimitable characteristics.

The dry and mild weather, the deep water reserves reached by the old trees and the constant winds area natural substitute for chemical treatments in preventing parasites. The Mediterranean Pine forests and scrubland perfume in the air. The land, rich in minerals, and the knowledge accumulated for centuries by the local farmers, allow the cultivation of a land that, elsewhere, couldn't be used. Thank to all of this, the miracle is achieved!

These are the origins of our passion and of our love for the Island and we decided to launch an initiative to promote this miracle and share with others the joy and pleasure to enjoy its fruits. We have established a Company where ancient knowledge meets with modern technologies and knowledge to produce oil from our olive trees. We learned how to grow them and they give us a fruit rich of scents that we all find in our oil, also because we have developed an extraction process that protects them.

Maximum care, limited quantity to protect high quality, high costs, excellent result. We know our limits in terms of production capacity, but our objective is to offer an extra-virgin "premium" olive oil that can evoke  unique sensations and enhance greatley the food seasoned. We know that our product is not for everybody, but we believe that we can give a small contribution to large number of excellent food producers and we want to remember our heritage of knowledge and culture.

Since the beginning we trusted in the value of defending this marvelous environment and we decided to rely on sustainability principles. The recent institution of the National Park of Pantelleria strengthens further our proposition and so we decided to certify our products with the organic production brand, officially certifying what we do since the start.