Azienda Palmerini

Agriturismo San Bernardino del Lago

Stone Cold Pressed Extravergin Olive Oil

In Tuscany, we are specialist producers of true, pure and very distinctive oil, and to obtain it we take care of the plants and select the crop. Our hills seem more a garden rather than a land parcels. We prune the olive-trees so that the light nor much, nor too strong, penetrating

everywhere to ward off diseases caused by moisture and cold. The olives are picked one by one by hand, taking them off the plant with patience and resignation, green not to drop them from the wind, and to preven the ice to cook them, but also to maintain inaterate the organoleptic properties of this special product.

At a height of almost 500 m above sea level and due to the natural formation of the ground and in particular to the presence of the stone we can produce superlative oil. Our olive grove has almost 700 plants; the oil is characterized by an unique aroma and flavor, and its nutritional properties and healing are

characterized by a high proportion of antioxidants and vitamin E. The 70 per cent of the plants is frantoiano olive-tree, the 20 per cent sono moraiolo one, while the restant 10 per cent is leccino olive-tree.

The Oil of San Bernardino is ground with the ancient COLD process of MILLSTONE in total respect of tradition, and giving it a delicate aroma, an intense color and a unique flavor.

Frantoiano Olive-Tree

Most valuable variety, but also more sensitive it is in fact characterized by a limited tolerance to cold and diseases. The olive-grooves marked by the prevalence of frantoiano olive-trees produce the best oil but at the same time the oil production is most at risk because of the sensitivity of this plant. The berries are long, evergreen, it produces delicate and green oil.

Moraiolo Olive-Tree

Excellent variety with small, round and hard berries, it produces golden-yellow with green reflections oil with a strong flavor. It is a very rustic variety, that has high content of oleuropein, as well as giving bitter and spicy aromas, it has several pharmacological actions: antibacterial, antiviral and calcioantagonista on blood vessels.

Leccino Olive-Tree

Less appreciated variety with fairly large oval berries, green oil and less intense flavor. For its high tolerance to climatic changes and most diseases, it is grown in all Italian Olive areas, but mainly in southern Italy and in the main oil-distribution areas of the world. The polyphenol content, responsible for the fruity and bitter flavors and for anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer and

anti-allergic propertis, is generally low when the gathering is to run from November to December with fully mature fruits, so the olive harvest in San Bernardino begins early, the second week of October.

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