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  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil earthenware jars ("orcie" in Italian) are stored here in the farm of olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014. These earthenware are no longer used since European regulation imposed the usage of alluminium containers for the storage of olive oil.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3934.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil earthenware jars ("orcie" in Italian) are stored here in the farm of olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014. These earthenware are no longer used since European regulation imposed the usage of alluminium containers for the storage of olive oil.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3948.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil earthenware jars ("orcie" in Italian) are stored here in the farm of olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014. These earthenware are no longer used since European regulation imposed the usage of alluminium containers for the storage of olive oil.<br />
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<br />
The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3946.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil earthenware jars ("orcie" in Italian) and alluminium jars  are stored here in a room of the farm of olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014. These earthenware are no longer used since European regulation imposed the usage of alluminium containers for the storage of olive oil.<br />
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<br />
The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3929.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil earthenware jars ("orcie" in Italian) are stored here in a room of the farm of olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014. These earthenware are no longer used since European regulation imposed the usage of alluminium containers for the storage of olive oil.<br />
<br />
The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3928.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: A bottling machine used to fill olive oil bottles was left unplugged this year in olive oil producer Federico Dufour's farm in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4160.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Bio products, including last year's olive oil, is sold at the entrance of the Fattoria di Macia, a farmhouse and agritourism owned by olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4142.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Bio products, including last year's olive oil, is sold at the entrance of the Fattoria di Macia, a farmhouse and agritourism owned by olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4133.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil earthenware jars ("orcie" in Italian) are stored here in the farm of olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
<br />
The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3938.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil trees of olive oil producer Federico Dufour were infected by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4102.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil trees of olive oil producer Federico Dufour were infected by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4083.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil trees of olive oil producer Federico Dufour were infected by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4081.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: The villa of olive oil producer Federico Dufour steps outside the "orciaia" (olive oil storage room) in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4003.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour steps outside the "orciaia" (olive oil storage room) at his farm in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3882.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Empty olive oil storage jars are here at the farmhouse of oil producer Federico Dufour, since the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly, ravaged his crop this year in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4173.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Containers and funnels used to store olive oil weren't used this year at the farm of olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4162.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour shows withered olives with holes caused by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, by olive trees in his property in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4026.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil storage jars are empty this years since the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly, ravaged Federico Dufour's crop this year in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4149.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour walks by olive trees infected by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4125.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour walks by olive trees infected by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
<br />
The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4117.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour walks by olive trees infected by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4114.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour poses for a portrait in front of his farmhoue and by his olive trees in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4072.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour shows withered olives with holes caused by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, by olive trees in his property in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4033.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour shows the unusual blossoming of an olive treee which should take place in the spring, here on an olive tree of his property in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4031.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour is here by olive trees in his property in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4007.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour is here in his family property in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3978.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: A view of the olive tree field (bottom half of image) of olive oil producer Federico Dufour is here by olive trees in his property in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3970.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: A view of the olive tree field (bottom half of image) of olive oil producer Federico Dufour is here by olive trees in his property in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3968.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour opens the doors of his family farmhouse in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3964.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour is here by his family farmhouse in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3897.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: A tractor and farming tools are here at the entrance of olive oil producer Federico Dufour's farm in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3885.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil storage jars are empty this years since the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly, ravaged Federico Dufour's crop this year in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
<br />
The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4169.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Withered olives with holes caused by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, fell on the ground and have remained unpicked by olive oil producer Federico Dufour in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4044.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour shows withered olives with holes caused by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, by olive trees in his property in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
<br />
The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4036.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Olive oil producer Federico Dufour walks towards his family farmhouse in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_3893.jpg
  • CALENZANO, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2014: Withered olives with holes caused by the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged his crop, are left an olive tree in Federico Dufour's property in Calenzano, 20 kilometers north of Florence, Italy, on November 24th 2014.<br />
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The olive harvest was practically non-existent this fall in Calenzano because of the Bactrocera oleae, an olive fruit fly that this year ravaged entire olive crops. Italy’s Institute of Services for Agriculture and Food Market, or ISMEA, calculated that olive oil production fell on average by 35 percent from 302,000 tons from 463,000 the previous year.
    CIPG_20141124_NYT_OliveOil__M3_4047.jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) is here in the oil mill of Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
    CIPG_20150529_INYT_SICILY-Becchina__...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018: A bottle of Villa Romana olive oil, produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta), is seen here in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018.<br />
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Villa Romana won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
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Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.Villa won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or v
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_09...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018: A bottle of Villa Romana olive oil, produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta), is seen here in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018.<br />
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Villa Romana won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
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<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.Villa won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or v
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  • RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018: Olive oil is stored into stainless bins after being processed by the machines of Domus Olivae, a state-of-the-art olive mill in Riva del Garda, a northern town on the northern shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. Domus Olivae uses the latest technology in which olives crushed by stainless-steel grinders produce a paste that is then whirled in a centrifuge, yielding a clear oil that expresses the intense flavors of the fruit. <br />
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Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018: Casaliva olive oil is poured into a stainless bin after being processed by the machines of Domus Olivae, a state-of-the-art olive mill in Riva del Garda, a northern town on the northern shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. Domus Olivae uses the latest technology in which olives crushed by stainless-steel grinders produce a paste that is then whirled in a centrifuge, yielding a clear oil that expresses the intense flavors of the fruit. <br />
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Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018: Casaliva olive oil is processed through  the machines of Domus Olivae, a state-of-the-art olive mill in Riva del Garda, a northern town on the northern shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. Domus Olivae uses the latest technology in which olives crushed by stainless-steel grinders produce a paste that is then whirled in a centrifuge, yielding a clear oil that expresses the intense flavors of the fruit. <br />
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Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: A Syrian mosaic is here at the entrance of the house belonging to antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76), at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) is here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) is here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) checks the olive trees here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) shows an antique brass grating of a coistored convent, here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018: Olive oil is stored into stainless bins after being processed by the machines of Domus Olivae, a state-of-the-art olive mill in Riva del Garda, a northern town on the northern shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. Domus Olivae uses the latest technology in which olives crushed by stainless-steel grinders produce a paste that is then whirled in a centrifuge, yielding a clear oil that expresses the intense flavors of the fruit. <br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018: Casaliva olive oil is poured into a stainless bin after being processed by the machines of Domus Olivae, a state-of-the-art olive mill in Riva del Garda, a northern town on the northern shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. Domus Olivae uses the latest technology in which olives crushed by stainless-steel grinders produce a paste that is then whirled in a centrifuge, yielding a clear oil that expresses the intense flavors of the fruit. <br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018: Casaliva olive oil is processed through  the machines of Domus Olivae, a state-of-the-art olive mill in Riva del Garda, a northern town on the northern shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. Domus Olivae uses the latest technology in which olives crushed by stainless-steel grinders produce a paste that is then whirled in a centrifuge, yielding a clear oil that expresses the intense flavors of the fruit. <br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) is here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) walks by the pool here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) walks by the pool here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) is here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) shows the machinery in the oil mill where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde", at the Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: The interior of the oil mill where antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) produces the "Olio Verde", at the Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) is here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina (76) is here at Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate where he lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 29 MAY 2015: Olive trees at the Tenuta Pignatelli, the estate where antiquities dealer and olive oil producer Gianfranco Becchina lives and produces the "Olio Verde" olive oil in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy, on May 29th 2015.<br />
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Gianfranco Becchina is an Italian antiquities dealer who was taken to trial in Italy of illegally dealing in antiquities. Gianfranco Becchina dealing antiquities in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s, and has sold material to major museums including the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mr Becchina claims to have stopped dealing ancient art in 1994. Since 1989 he produces the olive oil "Olio Verde" in Tenuta Pignatelli, his estate in the heart of the Valle del Belice, Sicily, where the Nocellara del Belice olive is grown.
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
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Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio drives his Piaggio Van loaded with harvesting tools in the  Villa Romana olive grove, in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018.<br />
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The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016. <br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive v
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
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The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every yea
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_93...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    SMAS_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_DSCF6...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 29 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 29th 2018.<br />
<br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181130_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_21...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 29 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 29th 2018.<br />
<br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181130_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_20...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181129_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_19...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181129_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_19...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181129_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_18...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, eats a sandwich under a  Villa Romana olive tree, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_99...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is harvested here in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million tr
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_94...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every yea
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_93...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety with a hydraulic wand,  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gath
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_92...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, poses for a portrait by a Villa Romana olive tree in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in I
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_92...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is harvested here in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million tr
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_90...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety with a hydraulic wand,  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gath
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_90...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety with a hydraulic wand,  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gath
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_89...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, places the harvesting nets by the trees  the Villa Romana olive variety,  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here). Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varietie
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_88...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018: A view of the church of Toscolano Maderno seen from, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
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Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, checks a tree of the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_04...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, checks a tree of the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_03...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, shows Villa Romana olives in three different steps of their maturation process,  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here). Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive v
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, poses for a portrait by a Villa Romana olive tree in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in I
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_01...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, poses for a portrait by a Villa Romana olive tree in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in I
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_01...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, poses for a portrait by a Villa Romana olive tree in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in I
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_01...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  A  Villa Romana olive tree, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  is seen here in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_01...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, eats a sandwich under a  Villa Romana olive tree, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_00...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, drinks a beer by the Villa Romana olive trees, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_00...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, eats a sandwich under a  Villa Romana olive tree, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_00...jpg
  • GARGNANO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, poses for a portrait in a hillside olive grove in Gargnano, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
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The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivator
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_78...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, checks a tree of the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_77...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, walks towards the trees of the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_77...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, holds a branch of the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_77...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_76...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  First century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii, as the upper-class Roman family who lived here were known, are seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. Here Sergio Cozzaglio found the Villa Romana olive variety growing amidst the ruins. Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_76...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    SMAS_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_DSCF7...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    SMAS_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_DSCF6...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    SMAS_20181127_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_DSCF6...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 29 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 29th 2018.<br />
<br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181130_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_21...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 29 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 29th 2018.<br />
<br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181130_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_20...jpg
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