Il Corto

Olio di Oliva Extravergine

PODERE POGGIO SCALETTE cultivates approximately a thousand olive trees, some centuries-old. They are located in a part of the estates between 350 and 450 metres (1150 and 1500  feet) above sea level (a parcel known as “Il Corto”). At this altitude various diseases which elsewhere might strike olive groves are not present and, accordingly, no protective spraying of any sort is practiced.

The olives – Moraiolo, Leccino, and Frantoio the varieties – are handpicked from early November on when they have achieved the proper degree of ripeness. One which guarantees that the extra-virgin olive oil produced will have the characteristic fragrance and the savoury flavour which are typical of fine olive oil from the hills of Chianti Classico.

The harvest olives, within a maximum period of three to four days,  are brought to the olive mill where they are pressed and the oil extracted by a cold–temperature process which gives an oil of the highest possible quality, which is then stored away from damaging sources of light or oxygen.

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