Santa Valeria Extra Virgin Olive Oil is an high quality olive oil. Above all it’s organic.
Olive trees have been treated only with organic products.
Only in extraordinarily difficult crop, in case there is a lot of rain and then olive flies are really aggressive, a small amount of poison it sprayed on the branch of every 5 trees. Then flies are attracted by the hormone it contains and the contact, they will dye. Under normal conditions poisons are not used on the trees.
The company squeezes the oil 2 times a day: once in the morning and once at night. This makes a difference, because olives should be pressed on the same day. This is a fantastic thing, very rare among olive oil producers.
Squeezing has been done cold and the olives are squeezed once.
The Extra Virgin Olive Oil is obtained by Bianchera olives.
Santa Valeria Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a robust oil, slightly spicy, with a bitter aftertaste.