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The Buonamici family has worked the hills above Florence, in the town of Fiesole, for more than two hundred years. Cesare Buonamici grew up on that land, and in 1991 he and his sister Cesara turned the family holding into a proper olive oil estate, 250 hectares spread across the hillsides and planted with 30,000 trees. They grow five cultivars suited to Fiesole's soil: Frantoio, Moraiolo, Leccino, Maurino, and Leccio del Corno, each bringing something different into the blend. In 1995 they certified the whole operation organic, among the first in Tuscany to make that commitment and hold to it through the decades since. Cesare kept working the technical side too, partnering with the University of Florence and Italy's National Research Council to study how to carry more of the olive's natural antioxidants through into the finished oil. That work fed into a new mill built on the estate, designed around cold extraction, controlled temperatures, and nitrogen storage to protect the oil once it's pressed. The results reached judges well beyond Italy: their Toscano IGP "Colline di Firenze" took Gold at the Japan Olive Oil Prize in both 2018 and 2019. The flagship bottling is labeled simply Cesare Buonamici.
From the public record: buonamici.it · oliveology.co.uk
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