Olive Auction built this page from public records so buyers can find the estate. Its own people can claim it at no cost — complete the story, list lots, answer buyers.
After a claim, we confirm by emailEverything here comes from public sources — award lists, certification registers, the territory inventories. The rest of the story — the family, the grove, the real age of the trees, this year's lab sheet — only the mill can tell, and it is the part buyers bid on.
The ground at Les Mées, in the Durance valley of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, has a documented chain of owners in the estate's own record. A Marseille doctor, Joseph Salvator, bought the Campagne Salvator around 1800 and served as mayor of Les Mées; the brothers Jules and Louis Tourniaire took it in 1861; and in 1902 Casimir Pinatel, born 1855 and formerly a merchant in Marseille, bought the roughly 110 hectares from Julie Deloche, née Tourniaire. His descendants have farmed it since: David, then Charles, who began working the land directly in 1955, then André and Charly, who set up a GAEC in 1979. Sophie and Frédéric Pinatel run it now, the fifth generation on the place.
The estate presses its own fruit, in a mill opened in November 2010. The Syndicat AOP Huile de Provence register puts the grove at more than 10,000 olive trees, 40 per cent of them described as very old and the rest plantings more than fifteen years established, with Aglandau dominant alongside Bouteillan, Picholine and Tanche. Part of the grove has been converted to organic farming. Both AOP Provence and AOP Haute Provence apply.
Marco Oreggia's guide named the Cuvée Mistral its extra virgin olive oil of the year for 2009, and the Concours Général Agricole de Paris gave the Cuvée Paradis a silver in 2011. At the 2026 Concours national des Huiles d'olive en Appellation d'Origine Protégée, run by France Olive, the estate took a gold and a silver in the Huile d'olive de Provence AOP class, each from a 4,000-litre lot.
From the public record: campagne.domainesalvator.fr · domainesalvator.fr · huile-olive-provence.fr · franceolive.fr
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