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.
Marfuga takes its name from the hillside above Campello sul Clitunno, in Umbria, where the Gradassi family has been pressing olives since 1817 — the date comes from an old oil container stamped by the Papal State, the earliest record the family still keeps. Domenico Gradassi was sending demijohns of the oil north to Milan and Turin by around 1900. His son Ettore came back to the groves in the 1950s and built a new mill in 1976, and it was Ettore's son Francesco who, starting in the 1990s, put Marfuga on the shelves of gastronomy stores across Italy and then abroad. The family is now in its fifth generation. Their forty hectares climb between 300 and 600 meters across Campello, Spoleto, and Trevi, planted mostly to Moraiolo with some Frantoio and Leccino, held on the slopes by dry stone terraces built centuries ago. This stretch of hillside, the Fascia Olivata between Assisi and Spoleto, was added to the FAO's Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems list in 2018, the first place in Italy to get that recognition. The oil carries the DOP Umbria seal and is certified organic. Flos Olei has scored the Riserva 99 out of 100 several years running, Gambero Rosso named Marfuga its Producer of the Year for 2025, and Slow Food gave L'Affiorante its Presidio designation.
From the public record: marfuga.it · gamberorossointernational.com · winenews.it
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