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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 vaulted building the Moulin Cornille works in was put up in 1610, and by the cooperative's account it has been making olive oil ever since. It began as private property of the Seigneur de Manville and became a cooperative in 1924. It is now formally the Coopérative Oléicole de la Vallée des Baux de Provence, at Maussane-les-Alpilles, with more than 700 active members, by its own reckoning one of the largest olive cooperatives in France. The mill runs from October to mid-December, when those growers bring in their fruit.
The character of the oil is set before crushing. Olives arrive ripe and rest in ten-tonne lots for three to eight days in the lofts above the mill, which gives the cooperative's olives maturées profile; more than 90 per cent of its output is made this way. Five varieties go into it, Salonenque, Grossane, Béruguette or Aglandau, Verdale and Picholine, drawn from a valley the cooperative counts at 370,000 trees across 2,500 hectares of regular orchard. The appellation the oil carries, Huile d'olive de la Vallée des Baux de Provence, was granted in 1997.
At the 2026 Concours national des Huiles d'olive en Appellation d'Origine Protégée, run by France Olive, the cooperative took gold in both Vallée des Baux classes, the matured-olive oil from a lot of 9,729 litres and the standard AOP oil from a lot of 1,951 litres.
From the public record: moulin-cornille.com · franceolive.fr
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