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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 Moulin de Prunete stands at Prunete, in the commune of Cervione on Corsica's Costa Verde, and it grew out of a market-gardening family: Joseph Rioli's account has his great-grandfather and his father's uncle growing fruit and vegetables there from 1950. The mill was set up by Jacques Rioli — dated to 1971 in regional producer listings, while the family's own shop description puts its oils from 1972 — and passed to his son Joseph. Joseph's son Thierry farms his own holding, planted in 2008, and works with his father at the mill. In 1995 Joseph swapped traditional pressing for a continuous chain, which lets the mill take up to 400 tonnes of olives a year, granite millstones kept in service beside it.
Two AOP oils come out of it, separated by the way the fruit is gathered, following the two harvest categories the Syndicat AOC Oliu di Corsica recognises. The oil carrying the mill's own name is made from olives picked off the tree, a blend of ghjermana, sabine and picholine. The Huile du Couvent de Cervione is pressed from olives that fall of their own accord into suspended nets, ghjermana predominant, and comes from the olive trees of the convent at Cervione, which the mill and regional listings date to roughly three hundred years in the ground. Corsican olive oil took the appellation d'origine contrôlée in 2004 and the appellation d'origine protégée in 2007. Both oils have been decorated at the Concours Général Agricole in Paris and the national competition at Nyons, including a gold at Paris in 2015 and a silver in 2016.
From the public record: gustidicorsica.com · visit-corsica.com · oliudicorsica.fr · castagniccia-maremonti.com
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