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.
Moulin Fortuné Arizzi begins with a dated act: in 1964 Fortuné and Jeanne Arizzi moved into the Mas des Pins, a run-down property ringed by pines at Les Mées in the Durance valley of Haute-Provence, and put in their first olive grove. The first label came in 1970. Picholine and Frantoio went into the ground in 1973, the Frantoio brought back from Tuscany by Fortuné Arizzi himself. A traditional stone mill and press, bought at Riez in 1975, gave the family its own pressing; a continuous-chain Alfa Laval replaced it in 1988, the same year 1,200 Aglandau trees were planted, and a newer Alfa Laval arrived in 2008. The estate now runs to 28 hectares and 8,000 olive trees, and the oil is a blend of those three varieties, Aglandau, Picholine and Frantoio.
Jeanne Arizzi's own record runs alongside the mill's. She was made Chevalier de l'Olivier at Les Mées in 1995, received the médaille de l'Ordre National du Mérite in 1998, and the médaille de la Légion d'Honneur in 2002. In 1997 the family built the shop and opened what the mill's history calls the region's first pigeonnier ecomuseum, followed by a botanical trail in 1998; the Écomusée des Pigeonniers still forms part of the guided visit. Truffle-infused oil was added in 1999. The mill's timeline records a gold medal at the New York International Olive Oil Competition in 2015 and a silver there in 2016.
From the public record: moulinarizzi.com
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