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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.
Paolo Cassini's family has been pressing olives in Isolabona, in Liguria's Val Nervia, since 1962, when his grandfather Jean and his father Giannino set up the first mill with stone wheels and a traditional press. Paolo grew up inside it — by seven he was already working the dosing machine after school, filling baskets with olive paste straight from the grinder. A hard frost in 1985 damaged the groves badly enough that his father shut the mill down for a stretch. Paolo kept the trees going, and in the late 1990s he started buying up small parcels of grove around Isolabona, Dolceacqua, Camporosso and Apricale. The estate now runs to ten hectares and about 2,000 Taggiasca trees terraced between 150 and 550 meters, some of them groves the producer attributes to Benedictine monks who planted here around the thirteenth century to test what the soil could do. Paolo modernized the mill in 1993 and again in 2008, moving to a two-phase stainless-steel extraction that keeps polyphenols and fruitiness up without adding water to the paste. The estate is certified organic. The flagship, Extremum, is a Taggiasca monocultivar that has scored 98/100 with Flos Olei, taken Three Leaves from Gambero Rosso, and won Best Organic Oil in the World at the BIOL competition in 2021.
From the public record: oliocassini.it · oliocentrica.it · gamberorosso.it · olivevive.it
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