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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.
Frantoio Salvagno began in 1923, when Gioacchino Salvagno and his brothers Eliseo, Angelo and Giuseppe built a mill in Nesente, a hamlet tucked into the Valpantena valley just north of Verona. Olives had grown here since Roman times, but nobody nearby had a press, so the family put one up, first to crush their own fruit, then to take in olives from other farmers in the valley who had nowhere else to go. For decades the mill did custom pressing on the side, and its own oil went out in bulk until the 1950s. Grezzana, the town Nesente belongs to, sits inside the boundary drawn for the Veneto Valpolicella DOP when it was recognized in 2001. The valley holds a second Salvagno mill as well: Redoro, founded in 1895 by another branch of the family, presses around half of all Veneto DOP oil each year from its frantoi at Grezzana and Mezzane di Sotto, and the two names together have made the Valpantena the center of Veneto oil. Giovanni Salvagno carried the mill into its third generation, working alongside his wife Elena and daughters Francesca and Cristina. In 2023 they marked their hundredth harvest with a book, Le nostre vite per l'olio, and the following year Giovanni was named Mastro d'Oro, the award AIFO gives each year to the country's best oil miller, at Enoliexpo in Bari. Francesca went on to join AIFO's board, one of the first women in Italy to hold a national seat in the trade.
From the public record: oliosalvagno.com · egnews.it · olioofficina.it · redoro.it
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