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.
Capezzana's story survives on a piece of parchment kept today in the state archive in Florence. It's dated 804 AD, a lease agreement for vineyards and olive groves at a place called Capezzana, in the hills of Carmignano west of Florence. That's the earliest written trace of olives being grown and pressed here, over a thousand years before anyone thought to bottle the oil for sale. The land passed through several families over the centuries, the Cantucci, the Bourbon del Monte, the Adimari Morelli, then the Franchetti Rothschild, before Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi and his wife Vittoria bought it in the 1920s and folded in three neighboring farms, Trefiano, Cerretino, and Poggetto, to form the estate as it stands now. The groves climb the slopes of Montalbano, planted mostly to Moraiolo, with Frantoio filling out most of the rest and small amounts of Pendolino and Leccino mixed in. Olives are picked and brought to the estate's own mill within a day, milled cold at a slow extraction so the oil keeps its aroma, then left to settle naturally in a stone vessel instead of being spun a second time. The whole operation has been certified organic for years now, and the fourth and fifth generations of the Contini Bonacossi family still run it.
From the public record: capezzana.it · reportergourmet.com
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