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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.
Giancarlo Turri grew up watching his father Mario run the cellar and oil mill of a Venetian villa near Cavaion Veronese as a castaldo, the estate manager who kept the place running and never stopped experimenting with how to press a better oil. In 1951 Giancarlo used what he'd learned and started his own mill on the morainic hills east of Lake Garda, ground shaped by glaciers and warmed by a lake that pushes the Mediterranean climate further north than it has any right to go — locals call it the last place in Europe where an olive tree can still make oil. For the first few years the mill mostly pressed olives for other growers, but by the late 1950s the Turris were bottling and selling their own extra virgin under their own name. The oil leans on Casaliva, the variety native to this side of the lake, at close to 60 percent, filled out with Leccino, Pendolino, Raza and Moraiolo. In 1997 the Garda oil earned DOP status, tying the name to this stretch of hillside for good. Giancarlo's children — Mario, Laura, Luisa and Giovanni — joined through the 1980s and still run the mill, and Laura has gone on to chair the Garda DOP consortium and plant a collection field of old cultivars at the mill so the varieties that built the oil don't get lost.
From the public record: turri.com · olioofficina.it
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