How it's made

 

We work with attention, expertise, care and passion to guarantee the quality of our products, and to bring the best our olive groves have to offer to your table.

Our Extra Virgin Olive Oil production process is completely internal to our company.

The scheme below shows the several steps of production process, from picking to bottling.

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Olive picking

We rigorously hand-pick the olives in the family olive groves
 
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At the oil mill

We carry the olives to the mill within few hours from picking, to preserve their freshness
 
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Defoliation

Foliage is separated from olive to avoid being crushed together
 
 
 
 
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Extraction

The oil is separated from the pomace inside the decanter
 
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Pressing

Olives are crushed and stirred inside a kneader
 
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Washing

Olive are washed by short water jets and then dried in the crusher.
 
 
 
 
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Filtering

Olive oil is filtered when out of the decanter to remove small olive residuals
 
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Storage

Storage in controlled-temperature stainless steel argon tanks
 
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Bottling

Our Extra Virgin Olive Oil is ready to be bottled.

Fun facts

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Frantoio Malavalle | Olio creato con passione
Frantoio Malavalle | Olio creato con passione
Frantoio Malavalle | Olio creato con passione
Frantoio Malavalle | Olio creato con passione