Our olive mill
Open to visitors all year round, a few steps from the apartments
It is not a large mill. It was built to measure for our farm, continuous two-phase, and it presses only our own olives.
The whole process is cold. The olives arrive freshly picked and are pressed within a few hours: it is the only way to get the oil we want.
What you see
Guests of the agriturismo can visit whenever they like, at any time of year. Just ask us.
From October to December, during the harvest, you see the whole cycle: the olives coming in from the fields, the pressing, the oil running out. In the other months you still visit the mill and understand how it works.
The visit lasts ten minutes or half an hour, depending on how many questions you have. We enjoy answering them.
No chemicals, in the field or in the mill
We use no pesticides and no herbicides on our land. No glyphosate, no chemical treatments. The grass is cut, not burned off.
It means more work and a few olives fewer, but it is the only way to have an oil that really tastes of what grows around it.
We take what the land gives, and we work it straight away.
The tasting
At the end, you taste. The new oil, this year's, and all the other products of the farm.
There is nothing to pay and nothing to book: this is simply how you get to know an oil. You taste it, you understand the difference, and then you decide.
After pressing, the oil goes into hermetically sealed tanks, with a storage system that keeps it as it was on the first day. We bottle a little at a time, as needed.
You can only buy it here
We do not sell through supermarkets or distributors. Our oil is bought on site, in the farm shop, or from our website, which ships throughout Europe.
It is a choice: it means knowing the people who buy our oil, and receiving the same orders every year from those who have been here.
Anyone who visits and then goes home can reorder whenever they like, with a small shipping cost.
Our oil can also be ordered online, from our farm's website.
(link su "from our farm's website" → https://olio-asplanato.com/en)
Olive groves brought back to life
Every year we put part of what we earn into buying abandoned olive groves, between 300 and 700 metres above sea level.
They are terraces nobody has worked for decades. With dry-stone walls built by hand, centuries-old trees — some more than a thousand years old — and views you only find by climbing up there.
We clear them, bring them back into production, and part of our oil comes from those trees.
Buying a bottle from us is not just buying oil: it helps keep alive a piece of the Ligurian mountains that would otherwise go back to woodland.
Venite a vedere
Il frantoio e il negozio sono a pochi passi dagli appartamenti di Casa Asplanato. Ci trovate ogni giorno.
Se siete nostri ospiti, la visita e l'assaggio sono compresi nel soggiorno. Se passate di qui senza fermarvi da noi, siete benvenuti lo stesso.
