Extra Virgin Veneto Grappa Oil Filtered 500ml

Oro de Pòe

Extra Virgin Veneto Grappa Oil Filtered 500ml

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The Product in Brief:

✓ Filtered Novello extra virgin olive oil

✓ Frantoio Povese, Leccino, Maurino, Moraiolo, Pendolino and Coratina

✓ Vintage 2024/2025

✓ Golden green with yellow reflections

✓ Acidity: 0.15

✓ Sweet and highly fresh oil

This Novello extra virgin olive oil is obtained from the first olives of the season.
Very fresh and young, it is bottled within a few hours to preserve its intense aromas and authentic flavour.
A touch of gold that enriches every dish with its vivacity and refinement.
The Oro de Pòe olive grove is located in Pove del Grappa, in a natural basin at the foot of Monte Grappa which is characterised by its mild and breezy climate, therefore relatively low in humidity.

For this reason it is called “Valley of Olives”.
The olive trees are treated by combining ancient traditional methods linked to the cycles of nature, with modern precautions and techniques.
All these characteristics make Oro de Pòe an oil full of personality.
A unique oil, because the conditions in which it comes to life are unique.
At our company, we dedicate great care and respect to the morphology and physiology of our olive trees.

We carry out targeted pruning to encourage "full-canopy arrangement", stimulating the alternation of branch production, an important characteristic of olive trees.
We use organic fertilizers that strictly comply with the national PAN regulations
for the integrated control of olive tree diseases.
We monitor the insects present in the olive grove using biological traps.

The olive grove is completely grassy and the permanent meadow surrounding it is enriched with aromatic essences that give our oil a characteristic fruity/herbaceous scent.
At the beginning of September, we begin to evaluate the ripeness index of the olives based on the different varieties present in our olive grove.
Based on these analyses, we decide the date and areas of the olive grove where to start the harvest, which usually takes place in the second half of October.

The harvest is done manually, with the help of manual facilitators, in full respect of the plants and their fruits.
The olives, thus intact and healthy, are taken to the mill on the same day, in order to reduce the interval between harvesting and pressing to a minimum.
We are committed to preserving the distinctive characteristics of our product.

Product Sheet:

Production area: Olive groves in Tenuta Gentile, in Pove del Grappa in the province of Vicenza

Cultivar: Frantoio Povese, Leccino, Maurino, Moraiolo, Pendolino and Coratina

Harvesting and Pressing: Hand-picked between October 10th and October 30th and milled within 24 hours, slow filtering and stored in stainless steel under protection

Packaging: Packed in dark green bottles 0.500 ml format with white box

Primary Analytical Data: Acidity 0.15

Color: Golden green with yellow reflections

Fragrance and Scents: A sweet and highly fresh oil, characterised by an important vegetal aromatic note with a predominance of fruity notes of green olive, cut grass and unripe almond.
The perception of spiciness is noted with a clear but pleasant presence of bitterness (high polyphenols) and freshness.
The flavour confirms the presence of green olives, fresh grass and unripe almonds.

Quality Certification: Oro de Pòe is produced according to the highest industry standards.

In the Kitchen: Due to its characteristics, we recommend using it raw on grilled and steamed vegetables, grilled chicken, grilled swordfish, risottos with legumes and in cooking on stews, braised meats, stewed tripe, baked guinea fowl, baked fish and turbot with potatoes.

Pove del Grappa is historically a small enclave of excellence between the Brenta River, the city of Bassano and the sacred mountain of the Fatherland, Monte Grappa.

It was the privileged residence of Venetian patricians in search of peace. Sculptors such as Orazio Marinali, the master of late Baroque statuary, drew their raw material from its stone quarries.

The tradition of stonecutters flourishes, a quality of wood that makes the difference, especially in domestic flooring, linked to the centuries-old cultivation of the olive tree. By contrast, the etymology of Pove refers to the Latin poveledum, or poplar.

The first traces of olive growing date back to 1263, as shown in the inventory of the properties of Ezzelino da Romano, the powerful lord of the time. The ecclesiastical authorities treasured it as a precious resource for the illumination and needs of worship.

In 1352, at the time of the investiture of the local parish, Paolo di Cherso received from the bishop of Padua, the debrandino, about fifteen olive trees. It was tradition that the church was owed a small tribute of oil as a share of that produced by the various producers.

In the area, oil underwent a period of relative oblivion until the end of the 1920s, with the prevalence of more profitable crops, such as vines and mulberries.

In the 1920s, interest in this cultivation returned, also encouraged by legislation aimed at incentivizing consortia.

The Pove area had favorable characteristics, good sun exposure, protection from cold northern currents, well-drained calcareous soil, a microclimate in which strong and weak points alternate. The sharp drops in temperature can be harmful to the harvest, as it is true that the winter climate can be a natural antagonist of the olive fly.

In the rural economy of the time, oil had its own well-defined niche. It contributed to the creation of panada, food to wean children or to console the elderly. To restore strength to mothers after giving birth, they were offered bread fried in oil and a good glass of red wine.

Pove del Grappa, view of the hairpin bendsIn the eighties, the change of pace, as Orio Mocellin, historic mayor of the town and now National Councilor of the Cities of Oil, well testifies. The olive tree has left the domestic dimension and has taken on a role more in line with the growing demand for quality that has rapidly spread throughout the country. Suffice it to say that in Italy there are three hundred and thirty olive-growing areas.

The Cities of Oil, created in 1994, are present in eighteen regions, without forgetting that Italy is the country in Europe with the most widespread heritage at a territorial level.

It is thanks to the foresight of some entrepreneurs in the area that the techniques for harvesting and processing olives have been refined, with early harvests and milling within the next day.

In 2001, the Veneto del Grappa oil received the DOP recognition, the following year the social cooperative's oil mill was inaugurated and in 2006 it entered the prestigious circuit of the Cities of Oil.

The results are tangible, the cultivation of olive trees in the last ten years has more than doubled, taking over from others that had replaced it over time.

Wandering around the small town you can perceive the change of pace, the olive tree has replaced magnolias and maritime pines in the street furniture, also because it is an ecologically ideal plant.

In the vision of local producers, ideas are not lacking and in collaboration with the local agricultural institute, first and foremost, the project of the Strada dell'Olio that from the Vicenza area leads to the Treviso area along the Pedemontana that ideally connects to the Prosecco roads.

Among the small heroic producers of the Conca degli Ulivi, the story of Tenuta Gentile Bizzotto is significant. Gentile was an entrepreneur in the textile industry who opened the new factory on the slopes of Grappa in the 1960s, framed by some century-old olive trees. He decided to keep that tradition alive and planted 200 olive trees for each of his two sons, and Francesco, one of them, thought of maintaining and renewing this family tradition, not only by taking care of his parents' olive grove but, together with his wife Katrien, dedicating 250 new plants to each of his three sons.

This oil is a concentrate of love. In the early 1960s, Cavalier Gentile Bizzotto and his wife Elisa chose to open the new headquarters of their fabric production factory in Pove del Grappa, a town in the province of Vicenza famous for its happy microclimate. They chose the land also because it includes an olive grove full of centuries-old trees, some three centuries old or more.

In the area where our olive grove is located and from the centuries-old plants of the native variety "Frantoio Povese" we collect and select the olives that, pressed in purity, give us this extra virgin olive oil, golden green to the sight, intense in aroma, balanced on the palate.

Here is born a limited selection of DOP extra virgin olive oil dedicated to a character of our territory that is confused between history and legend: CAIUS VETTONIUS MAXIMUS. a tribute to our tradition and its rich heritage of humanity. For this limited selection of Veneto del Grappa DOP Extra Virgin Olive Oil in half-liter bottles, all rigorously numbered by hand and certified by Mipaaf, we have created an ad hoc packaging.

Our limited edition Oro de Poe CAIUS VETTONIUS MAXIMUS Extra Virgin Olive Oil DOP Veneto del Grappa has been included in the “Slow Food Presidio Olio Extravergine Italiano” project.

The Presidia are Slow Food communities that work every day to save native breeds, varieties of vegetables and fruit, breads, cheeses, cured meats, traditional sweets from extinction and are committed to passing down production techniques and crafts, as well as taking care of the environment and enhancing landscapes, territories, cultures. Around 600 Presidia involve farmers, artisans, shepherds, fishermen and winemakers from 70 countries. The oil is subjected to chemical analysis to determine the organoleptic values that guarantee its quality, verifying that they fall within the parameters of the specification Olio Extra Vergine di Oliva DOP Veneto del Grappa.

This is also accompanied by a sensory analysis through a method called Panel Test, where properly trained and highly experienced tasters give sensory judgments during the tasting phase (spicy, fruity, sweet, bitter...). The combination of the results of these analyses and these tastings will be the basis for the evaluation of the oil.

Why is Oro de Pòe unique?
First of all, we must consider the geographical area in which Tenuta Gentile is located: one of the northernmost places in Europe where the olive tree grows and bears fruit.

The territory of Pove del Grappa is located in a natural basin at the foot of Monte Grappa and is characterized by a mild and breezy climate, therefore relatively low in humidity. For this reason it is called “Conca degli olivi”. The high quality of the product is also due to the composition of the cultivation soils which, located in what was once the widened bed of the Brenta river, are alluvial morainic, interspersed with sandy and marly-clayey bands.

Then you have to consider the type of olive trees. The native variety “Frantoio Povese” first and foremost, abundantly present in both the centenary plants and the younger ones, which produces olives whose oil is much more delicate than that provided by other varieties. Hence the inimitable taste. Finally, an essential role is played by the cultivation methods.

Under the expert guidance of agronomist Stefano Farronato, the olive trees are treated by combining ancient traditional methods linked to the cycles of nature, with modern precautions and techniques.

All these characteristics make Oro de Pòe an oil full of personality. We respect our olive trees both in their morphology and in their physiology. We carry out pruning aimed at facilitating a “full canopy arrangement” to encourage the alternation of branch production which is an important characteristic of olive trees. The fertilizers used are organic based and strictly comply with the national PAN specification for integrated control of olive tree diseases also with the use of biological traps to monitor the insects present in the olive grove.

The olive grove is completely grassed and the composition of the permanent meadow is rich in aromatic essences whose scents are then found in the fruity/herbaceous that characterizes our oil. At the beginning of September we begin to verify the ripening index of the olives according to the different varieties of plants present in our olive grove. On the basis of these analyses we decide the date and the areas of the olive grove in which to begin the harvest (generally in the second ten days of October).

We harvest by hand and with the help of manual facilitators, always respecting the plants and their fruits. The olives, so whole and healthy, are taken to the mill on the same day with the aim of bringing the moment of harvesting as close as possible to the moment of pressing: the effort is to guarantee the preservation of the peculiarities of the product.

The milling takes place within a few hours of harvesting at a mill that uses a continuous cycle pressing system in order to capture and retain the best organoleptic properties that the olives can transmit to the oil. Stability of its characteristics, favored by a high presence of peroxides, and richness of polyphenols are among the main quality parameters of extra virgin olive oil.

Store in a cool, dry place

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