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The life of every Sicilian is intertwined with olive oil.The production of Nocellara del Belice is our family tradi- tion, a tradition that dates back to 1600 A.D. . It has the most beautiful memories: racing through the olive groves, falling and skinning my knees, the taste of bitter olives in the mouth.The olive harvest was a time of gathering, of parties and stories, of many families with the same origins. Were children played carefree, eating bread and fresh-milled oil; so spicy, yet so good.Today it is still special: green, golden, and fragrant. Fortunately, even today, we have the same desire to play, the same light-heartedness, and joy of the past.
"It is my grandmother’s name Margherita, called Gheta by me and her grandchildren.They are her trees at Nocellara del Belice and so many memo- ries for me. Of her, of us and of this land so familiar to me, that is the Valle del Belice." Arianna Occhipinti
PRODUCTION ZONE: CASTELVETRANO, CONTRADA LATOMIE VARIETY: NOCELLARA DEL BELICE
AGRICULTURE: NATURAL
TRAINING SYSTEM: UMBRELLA NETTING SYSTEM
AVERAGE AGE OF TREES: 80 YEARS
HARVESTING: BEGINNING IN NOVEMBER, MANUAL HARVEST
EXTRACTION: CONTINUOUS COLD CYCLE
STORAGE: IN STAINLESS STEEL VATS
APPEARANCE: RADIANT
COLOR: GOLDEN YELLOW WITH GREEN HUES
AROMA: INTENSE AND FRESH
TASTE: FRUITY AND BALANCED
DENSITY: MEDIUM-HIGH
THE PRODUCER:
Everything begun seventeen years ago in the ”Fossa di Lupo” area. A place where the land in the evening becomes redish and is brushed by the Ibleian winds and leans on one side of a road: the County Road 68. A county road like many others, but with a special past. It was once a stone narrow path; three thousand years ago it connected Gela to Kamarina, it travelled- as it still does - through the Cerasuolo di Vittoria roads hills and from Caltagirone continued to Catania and Lentini. There, squeezed between heaven and earth, that road also marked my destiny. In the first hectare of land next to my palmento, in Fossa di Lupo District, others followed. The firm grew into the Bombolieri, Pettineo and Bastonaca Districts, Yet, everything is still the same as in the first year. Bombolieri is also located on the County Road 68. The vineyard here enlarges and it stoops onto the limestone base of the area, the vineyards are twenty years old if not more, and the court on which the wineries raise themselves is able to trap all the strength of the Ibleian sun. Nowhere else I can feel to have been walking on a coherent road. Never as in Bombolieri I can feel that I'm carrying with me past and future at the same time. It was the oldest wine route ever documented. That road was used by generations of farmers to bring their own wine to the coast.
The life of every Sicilian is intertwined with olive oil.The production of Nocellara del Belice is our family tradi- tion, a tradition that dates back to 1600 A.D. . It has the most beautiful memories: racing through the olive groves, falling and skinning my knees, the taste of bitter olives in the mouth.The olive harvest was a time of gathering, of parties and stories, of many families with the same origins. Were children played carefree, eating bread and fresh-milled oil; so spicy, yet so good.Today it is still special: green, golden, and fragrant. Fortunately, even today, we have the same desire to play, the same light-heartedness, and joy of the past.
"It is my grandmother’s name Margherita, called Gheta by me and her grandchildren.They are her trees at Nocellara del Belice and so many memo- ries for me. Of her, of us and of this land so familiar to me, that is the Valle del Belice." Arianna Occhipinti
PRODUCTION ZONE: CASTELVETRANO, CONTRADA LATOMIE VARIETY: NOCELLARA DEL BELICE
AGRICULTURE: NATURAL
TRAINING SYSTEM: UMBRELLA NETTING SYSTEM
AVERAGE AGE OF TREES: 80 YEARS
HARVESTING: BEGINNING IN NOVEMBER, MANUAL HARVEST
EXTRACTION: CONTINUOUS COLD CYCLE
STORAGE: IN STAINLESS STEEL VATS
APPEARANCE: RADIANT
COLOR: GOLDEN YELLOW WITH GREEN HUES
AROMA: INTENSE AND FRESH
TASTE: FRUITY AND BALANCED
DENSITY: MEDIUM-HIGH
THE PRODUCER:
Everything begun seventeen years ago in the ”Fossa di Lupo” area. A place where the land in the evening becomes redish and is brushed by the Ibleian winds and leans on one side of a road: the County Road 68. A county road like many others, but with a special past. It was once a stone narrow path; three thousand years ago it connected Gela to Kamarina, it travelled- as it still does - through the Cerasuolo di Vittoria roads hills and from Caltagirone continued to Catania and Lentini. There, squeezed between heaven and earth, that road also marked my destiny. In the first hectare of land next to my palmento, in Fossa di Lupo District, others followed. The firm grew into the Bombolieri, Pettineo and Bastonaca Districts, Yet, everything is still the same as in the first year. Bombolieri is also located on the County Road 68. The vineyard here enlarges and it stoops onto the limestone base of the area, the vineyards are twenty years old if not more, and the court on which the wineries raise themselves is able to trap all the strength of the Ibleian sun. Nowhere else I can feel to have been walking on a coherent road. Never as in Bombolieri I can feel that I'm carrying with me past and future at the same time. It was the oldest wine route ever documented. That road was used by generations of farmers to bring their own wine to the coast.