Origins
A passion that comes from afar.
Five generations, the same Maremma. From the first farm bought in Campagnatico to the fresh start after the frost of 1985.
Late nineteenth century
Great-great-grandfather Ciriaco Guerrini, who lives in Florence, chooses Maremma and buys land with farmhouses around Campagnatico.
Cereals and olives are grown, part of the land raises livestock, and the farms are run by sharecroppers.
The mill in the village
Great-grandfather Aroldo expands the land, plants more olive trees and opens the mill in the village. Grandfather Alberto then helps the farm grow.
Trade was not global, and making a product known from a small town in the wild Maremma was hard.
−23 °C
The frost of 1985
The great frost of 1985 drops the temperature to −23 °C and 90% of the trees die.
It is time to start again: Giovanni, our father, decides that the hills will turn silver olive again.
The olive tree takes time.
It is a plant that accompanies generations and outlives them in memory. It needs care and attention, and time: at least ten or fifteen years before it bears fruit, twenty to reach maturity.
Today
20,000 trees, with a farmhouse that hosts the farm stay.
Giovanni, our father, and we, Francesco and Gianluca, carry on this unique product of our land with passion.
