The farm

Ciao,

Batch 01 comes from Il Bottaccio, a fourth-generation family estate in the Maremma, on the Tuscan coast.

Ermelindo and Letizia founded it in 1925. A century later it is run by their great-grandson, Luca. Same land, same slow work, a hundred years apart. Nothing about the place is in a hurry: four olive varieties, Frantoiano, Leccino, Leccio del Corno and Maurino, grown together in the same grove and pressed together, the way it has been done there for a century.

And it had competition. Tuscany is full of good oil, and we tasted our way across the region, estate after estate, looking for the one we could put our name under. What ended the search was not the story. It was the glass. Green, alive, with a finish that made us stop comparing.

When we stood in that grove just a few weeks ago, what struck us most was the quiet. Nothing rushed, nothing for show, a family doing what it has done since 1925.

The family cares about the same things we do: the land first, the year as it comes, and no shortcuts between the grove and the bottle. Every bottle of Batch 01 carries their century of work. We just gave it a number, and one of those numbers will be yours.

Next letter: the land itself, and how to taste it in the oil.

George

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