Azienda Agricola Monte Arso

On the slopes of Etna, in Ragalna, Azienda Agricola Monte Arso cultivates its sole denomination, Monte Etna DOP, from an olive grove that the Moschetto family has tended since 1954 at an altitude of 980 meters. In 2004, the next generation formalized the business under its current name, reviving and relaunching the village's olive oil tradition on the southern side of the volcano. Here, the Nocellara dell'Etna cultivar finds the ideal conditions in the mineral-rich volcanic soil to express itself with clarity. The result is a vivid green oil with marked herbaceous notes and a medium-intensity fruitiness, speaking directly of the geology and altitude from which it originates. The extract does not seek the reassuring softness of the plains, but rather the bitter and spicy tension that the volcanic altitude imparts to the olive. Thus, a complete story of terroir is concentrated in a single origin: the altitude, the crumbled lava rock, and the hand of a family that has measured the seasons on the same slope for seventy years.

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