Overview
Headquarters
Ragusa, Sicilia
Tenuta Chiaramonte, for different peculiarities, is a very special company in the “Oil World”, and our Extra Virgin Olive Oil too, in its variants, is the result of our passion and dedication to the olive trees and to our tradition, intense and exciting when opening the bottle and its fragrances pervade the senses, tasting it with closed eyes you can perceive the characteristics of this sun-kissed land, sanguine, strong in character, full of perfumes and atmospheres as well as in the collective imagination. Tenuta Chiaramonte is located in a dominant position in the beautiful Irminio Valley, where You can enjoy a "stunning" view overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. In this natural oasis, Tenuta Chiaramonte counts 99 hectares of organic cultivation, 16,000 olive trees, 7 cultivars, state of the art facility and oil mill, temperature controlled room and stainless steel silos with nitrogen, bottling area, manual harvest with very accurate selection of olives in the field of olives to guarantee the highest quality of the product. We don’t buy olives or oil from anyone, we grow, we collect, we crush olives and we bottle oil, all this in completely autonomy, because we believe in this way of production, we follow and wait all year round the path of nature, to get our product. We produce high quality extra virgin olive oil, organic because we believe in nature and in a return to ancient traditions; in a world that’s now more competitive than qualitative, even if there’s a timid change towards quality, we believe in the properties of genuine extra virgin olive oil. We want to educate people to the use of this "fruit juice", to tell them its characteristics and its very unknown exceptional healthful properties, we want to bring out its dominant features when used for cooking. Only in this way extra virgin olive oil can be the protagonist simply relishing a dish, with a new taste, finally exalted. Our Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a completely and absolutely “handmade” product.
