A grove,

a family,

a first pressing.

"We are Vincenzo and Sara."

Vincenzo's grandfather planted the first sixty trees in 1962, the year he came back from working the coal in Belgium. He chose Carolea because it could take the wind off the Sila. He chose this hillside because his father had been buried at the bottom of it.

We took over the grove in the spring of 2019. We pressed our first oil last December — twenty-eight cases, all for family. This is the first year we are bottling for anyone else.