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Agricola Fontanelle - Terre Di Siena
Producer: Riccardo Rosati
Location: Chianciano Terme in the Siena area of Tuscany
Certification: DOP Siena*
About Agricola Fontanelle
“One way to taste our oil is to make a simple bruschetta: Toast bread, drizzle oil, add a pinch of sea salt, brush on a little garlic with a fork. At our family table, we like to add our oil to everything. But please don’t cook with it. It would be a waste!”
- Riccardo Rosati
The Rosati family has grown olives and made olive oil, on the hills around Siena, for generations. Their olives are hand-picked and pressed into oil the very same day. On the Fontanelle farm, producing the highest quality olive oil is viewed as a vindication of the family’s deep Tuscan roots.
Welcome to the Fontanelle Farm
On three plots of land covering 55 hectares (approximately 135 acres), the Rosati family oversees the cultivation of 2,200 olive trees. Many of them have stood on this land for more than 100 years. In early November, family, friends and neighbors hand-pick what will become the golden goodness of Terre Di Siena olive oil.
In true farming tradition, Fontanelle also produces a limited amount of red wine and practices animal husbandry, raising the rare breed of pigs called Cinta Senese—the only native Tuscan pig bred to survive extinction.
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