History
Orlandini and Pratesi, from a shared passion, together towards the future ...
Orlandini and Pratesi families, with a shared passion, together leading the future of the company.
The Tuscany olive growing has very ancient roots and probably it’s for this reason that on our hills often they meet realities working with time and passion for this precious land product: the Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Orlandini and Pratesi
We started our selection and extra Virgin olive oil trade in 1926, as it was the habit at that time, thanks to the venture of Antonio Pratesi
in Montalbano district, province of Pistoia located in the heart of Tuscany.
About twenty years later, the farmer and manager of the most known farms of that area, Arrigo Orlandini, thanks to his high agronomy expertise, undertook the same trade in olive growing field in Montemurlo area. Particularly, he oversaw the agrarian direction of the Beccian family farm, still working today with a biological certification producing , in addition of grain , wine and vegatables, excellent oils thanks to his 18.000 plants and property olive oil mill placed in the historical village called Rocca di Montemurlo.
Today, we, the heirs of Antonio and Arrigo, are following the business carrying on the excellent values in quality research of the product in different Italian regions, but also beyond the borders. We particularly refer to the Hellenic and Portuguese productions.
Mindful of Arrigo Orlandini teaches, we are aware that oil is not “made” into an olive mill, but here it is simply extracted. Product is present in each single olive. In this way we can affirm that to “make oil” , is, above all, the farmer. It’s for this reason we work hard following production and olives harvest, and later the next extraction product step.
Let’s make some culture ...
The several olive mills we work with, both in Italy and abroad, are fitted out with different current technologies , going through the ancient and traditional “molazze” way , until the more modern and quicker constant flow methods. Each of these ones represent the best features in relation with the olives volume really available , to their variety and to the particularity we want to give to our oil.
Oils we offer on the market come especially from the following olive varieties , typical of its origin area:
MORAIOLO; FRANTOIO O FRANTOIANA; LECCINO; MAURINO; PENDOLINO; LECCIO DEL CORNO; MORO DI CICIGNANO; BIANCA DI CICIGNANO; CASALIVA; GRIGNANO; FAVAROL; TAGGIASCA; RAZZOLA; PIGNOLA; BIANCHERA; GENTILE; PERANZANA O PROVENZALE; CORATINA; OGLIAROLA BARESE O DEL GARGANO; NOCELLARA DEL BELICE – ETNEA O MESSINESE; TONDA IBLEA; BIANCOLILLA; CAROLEA.
All of these can look like a lot, but actually they are a very small part, actually in Italy we have more than 500 olive varieties.
In Greece we work especially with oils coming from olive variety KORONEIKI and MASTOIDIS, while in Portugal usually we prefer extracted oils from ARBEQUINA; ROSMANINHO; GALEGA E LENTISCA types.
Our habits ...
In our packaging headquarters in Montemurlo, cask raw material is bottled following homogeneous batches , or after suitable blends to give a specific identity and a further appreciation of the product.
What we offer to the market is both packaged oil through our machineries , and other ones we directly pack in production olive oil mills.
Oils we obtain on national territory , in compliance with laws in force, can become “DOP” or “IGP”, the well-known territorial origin specification.
If we choose to pack without this certification, oil is anyway declared 100% Italian , regardless of provenance region.
In order to do justice to our product and to distinguish it from the inevitable consequences of the big markets trade strategies , we are constantly looking for the numerous features every country offer us. In this way we can bring them directly on end user tables, through our packages , that with the maximum frankness and clearness of information, contain also territorial origin of EU oils.
And it’s important to make investments…
Our warehouse building is, for a part, dedicated to cask oil in tank, directly managed by property systems in order to curate each step and to follow the product until its final destination.
Nutritional values
Extra virgin olive oil is considered the best one, the most suitable for our nutrition.
Quality research
We select production areas and oils, paying particular attention on the different steps of the process and to the rules of environment respect .
Quality certifications
Orlandini oil mill is certificated by the most important quality control organizations.
