Flos Olei 2024 (99/100)

Flos Olei 2023 (99/100)

Gambero Rosso La Stella 2022 for 10 consecutive years of Tre Foglie

Flos Olei 2022 - Farm of the Year

Featured in The New York Times (May 22, 2015) Italy’s Treasured Olive Oil, at the Source.

Pietro Intini’s Olivastra is a native variety growing around Alberobello, Locorotondo, and part of Valle d’Itria (400 metres above sea level); it has a medium-sized fruit with a bitter and spicy flavour and it is ripe when it turns red – reason why it gets the nick-name of ‘Red Olive’. Pietro tells us this a different olive from the Olivestream of the same name in Lazio.

Delightfully fruity, it immediately releases sensations of green apples, freshly-cut grass, oregano and almonds.

Initially spicy, it yields to tones of bitterness reminiscent of grass and almonds, then slowly leads to a well-balanced, unique taste.

It happily accompanies white meats, cooked greens, and also green and caprese salads and vinaigrettes.

Best by June 2025.