Frantoio Pasquini

How is olive oil made?
Follow our short visit at the olive mill.
The process begins at the large receiving bins called tramoggia where the olives have been deposited after being hand picked and transported in the old style bags called "balle" or in modern plastic containers. A conveyor belt moves them along to the washing station: which is the largest existing machine in Italy for the removal of leaves and branches and cleaning of the olives.
The olives then slide down the scivolo and are transported to the frangitore where they are pressed by rotating hammers that are placed within the internal part of a special grill. The gramola works the olive paste that has been obtained and then puts them through the centrifuge process which separates the seed, water and oil found in the olives. Finally, new olive oil streams out of the separator and is ready to be tasted and eaten immediately