PREMIUM QUALITY ITALIAN EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OILOLEIFICIO SOCIALE DI CASSANO DELLE MURGE. We are an Italian Cooperative producer of premium quality, 100% Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Our Company was founded in 1959 by Luca Gentile, president until 1993, together with other 12 farmers. Today our Cooperative has 220 members, 95% of whom residing in Cassano delle Murge.In the early years after our founding, we carried on our production in a private oil mill in Cassano delle Murge, while the current production structure was built only in the early Sixties. The production facility nowadays is extending on a 3.000 square meters area, 1.300 of which are covered. From 1999 till 2002, the structure has been modernized and enlarged. Moreover, a meeting, presentation and tasting rooms have been equipped, able to accommodate up to 150 people.Our extra virgin olive oil is produced exclusively from olives grown and harvested in our Producers' plantations and later crushed and processed in our olive oil mill, a few kilometres from the fields. In this way, since 1959, our Oleificio Sociale Cassano delle Murge produces and markets extra virgin olive oil guaranteed by our 220 Associated Producers. We strongly believe in the short supply chain strategy, which guarantees price stability and competitiveness, avoids intermediaries overcharges, and more important brings to your table a genuine, fresh and carefully selected and controlled product, directly from our 130.000 olive trees. Moreover, the process of cold extraction gives our products the typical and unique scents and flavour, colour and nutritional values, approved by the European Community. Our extra virgin olive oil rich in antioxidant and sensory properties, which makes it the perfect and ever present component of the Mediterranean diet.We produce 3 Conventional product LinesGRAN TRADIZIONE Filtered traditional stronger taste Extra Virgin Olive OilGRAN CLASSICO Classic softer taste Extra Virgin Olive OilGRAN TRADIZIONE Unfiltered traditional taste Extra Virgin Olive Oiland 2 Organic product Lines ORGANIC Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Organic FarmingORGANIC and P.D.O. Extra Virgin Olive Oil Protected Designation of Origin Bari ApuliaGRAN CLASSICOFruity scent reminiscent of green olives, light, with a fresh almond aftertaste. This extra virgin olive oil has a sweet taste with a slightly spicy notes. Harmonious and well balanced on the palate with fruity finish. Perfect to season any kind of food meet, fish, appetizers, carpaccio and soup.GRAN TRADIZIONE UnfilteredFruity, extra virgin olive oil with intense artichoke olfactory notes and hints of fresh almond. Intense flavor, faintly bitter and spicy, due to high level of polyphenols. The appearance is raw, unfiltered. This type of extra virgin olive oil is ideal in many culinary preparations: bruschetta bread, roasted meat, pasta, vegetables and Apulian specialties like Orecchiette e cime di rapa.GRAN TRADIZIONEFruity extra virgin olive oil with delicate olfactory sensation of artichoke and fresh almond. Faintly bitter and spicy to taste. Ideal for mashed fava beans and cicorie, ragu, steamed lampascioni and grilled meat.ORGANICOrganic extra virgin olive oil certified by the Italian institute ICEA, Institute for Ethical and Environmental Certification. Mild fruity scent reminiscent of green olives with hints of herbaceous aromas. Sweet flavour with a slightly spicy taste. Suitable for raw dishes and many culinary preparations.