the revenge of Emilian and Bolognese extra virgin olive oil

A broken tradition. The story of oil in Emilia-Romagna is a story that was lost a few centuries ago, due, as we would say today, to sudden climate change. The archives tell of an exceptional and prolonged cold in the first decades of the eighteenth century which blocked the development of plants, causing the olive tree to disappear from our lands. A production which, from Emilia to Romagna, would even seem to date back to the Villanovan age