The oil, green gold on our tables, is the precious gift of a widespread plant known all over the world and today a symbol of Mediterranean civilization.
But its history is lost over the centuries, over the millennia. It involves different spaces, peoples and cultures. It has marked the traditions and economies of entire communities.
The roots of this history go back to Palestine, in the Middle East where the oldest oil mills have been found, dating back to several millennia before Christ.
It then spread to Egypt, Crete and throughout the Mediterranean basin thanks to the Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians.
In fact it was the Greeks who introduced it to Italy around 1000 BC, while the Etruscans cultivated it and gave the name to its most precious fruit: eleiva, the oil.
The Romans then spread the techniques of cultivation, pressing and conservation in all the conquered countries.
Over the centuries the olive groves have thus become a characteristic of our country and above all of the Apulian landscape.
As the tools and archaeological finds unearthed over the years show, oil has always been present in the uses and rituals of everyday life.
Today for us oil is above all a precious food, healthy, genuine and tasty, an inevitable condiment on all our tables and typical of Mediterranean cuisine.
Above all, the Apulian land is generous in offering high quality plants, whose oil is appreciated all over the world.
Andria, then, is the Apulian city that can boast one of the richest olive and oil production.
This is where our oil comes from, a delicious flavor of our present and the result of the experience of the past.
A small family history, that of the Agresti family, which for a hundred years has kept the secret of the genuineness and delicacy of a pure and precious extra virgin olive oil.
