Alto Tavoliere · Puglia
Where the land
becomes oil.
In a triangle of Apulian land between San Severo, Torremaggiore and San Paolo di Civitate the Peranzana is born — a native cultivar from which L’Olio del Poeta comes to life.
The land of the Peranzana
Plain, sun, wind.
The Alto Tavoliere is marked by flat terrain and a warm, temperate climate, ideal for growing olive groves: centuries-old trees sculpted by the force of the wind and the passing of the ages.
The cultivar
The Peranzana,
a green ink.
The oil drawn from centuries-old trees in the countryside of San Severo, the Peranzana is a native variety with a unique flavour and beneficial properties: a pure, non-hybrid cultivar that owes its special organoleptic qualities and aromatic range to itself alone.
Capitanata · historic cartography
A land as ancient
as the olive tree.
Our land has its roots in history: the Capitanata — the ancient province that sixteenth-century atlases already depicted with care — has been a land of olive trees and oil for centuries.
Generation after generation, from father to son, the olive trees are the umbilical cord that binds the Toma family to their land in Apulia.
“My olive trees — silent companions kissed by the Sun and stirred by the wind — are pens from which a green ink flows.”
Lucio Toma — teacher of letters and poet