2025 uitverkocht · oogst 2026 open · verstuurd najaar 2026
how thisstarted.
Pino brought olive oil up from Bagnara Calabra to Maastricht. Friends asked, then their friends asked. Eventually it became this.
a bottle at a time, on the kitchen counter.
Pino is from Bagnara Calabra, where his family makes olive oil. Every time he came up to Maastricht, he brought a bottle with him.
It didn't taste like what we'd been buying in the Netherlands. Peppery enough to catch at the back of the throat. Bitter in the way Italians like it.
For a few years, that's all it was. A bottle at a time, on the kitchen counter.
friends, then their friends.
We started giving the bottles to friends, and they started asking for more. Then their friends asked. After a while, what fit in a suitcase wasn't enough.
So we started shipping a small case at a time. Then a few cases. It wasn't a plan. It was just a way to keep up with the people who were already asking.
That's still mostly how it works. Most of what we sell goes to people who heard about it from someone they know.
one harvest a year.
There is one harvest a year, and we only sell what comes from our own grove. We've turned down offers to expand.
It would be straightforward to find a second supplier and double what we sell. We don't want to. The reason this oil tastes the way it does is that nothing about it has been scaled up.
The 2025 batch is sold out. The next harvest comes in autumn 2026, you can reserve it now, and we'll handle it the same way as this one.
the family in Bagnara.
The grove is in Bagnara Calabra. It's our family's, and we press the oil at our own mill.
The brand is named after Pino because he's the reason any of this oil ever made it up north. He's the one who started carrying it.
the 2026 harvest comes in autumn. we'll handle it the same way as this one.