Prodotti Tipici della Basilicata
Welcome in our lands
About us
Our extra virgin olive oil is a product obtained with a yellow colour and greenish reflection, with a rich taste and for its high digestibility. It is suggested not only to be used for raw and cooked dishes, but is also necessary for a good nutrition, above all in the young. The passion for our land leads us not only to produce and trade a high quality product and nutritional value but engages us in the exploitation and promotion of several typical products of the Vulture, not still appreciated and well-known.
The value
These lands are so generous and so fertily thanks to the important contribution of Mount Vulture which, during its last eruptions, left enormous biological riches in the soil. They are traditionally dedicated to the production of olives, vines, chestnut and mineral waters. The olives-groves situated between 500 and 700 metres of altitude, in lands which do not allow the use of mechanical tools, make chemical treatment hard and they offer a natural biological product without any human forcing.
A Mediterranean climate supplies an ideal alternation of seasons and a temperature which greatly helps the olive craps in the area. The most widely cultivated olive is the Vulture Ogliarola variets, a small tree with a yield of olives between 20/25 kilos per unit and a yield of oil comparatively lower, about 14/18 kilos per hundred kilograms of olives.
A ritual
In our land oil culture goes us back throughout the centuries and it is in Melfi, the most important city in the area, where our family operates. In our oil presses the oil is processed and trated with the same care and love as a person who prepares it for personal use. This practice has been repeated by our company, from November to January, every year since 1937 when our first generation began olive cultivation.
The Vulture area growers thus repay our passion year after year and after providing for their own needs, they entrust their olives to our oil presses. This respect the criteria of the oil tradition.
TERRE LUCANE®
SILPA S.r.l. dei F.lli SINIGAGLIA Via Bagnitelli, 4/A Melfi (PZ) Italy Tel. (0972) 24692 202992 Fax 252843