{"id":2393,"date":"2018-10-31T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frantoiosanmartino.com\/the-mill\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:38:54","slug":"the-mill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.frantoiosanmartino.com\/en\/the-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MILL"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The history of the mill, the history of extra virgin olive oil\n\n<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The San Martino Mill is an ancient family-run oil mill that produces quality olive oil from Taggiasca olives grown, harvested and processed according to a slow and traditional method<\/a> in the olive groves and in the historic building of Dolcedo, Imperia.<\/p>

The history of the ancient oil mill and that of the precious extra virgin olive oil go hand in hand from time immemorial, carrying on that peasant and oil mill tradition that is an integral part of western Liguria.<\/p>

It was 1932 when the San Martino Mill was bought by the great-grandparents of the current owners, Maurizio and Claudio: part of a family already rooted<\/strong> in the world of oil production, the great-grandparents travelled from Chiusavecchia, in the nearby Impero Valley, to take possession of the mill in Dolcedo, in the Prino Valley. The San Martino Mill, historic building well-known in the area, was already active at the time and produced high-quality oil for the various customers in the valley and beyond. In the following decades, the management of the mill changed hands, remaining however always in the family: it was the great-aunt Vincenza who, alone, for a long time took care of the production of olive oil and other products from the territory.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Today Maurizio and Claudio<\/strong>, heirs of the ancient mill activity, have decided to take the baton and continue the production already active within the typical Ligurian oil mill<\/strong>. Far from wanting to interrupt the long family tradition<\/strong>, the two young brothers decided to focus entirely on a slow, careful production, giving life to a precious collection of products linked to high-quality olive oil and Taggiasca olives.<\/strong><\/p>

Thanks to the decision to keep the production unchanged, the ancient family oil mill can still bear the name of the \u201cfirst cold pressing<\/strong>\u201d of olives, a centuries-old method of oil manufacturing that consists in pressing olives through two granite millstones driven by the wheel of a water mill \u2013 now replaced by electricity \u2013 and the subsequent extraction of oil through a hydraulic press which crushes the olive paste. The traditional production is accompanied by the recovery of land and crops, thanks to the upgrading of some hectares of family olive groves abandoned in time and now back to being active.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The PDO and the link to the territory\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Taggiasca variety and the extra-virgin olive oil\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The area of \u200b\u200bDolcedo and the surrounding valleys behind Imperia is famous for the production of the delicious and precious Taggiasca olive variety<\/strong>. The Taggiasca takes its name from the town of Taggia, where it was first introduced in the Eleventh century by the monks of San Colombano, coming from the monastery island of Lerino. The fruits ripen towards the end of January, have high yield and produce a very fine extra virgin olive oil, with a characteristic yellow colour, slightly fruity in flavour with a definite sweet sensation. Also, the organoleptic qualities of this cultivar make the olives so appetizing that they can be consumed in oil or in simple brine.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The San Martino Mill today\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Today the San Martino Mill can count on <\/span>its own local production of Taggiasca olives<\/b><\/span> from about 1000 plants in the territory of Dolcedo and another 1000 in the area of \u200b\u200bAndora. Parts of the estate are also the <\/span>historic building of the ancient oil mill<\/b><\/span> (which can be visited with a guided tour on reservation), partly dedicated to the production of oil and partly used as a holiday farm<\/a>, and a vegetable garden from which the local Ligurian products are available on our e-shop for direct sales.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The history of the mill, the history of extra virgin olive oil The San Martino Mill is an ancient family-run oil mill that produces quality olive oil from Taggiasca olives grown, harvested and processed according to a slow and traditional method in the olive groves and in the historic building of Dolcedo, Imperia. The history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frantoiosanmartino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frantoiosanmartino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frantoiosanmartino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantoiosanmartino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantoiosanmartino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantoiosanmartino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7788,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantoiosanmartino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2393\/revisions\/7788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frantoiosanmartino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}