Villa Branzino

Villa Branzino · Umbria, Italy

Harvest 2025

No harvest

The year le mosche won.

The year

About 2025 Harvest

We'll be honest, when we got here we knew nothing about olive trees. We're Americans. We thought olives just sort of happened. Then in 2025 the olive fly, le mosche as everyone here calls them, found every single olive on every single tree. All of it. We didn't make a drop of oil that year.

It was humbling, and a little embarrassing, but it was the best lesson we could have had. We spent the year following Fulvio around the grove asking a hundred questions, about pruning, about timing, about keeping the fly away, and we finally understood how much care goes into a single bottle. That care is the reason there's a 2026 harvest at all.

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