In the center of the Mediterranean Sea you will find our island, Sardinia, home to the longest-living men on Earth. Isolated far from the pollution of the major cities of Europe - Sardinia has the cleanest air in all of Italy. The warm climate boasts an ideal environment for growing olives, meaning we don't need to use any special treatments. The Nuragic populations of Sardinia cultivated and extracted oil from the natural wild olive trees almost 4000 years ago.

Many of the Sardinian olive varieties are protected by the DOP recognition, including the variety we use, Nera Di Villacidro - which is a cultivar that has been used to win several global olive oil competitions.

Sardinia is classified as one of the world's five blue zones - an area of the world where people live longer lives than average. Sardinia boasts 10x more centenarians than the United States, and is particularly known for having the highest concentration of male centenarians. Enrico's own great-grandfather, who passed down his own olive grove (Seddus) to us lived to 101.