About Colline Laurentine

In the hills of Sannio, one of the most important olive growing areas of southern Italy unfolds today, with a thousand-year tradition of excellence in oil production. Sannio, a territory magically linked to this traditional cultivation, expresses its great olive vocation in the scents and unique suggestions of its products. The origin of this magic is in the climatic conditions favorable and in the heritage of ancient varieties of oil, uniquely present in this territory. San Lorenzo Maggiore is well placed in this magical setting of nature. Sannio oil, rediscovered by recent studies and research, has reserved pleasant surprises to consumers, operators and experts, quickly gaining a position at the top of the national quality landscape. The effort made in recent years to enhance the ancient varieties, in rationalizing the techniques of collection and transport in the mill, in innovating the extraction and preservation systems of the product to preserve all the aromas of olives, it has increased the organoleptic qualities of the production olearia, which today, can express the typical aromas of the main varieties of the Benevento area. The varieties in question are L'Ortolana, the nettle and the Racioppella. Read their story