com/it/frantoio-pilota" target="_blank" title="Castelvetrano Pilot Oil Mill" rel="noopener noreferrer">Belice pilot mill , specifically designed together with Pieralisi , a leading company in the production of crushing machines, has made a strong contribution to research, continuously studying how to improve crushing techniques and therefore the finished product, to maintain high biophenols.
EXPERIMENT TO LEARN
The first product we wanted to create was lemon oil. The challenge was to create a new, healthy, fresh product, a non-chemically flavored oil that exploited the richness of essential oils present in the peel of lemons , which in Sicily are grown next to olive groves. Once we found a small miller willing to throw himself into this adventure, the experimentation began. At the beginning, the lemon splashed all over the walls of the mill, so much so that someone suggested adding straw to the olives in the first phase of milling. Obviously, the proposal was followed and we tried to slow down the "speed" of the millstones to find a balance that could work well for both the olives and the lemons .
RECIPES THAT CHANGE EVERY YEAR
Since then, every year the recipe for our dressing changes. The right balance between olives and lemons is obtained by taking into account the amount of water present in the fruit, the temperature and the climate. For this reason the product is never the same from one year to the next, it carries with it the rhythm of the time of that year.
When the transition from milling to crushing was made ‒ that is, from the millstones to the continuous cycle crusher ‒, it was a matter of starting over and finding new balances. Not only that, it was decided to invest even more in research and to try new recipes, always starting from the olives that are annually considered suitable for this type of processing: today, in addition to the lemon dressing , Coppini Arte Olearia offers the Marzuddu Mandarin dressing , the garlic dressing , the basil oil, the red and green chili pepper oil and the rosemary oil. All these products have guaranteed supply chain traceability for both the olives and the pressed essences.
But the research does not stop here, and with each campaign Coppini tries to always propose new condiments from contemporary pressing .
Always natural products , never chemically flavoured, in which extra virgin olive oil is combined with the essential oils of other essences, thus maintaining a freshness that is rare for this type of product.
