Most olive oil comes from nowhere in particular — a blend of regions, countries, and harvests with no single point on the map to call home. Posterino comes from San Procopio, a small village in the province of Reggio Calabria, at the southern tip of the Italian peninsula, where the olive tree has shaped the land and the livelihoods for as long as anyone can remember.
This is where the brothers Rocco, Rolando, and Michele Posterino founded the family frantoio in the 1950s, pressing the fruit of groves the family had already tended for generations before them. It is where the family began bottling its own oil in the 1980s rather than selling it on in bulk, and where, from 1996, the next generation — Rocco, Francesco, and Francesca — built the modern facilities that press our oil today.
Calabria produces a great share of Italy’s olives, yet its name rarely appears on the bottles it fills. We print ours proudly. When you pour Posterino, you are pouring one village, one estate, and one family — San Procopio, in every drop, for six generations.
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