Ursini - Tandem - Intense-Fruity Flavour - Blend of Cultivar - Organic Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 500 ml

Ursini - Great Oils and Great Specialties

Before being a company, Ursini is a family, taking care of olive orchards and mastering the art of pruning for centuries. Today, such knowledge has enriched and expanded. Ursini produces a wide range of Extra Virgin Olive Oils, “Pestati”, Delicacies in Evo and Pasta Sauces. All these products have been part of the Mediterranean diet for centuries, but Ursini have been able to give them a new twist. The company proudly offers the highest quality products with the most elegant packaging. Ursini is keen to work with strong commitment and great respect for traditions, reinterpreting them through innovation, excellence, and elegance.

The Perfect Balance Between Experience and Innovation 

Ursini oils express unique qualities such as the delicate scent, the soft taste and the velvety texture. Unique products, connected to both know-how and the typical Ursini olive mill avantgarde. In fact, the latest generation technologies allow to keep better the authentic flavours. The Ursini Master oil imposes to separate the different olives cultivars already on the harvest field to create extraordinary monocultivar  and refined blends oils of various types.

Specialities as Much as Uniqueness

The Ursini extra virgin oil family is a family where each element has its accurate, unique and personal dimension. “Tandem” and “Opera Mastra” EVOOs are the diamond point of the oil production thanks to their limited production. The “Solos” EVOOs have an original taste and we consider them a tribute to our local olives varieties thanks to the accurate milling of the single cultivar. “Tandem” EVOO is the result of the desire to create an entirely higher oil, using blends carefully personalised for restaurateur. The high quality is a rule for any type of oil consumption too, such as our “Opera Mastra” whose name already promises the excellence !

The Key Ingredients: Intuition, Passion and Sense

Our mission is to create a higher extra virgin olive oil. Ursini extra virgin olive oil is the expression of the Master oil pride and dedication who has made the excellence his distinctive characteristic. Passion, experience and dedication are the base for an excellent product, which is able to enhance the quality of the most ancient and noble fruit of our land. Olives come from the expert hands of the farmers that we know since years.

Extra Virgin Olive Oils

Great oils, Great delight.

Tandem - Intense-Fruity Flavour

Ursini's Tandem extra virgin olive oil is a Medium Fruity obtained from the skilful blend of the Gentile di Chieti and Peranzana olive varieties, native of these areas of Abruzzo. The olive groves are located in close proximity to the localities of San Giovanni in Venere di Fossacesia and the Piano Favaro area of ​​Rocca San Giovanni. They are plants of about 30-35 years of age and produce a yield of about 15 liters per 100 kg of olive. Hand-picked with the help of small shakers, the olives are placed in 20-kg perforated boxes and sent to the mill within 4 hours.

They are then immediately processed in the company crusher, consisting of hammer and kneading crusher, sealed in the absence of oxygen, and cold extracted (23 ° C). This oil does not undergo filtration but only carries out two decantings to be bottled in February. The Ursini Tandem Oil represents the union of the two most typical varieties of Abruzzo, in its perfumes we find the fragrance and the structure of the dishes of this magnificent area of ​​Italy.

Variety

Gentile from Chieti 65 %, Peranzana 35 %.

About The Olive Grove

The Gentile from Chieti olive grove lies near San Giovanni in Venere Abbey, in Fossacesia, and the Peranzana, olive groves lie at Piana Favaro in Rocca San Giovanni. They are quite young olive groves, on average aged 30-35.

Return

On average 15 litres of extra virgin olive oil per 100 Kg of olives.

Harvest Period

First week of November (Gentile), second week of November the other varieties.

Harvest and Processing

Harvest by hand with the help of little shakers, olives are put in 20 Kg boxes with holes and taken to our mill within 4 hours. They are immediately worked at the oil mill, with a hammer olive-press and closed tight kneading machines, in absence of oxygen, then extracted with chill.

Produced Quantity

About 8.000 bottles 100 ml and 12.000 500 ml

Conservation

It develops in small steel cisternes. After decanting twice and without filters, the olive oil is bottled in February.

Additional Information

Appareance

Vivid green.

Smell

Intense scent of artichoke and green vegetables.

Taste

Strong to the palate, full-bodied on the tongue, long-persistent and ending with slightly bitter tracks.