Oleificio
Guccione
Oleificio Guccione was born in 1966 in Chiaramonte Gulfi, a small baroque village in the heart of the Iblei Mountains, made famous over the years for the goodness of its oil, which Luigi Veronelli considered “the best on the island”. The company was founded by Giuseppe and Vito´s grandparents, initially as an oil mill serving the olive growers in the area and always with a focus on quality and innovation. Oleificio Guccione was the first in the territory, in 1990, to abandon the traditional extraction system presses and to focus on processing in a continuous cycle.
Vito and Giuseppe Divita, two brothers in their thirties are today leading the company with the desire to produce a contemporary, fine olive oils that are able to express the full potential of their territory.
Territory
Sicily has always been intimately linked to oil and olive cultivation. The presence of many varieties of olives on the island is a sign of a tradition that starts from far away. So many in fact, were the people who for centuries have inhabited and dominated, attracted by its size and centrality in the mediterranean, as well as its beauty. Silent witnesses of these passages in the territory, in particular in the valley of Chiaramonte Gulfi, are millenary trees characterized by large trunks that intert on themselves, the extraordinary “Saracen olive trees”. Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil displays strong identities, as stratified by the legacies of each domination.
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