2006
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Festa dell'olio


Every tree receives tender loving attention

Pat decides its easier to bring pieces of the tree to her rather than her to the tree!

What is Daniella looking at in the tree?

Jack's in there somewhere!

Some of those olives are darned hard to get



The loneliness of the long-distance olive harvester?

Harvesting basket hanging handily on a branch

Picnic lunch for the workers

Basket cases :-)

Francesco comes over to supervise the antics of the workers

Lunch at the frantoio:L to R: Viv, Annette, Jane, Anna, Clive, Greg, Cheesy, Pam and Rachel

Lunch amongst the vats

Stone grinding wheels mulch down the olives

Olive mulch being churned

The frantoio himself with Tom and Cheesy, with a big pile of 'sansa' which what is left over after the olives have been processed into oil.

First golden drops of the 2006 vintage!

Bucket filling up nicely

Bottling the 2006 'Goccia d'oro' di Colletta

Francesco holds aloft the 'prima bottiglia' - the first bottle.

And to finish off, the bottles are cleaned and labelled.