Càrn Estate · Vintage MMXXVI

Decantedfrom a singlegrove.

One grove on high ground, marked by a cairn. One pressing a year. First-press extra virgin oil, decanted and numbered by the bottle.

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The Estate

We press once a year, and the whole year answers for a single afternoon.

Càrn is one grove on a south-facing ridge, marked at its highest point by a cairn of dry stones stacked by hand. The trees are old, low-yielding, and left mostly alone. There is no second estate and no blended reserve.

Each autumn the fruit comes in over a few days and goes to the mill within hours, pressed cold and unfiltered. What the harvest gives is what the year gives. We bottle it, number it, and let the next twelve months begin again.

The Pressing · Vintage MMXXVI

The whole year, settled into a single fill line.

Pressed
6 November MMXXVI
Method
Cold, first, unfiltered
Cultivar
Frantoio · Leccino
Free acidity
0.16%
Polyphenols
412 mg/kg
Yield
3,140 bottles
Yield3,140bottles · numbered

From the grove

The photo essay
First-press olive oil sheeting off a steel tank in raking light.I
First press, the morning the tanks were opened. November MMXXVI.