A Taste of Umbria: a single-varietal artisan oil from the region's favored olive, the Moraiolo.

Paul searched Umbria's most hallowed olive presses for years in pursuit of importing the finest olive oils from all twenty Italian regions.

To listen to 4th generation farmer and olive oil producer Marco Viola explain his passion for his craft is to understand the deeply entwined relationship that Italy's most passionate artisans have with their land and their devotion to preserving timeless traditions in the name of quality.

"I am proud to say I am a farmer," proclaims Marco, "I have my roots in the land which I deeply love because it is from it that I have received all that I know and possess."

Slow Food's guide to Italian olive oils lauds Il Sincero as expressing, "three fundamental elements at their best: character, intensity and richness. [It imparts] an intense olive aroma with the clear herbaeous traces and intense notes of green apple, artichoke and bay leaves....A rich full body and the flavor is increasingly intense with a well-balanced expression of lingering bitter and peppery tones on the finish."

Harvest date: 2005-2006