Frantoio Bonamini Gemuto Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2023

Frantoio Bonamini is in the Illasi Hills near Verona in the Veneto region. Giancarlo and Sabrina Bonamini bring energy and careful skill to their olive oil production. This production, Gemuto, celebrates the 160th birthday of Italian poet and novelist, Gabriele D’Annunzio. D’Annunzio’s estate, known as Vittoriale degli Italiani, is in the hillside town of Gardone Riviera, above Lake Garda in the province of Brescia, in Lombardia. Gemuto is the extra virgin olive oil produced from the hundreds years old olive trees surrounding the Vittoriale Degli Italiani, which is a group of buildings, roads, squares, an outdoor theatre, gardens and streams built since 1921 in Gardone Riviera, on the shores of Lake Garda, by the famous Italian poet Gabriele d’Annunzio in memory of the “inimitable life” of the poet-soldier and the Italian endeavor during World War I. Frantoio Bonamini participated in the challenge, to produce olive oil from the 500 trees - hundreds of years old -- surrounding the estat