MASSERIA RAINO

Region: Lazio

Company name: Azienda Livio Ialongo Sas

Location: Itri (Latina)

Historical context and birth of the company

The Masseria is located in Contrada Raino, in the municipality of Itri, in the province of Latina, between the Aurunci mountains and the sea of Gaeta and Sperlonga.

On the slopes of Mount Civita, the area is known for its famous and ancient Marian sanctuary.

The name of the itrana cultivar derives from the production area, famous for its dual vocation: it is in fact suitable for brine, but from it an oil is also obtained that offers scents of remarkable freshness centered on the tones of thistle and green tomato.
The Raino company was established in 2012 but has ancient origins, its plant is centuries old and is owned by a family that has been growing olive groves and producing oil for many generations.

Oliocentrica was the first to promote the Raino project in the area, presenting it both in the shop (Evo, the pleasure of knowing him) and at the Masseria.

Small note on the label

The desire to promote the rich Pontine territory, in its multiple cultural aspects, has prompted the company to place fragments of a work by Antonio Agresti on the label because in the work of this artist he has glimpsed his own desire to recover consolidated traditions but also the desire for care and respect for the Earth.

Antonio Agresti, who signs himself AGRE, has Italian origins, he grew up in Naples where he graduated in Architecture.

“The ancient roots of the company give stability and strength to the present, we could not think of proceeding on new roads without turning our thoughts to those who gave them this land or to the hard and joyful efforts of their workers and their loved ones.”
Loredana Ciccarelli

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Technical contents

The property boasts 16 hectares of land arranged between 200 and 550m. above sea level, of which 10 are olive groves, the remainder is intended for pasture and woodland.

There are two thousand centuries-old trees, exclusively of the Itrana variety;

there are also some pollinators of different Cultivars* such as moraiolo, carboncella and leccino

The cultivation method is organic with grassing, certified by the Soil and Health Authority.

The fertilizer used is organic from compost and manure

The harvest, supervised by Loredana and Fabrizio, is mainly by hand with mechanical facilitators and the time between it and the milling is very short, maximum 12 hours.

The oil mill used is modern in a continuous cycle, for the conservation of extra virgin olive oil nitrogen is used.

Explanation of terms:

* Cultivar = In horticulture, the name used to indicate the agricultural varieties of a botanical species.

For all the terminologies used in olive growing go to our GLOSSARY