ANTICO FRANTOIO INGEGNO is located in province of Foggia, at Deliceto, in Contrada Ripa della Volpe. Deliceto, the heart of the Southern Mountains of Daunia, is a thriving hilltop town full of olive groves tended by expert hands. The plants of the fertile location “Tremoleto” 500 meters above sea level, yield olives that produce an excellent extra virgin olive oil, unique for organoleptic characteristics, mainly due to special processing, whose flavor stands out the best flavors.
Position within the locality Ripa della Volpe is the complex called Antico Frantoio Ingegno was founded in 1960 by the family that with tenacity and passion has remained unchanged in time the authenticity of the product.
Antico Frantoio Ingegno was founded in 1960 by his grandfather Bartolomeo who starts to carry out the activity of the miller full, with innate passion then hand down to his son Matthias and grandchildren.
Over the years, the experience and skilled processing methods, make that his son Mattia build the secret of success of the excellent products of the “Linea Ingegno“. The oil, virgin olive oil, is the result of a meticulous and careful selection of healthy olives harvested by hand, at the right point of ripeness, stored in perforated crates placed in a ventilated warehouse, for not more than 24 hours, in order to avoid fermentation which would damage the oil consistency.
Processing by cold pressing, with millstones, retains the intense and unmistakable olive fresh. Today brothers Ingenuity, Patrizia and Bartolomeo, in the third generation, continue to devote the same care and the same devotion to the ancient family activities.
Il Frantoio Ingegno gets an extra virgin olive oil following all the procedures that tradition taught . The cold pressing takes place .
Thanks also to the wild places and the mountain climate of the fertile earth of Puglia, have created Antico Frantoio Ingegno new structures, innovative techniques, maintaining the ancient Mediterranean tradition in the footsteps of his father Matthias.
