Tenute Nicolazzi traces its roots back to the 1920s, when Francesco Nicolazzi founds the family farm in the lands nearby Petilia Policastro, Calabria, harvesting olive trees and extracting with an old mill the first inhouse olive oil. The land is extremely fertile, being in a remarkable corner of Calabria, in the heart of Magna Graecia. The farm counts on a family oil mill and 10 hectars of olive groves.

Francesco's sons, Amedeo and Antonino, join the family company with the clear goal to expand the business in the upcoming years.

The family coplets a series of acquisitions enlarging dramatically the harvesting lands, passing from a dozen of hectars to around 500 hectars of olive groves.

The sharp increase of the harvesting capacity pushes the company to invest ina. second line of production, doubling the production of oilve oil, always through the strict cold-extraction process preserving the quality of the oil.

Nicolazzi farm invests in a brand new oil mill, where transfers all existing equipment and update some machinery, modernizing the entire production.

The third generation, represented by Gaetano Nicolazzi, enters the company, bringing new resources and ideas for the ongoing growth of the family business.

The increased land estate and olive production pushes the family to upgrade the facily with the opening of a new oil mill, engineered to be able to scale the olive treatment over the time.

The company invests in a high-tech warehouse, a temperature-controlled storage facilities that use an inert nitrogen atmosphere. This system limits the premature ageing of the product and prevents oxidation caused by the presence of oxygen during storage. Along the stock, it installs a bottling line, ensuring an in-house full production, from the harvesting to the bottled product.

Tenute Nicolazzi purchases Pieralisi machinery, connected to one of the two existing production lines. The innovative Protoreactor extraction system ensures the output of extra virgin olive oil in its purest form.