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Torre Prima, only 3 km far from old town San Gimignano, is a family concern and the main activities are olives collection and grape harvest.
At the beginning of 70', Pollina Family started the first steps in San Gimignano area. Those years were very critical, most of the countrysides were abandonet from the people moving to the cities, looking for a more confortable life. And it was in that period Pollina family, who always benefited the soil products advantages, decided to go on entering this way.
Today, always as family concern, the firm is a farm holidays and produces oil and wine.
There are some matters our Region is strictly tied to; the first one is obviously the extra virgin olive oil, a product that needs lots of working hours and that is a very precious property.
For our culture is fundamental to dress our courses with a good extra virgin olive oil, that is the most extraordinary exalter of food taste, and it is obtained using natural working methods of the basic raw materials, with no need of particular complex operations.
It is not so easy to produce a good oil, it's a long proceeding requesting passion and dedication, sacrifice and also technique, because it must always be taken into consideration the complexity of the entire production cycle from the tree to the oil.
The quality of the oil does not depends only on the kind of crushing and extraction, even if these two phases are very important, but it depends also on all the work the tree needs during certain periods of the year.
Our oil is done with 4 different kinds of olives, the oil of this area is surely one of best in Tuscany. Its taste pretty good blends with the typical bruschetta and with other typical courses of our Region.
The collection of the olives is done during the month of November.
The grapevines are cultivated especially Sangiovese (from which we produce our Chianti wine), and the famous Vernaccia ofi San Gimignano, from which we obtain a white dry wine.
With grape harvest the summer is close to his end, since the vintage - from Vernaccia ending with Sangiovese - begins in September and lasts until middle of October.
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