I-77 extra virgin olive oil is a monocultivar of this particular variety that the company has grown since the early 1990s, when the company was given half a hectare of this variety, at the time unknown and never processed. Over the years, they discovered that it was actually an ancient cultivar from Abruzzo and managed to produce a quality product.
Tasting notesI-77 extra virgin olive oil is a light-medium fruity oil with notes of fresh grass, artichoke and tomato. The taste is moderately bitter and spicy with a bitter, grassy hint of artichoke. It has an interesting strong balance of spiciness, bitterness and sweetness.