extra virgin olive oil of superior quality and specialty food from liguria Commercial office: Via de Togni 20, 20123 Milan – Italy Tel. +39-02-8645 3377 Fax +39-02-865 875
[email protected] www.rosmarinofarm.com The story behind “Costa dei Rosmarini” and the person making the product. Luisa Petrelli worked for Italian wine and food magazines and is a member of the Academy of Italian Cuisine. She likes cooking and is considered particularly good in the Mediterranean cuisine. In 1991 she bought in Liguria an old farm located in front of Portofino with an extraordinary view at the Tigullio Gulf. This small property is called “Rosmarino Farm” because is surrounded by secular plants of rosemary. It has an ancient stone-house and some 1,000 olive trees growing in stripes of land sustained by dry-stone walls built in centuries. The farm can only be reached by foots through a medieval road paved in stones. The farm house is a few hundred year old and has been restored maintaining the old characteristics (fire heating, fire cooking, stone walls, wood floors, old instruments, etc.). This country-house has been published as an example of the old life-style and decoration. Since the Luisa cuisine has been always based on extra virgin olive oil, in 1995 she decided to start a limited production of high quality extra virgin olive oil for top cuisine and gourmets. The first customer was Hotel Cipriani in Venice. Since then other prestigious names and famous cooks decided to buy her oil. Today, taking advantage of the local oil masters, “Costa dei Rosmarini” is produced in Imperia in small quantities at a time and its superior quality is constantly controlled by official tasters of ONAOO (the Italian Association of Olive Oil Tasters).