Azienda Agricola Chiaramonte Leone

Our Company, in olive growing vocation is headquartered in Saracen town in the Province of Cosenza, at the foot of the Pollino National Park, at an altitude ranging from three hundred to seven hundred meters above sea level, in Mileio districts - San Filippo - Fillirose - Piana Venaglie.-
With over a thousand olive trees in production by cultivating native cultivars such as forasana and true and Roggianella, carolea, leccino and coratina.-

Today the company is investing many resources in the extra virgin olive oil field, with a strong attention to the protection of the environment by making a crop without the use of chemical fertilizers, which already at the beginning of always It characterized the company Chiaramonte, the same boasts the production of a high-quality extra virgin olive oil obtained from olives by hand grazed and harvested only in the period veraison when the precious fruits are tinged with a delicate brown, strong high quality, then comes in the most important national and international fairs, giving even beyond the border the most genuine image of the foothills of Pollino.

The frantoiana activities Chiaramonte was born in 1966 with Mr. Innocent opens a small plant for the pressing of olives, at the service of the citizens of Saratoga, today continues with his son Mr. Lion, transforming the company from one type of production for only the local market, placed on a "marketing oriented", thus expanding the market strategies not only to the whole of Italy, but also exporting the product in France, Germany, Austria and beyond.

In recent years the oil production company launched an investment to expand and modernize the plant for the production of extra virgin olive oil through the purchase of new machinery to continuous processing cycle and renewing also section confezionamento.-