The oil that started it all
The season’s first oil.
Six bottles, to open and share at your table all year.
Selected each autumn by Fil Bucchino, international olive oil expert and panel taster, from the groves in our care. A new label every year.
#17: the harvest began on October 8, 2026. Cases ship after bottling.
The #17 label, revealed soon
How it’s chosen
Chosen by what thrives first.
Each year Fil chooses the varieties that reach their best earliest in the season, then keeps only the best extraction days. Every drop comes from the groves in our care; we never bring in oil from anywhere else. Each harvest is tested by certified laboratories, and no pesticide residue has ever been detected.
What arrives
Six bottles, and the season behind them.
Six 500 ml bottles.
Under that year’s label.
Tasting notes.
Fil’s notes on that year’s oil.
Pairings.
The dishes it suits best that year.
The season.
What happened in the groves that year, from the first rains to the last extraction.
Scan the QR code in the case for that year’s notes. Members read Fil’s full tasting notes, pairings and the season as it happened in My Grove.
Where the name comes from
It started with one oil, shared with friends and family.
2009
It began with one taste that changed everything, and the wish to recreate it for anyone who cared to listen. A small early harvest oil called Adagio del Colle went out to family and friends through a simple email list.
2014
A late olive fly attack struck during the early harvest. The oil couldn’t meet our standard, so it wasn’t released that year.
2016
The people on that list believed, and with them the restoration and the quality grew together, until the work had a name of its own: Abandoned Grove.
2019
In honour of that first list, Adagio del Colle became Family Reserve.
2023
As the oil reached far beyond that first list, it was clear none of this could have happened without the people who carried it: the family and friends who were there first, the chefs who cooked with it, the people who gathered others around their tables. They were the founders.
The oil became Founder’s Reserve, in their name.
The label
A new label every harvest.
For over a decade, each release has carried its own label, designed by artist and longtime collaborator Steve Hagey within a limited colour palette. The full #17 label is revealed soon, once the harvest is in.
#172026
#162025
#152024
#142023
#132022
#122021
#112020
#102019
#92018
#82017
#6–72015–2016
#1–52009–2013
The 2026 release
#17, from the Fall 2026 harvest.
The harvest began on October 8, 2026. Sold by the case: six 500 ml bottles.
- Members
- $384 a case, shipping included.
- Public
- $423 a case, plus shipping.
For the United States, tariffs are included. For the public, shipping is added at checkout.
In their words
When the case arrives.
Belong to a grove.
Root Membership is $45 a year: member prices with shipping included, early access to every release, and letters, harvest notes and recipes from the groves. Tree Guardianship adds a tree of your own and two bottles from its grove every harvest, for $225 a year.
Renews each year. Cancel anytime before renewal. Guard a tree by December 31 for this year’s oil.