He and local miller Daniele Lepori started tinkering with olive oil production using three local olives and one from Puglia.

We visited an olive oil mill in Italy in the southern region of Puglia, a region that alone supplies 40% of Italy's olive oil production and 12% worldwide. Olive oil is an essential part of the ...

And as for Italy, another major player in the olive oil game? For the past decade, trees in Puglia (the heart of the country’s olive production) and beyond have been ravaged by the Xylella ...

Olive oil comes in many varieties and flavours that change depending on soil, climate, age, and production. The most refined olive oil is called 'extra virgin.' To be called so, the olives need to ...

It reportedly caused about a million olive trees in Puglia to die as of summer 2015. Italy started chopping down affected olive trees in Puglia in April last year, after the epidemic prompted ...