Colle dell’Eremita
Buy nowThere are achievements that are not born from adding, but from subtracting.
Not from abundance, but from the deliberate choice to renounce excess, haste, and the superfluous.
Colle dell’Eremita is the result of that choice: a Grand Cru born from an ancient vision and rigorous practice.
It does not seek to impress, but to purify. It does not overwhelm, it refines.
Year of Production
2024-2025
Harvest Period
Second and third decade of October
Extraction Method
Knife crushing at variable speed, followed by short, low-intensity malaxation to preserve the most delicate aromas.
Rapid extraction in the absence of oxygen, with immediate filtration.
Deliberately reduced yield to privilege quality over quantity.
Intensity
On the nose: fresh, multi-layered bouquet, dominated by deep, herbal and balsamic notes.
On the palate: a firm yet measured entry. Bitterness and pungency unfold with intensity, yet with precision and control.
The structure is compact and harmonious, with no imbalance. Long persistence and an elegant finish.
Colle dell’Eremita is an essential oil that renounces the unnecessary.
It is designed for those who see beauty in restraint, and who choose substance when excess becomes noise.
Like a true sage, it makes its presence felt — quietly, yet unmistakably.
Purity begins with restraint
At the top of a rugged hill, far from the noise of the world, monks once withdrew in solitude.
But theirs was not loneliness, it was discipline — a life built on measured gestures, silence, and conscious renunciation. They cultivated olive trees rooted in bare rock, where water was scarce and the soil unforgiving.
When harvest time came, they had no mills or grinding stones.
They would carve simple mortars from stone and crush the olives by hand.
The oil that trickled out was scant, but pure.
They filtered it with coarse cloth and used it not to sell, but to live — as nourishment, light, medicine.
And it is said that the oil, despite its humble extraction, was of exceptional quality — the result of pure essence.
A spiritual and material legacy
Today, the methods have changed, but the logic remains: do less, to achieve more.
A brief malaxation preserves the most vibrant aromas; a fast, oxygen-free extraction sacrifices yield in favour of intensity and balance.
Every step is a deliberate act of restraint — and from that, superior purity is born.
This oil is the result of a vision that puts quality before quantity, rigour before efficiency.
It does not demand attention. It lingers. Like a clear thought. Like a truth whispered.
Colle dell’Eremita pays homage to those who understand that perfection is born of discipline, and that essence reveals itself only through the art of letting go.
