A story permeated with passion
“I’ve always loved cooking and the myriad of ways you can enhance a dish. My interest in this world began at a young age, when I would cook my own meals out of my pure innate passion.
After the economic crash in the 2000s, I decided to leave my construction company to follow my dream: making olive oil that was good enough to enhance flavour and be my secret weapon in the kitchen! And that is how, after taking many courses and doing a Slow Food masters, I fell in love with this world, quite simply and irrevocably. I began to put my plan into action by finding land that met my needs for producing high-quality olive oil.
Since 2003, alongside my wife Giusy, I have been able to pursue my true passion thanks to our family business, which our daughter Debora has also joined.’’
Tino Cavarra
When you enter the world of olive oil, it’s easy to get swept towards the philosophy of the 5 C’s – essentially:
Curiosity — Comprehension — Culture — Craft — Cooking
As such, if you start approaching the world of olive oil out of simple Curiosity and you begin to acquire a greater Comprehension of this ingredient, you then feel the urge to understand it even more and so you take courses to learn about the great Culture of olive oil, which astonishes you so completely that it becomes an almost maniacal worship of the Craft that drives you to bring your own olive oil to friends’ houses or even restaurants. Finally, it is only once this magnificent journey has been completed that you arrive at the knowledge and understanding of the daily need for this culinary enhancer in your Cooking, the great EVO, Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Terraliva sprung to life in the heart of the Hyblaean Mountains in the small hilltop town of Buccheri, in the province of Syracuse, a few kilometres from one of the most beautiful cities in Eastern Sicily, renowned for its art and historical and architectural sites.
Located in a volcanic region 700 metres above sea level, our ancient olive trees benefit from the variation in temperature between night and day, which blesses our plants with a form of positive stress that ensures a superior product with unique sensory properties.
Indeed, on our estates we have ancient native olive cultivars, such as the Tonda Iblea, as well as other minor cultivars including the Nocellara Etnea, the Nocellara del Belice and the Zaituna: these give life to the “experiential monocultivars” that inebriate the senses with their distinctive fragrances of tomato, wild cardoon, medicinal herbs, almonds and dried fruit and nuts.
Simultaneously complex yet harmonious, refined and surprisingly balanced between piquant and bitter, Terraliva olive oils eloquently lend themselves to cooking, not merely as a dressing, but as a flavour enhancer in any dish, bringing a taste of Sicily to your plate, straight from the “Terra delle Alive”.
Our extra virgin olive oil is made exclusively by cold pressing olives that have been picked by hand. It is certified Organic, IGP Sicilia, Kosher and Halal to respect and meet the needs of the Jewish and Muslim religions, thus ensuring that our olive oil complies with these rules to achieve a completely pure product. Our Cherubino olive oil is also a Slow Food Presidium.
The product’s authenticity, purity, freshness and our respect for the plants are key and what we strive for every day: to achieve this, we pick our olives exclusively by hand without the use of machinery that could damage the fruit and have a negative impact on the following year’s crops. Once they have been picked and placed in ventilated crates, we take the olives straight to the olive oil mill to be pressed by the Protoreattore, a state-of-the-art machine that guarantees a stronger concentration of polyphenols, the most important part of the oil: this gives us a magnificent end product that is filtered, then stored in silos in nitrogen at a controlled temperature and can be traced by its batch number at any time.
We love the Earth, we respect it and we care about the environment. Since 2003, we have been making organic extra virgin olive oil that is completely free from synthetic chemicals to preserve biodiversity, live in harmony with the surrounding ecosystem and because we hold dear the well-being of each and every one of our consumers and want them to know that the product they put on their tables is extremely healthy and completely natural.
In our own small way, we are trying to protect the planet from the effects of waste and pollution. For this very reason, we screen print most of our bottles to simplify and reduce recycling and usually opt for stainless steel bottles (that can later be reused for other purposes and for personal use) in order to guarantee considerable fuel savings during transport – thus reducing CO2 emissions – thanks to the low weight of the material.
For us, every bottle is unique. We bottle them one by one, always looking for the best possible container that is ergonomic and functional – to protect the oil from light and from changes in temperature – but above all, easy on the eyes. As such, we take great care over the packaging of our products and see to every tiny detail: we use Etruscan glass, cobalt and stainless steel bottles, we design our labels by hand using brocade and golden thread, we screen print our bottles and wrap them in fine paper so that… our bottles are easy on the oils!
Completely original, with a unique and customisable design, our bottles are a perfect gift idea for any celebration or a simple dinner amongst friends to experiment and try different olive cultivars and enjoy a unique sensory experience.
Our olive oils are a great alternative to classic party favours to thank and surprise your guests and make every special event you host unforgettable.
All our bottles have been certified for years with the Blockchain system, a cutting-edge system capable of telling the story of our product.
By scanning the olive-shaped QR code on our bottles with the camera of your mobile phone, you are brought back to an internet page (translated into your own language) in which all the information about our oil is provided and, in particular , on the entire production process in which the many aspects of our reality, our territory, the method of olive harvesting, the extraction of our EVO, its packaging and our company philosophy are told.
In this way, therefore, it is possible for us to undertake a transparent communication on what we do every day on our farm and on what you buy and bring to your table. Furthermore, through the blockchain system you are completely sure about the traceability of our extra virgin olive oil and that the purchased product is truly authentic, original and unique as it is certified as an absolutely non-falsifiable and verifiable product all over the world!
We certify all our products with this technology because we want to express the quality of our extra virgin olive oil by telling the various steps of our supply chain in maximum transparency to once again guarantee to each of our customers the usual safety and reliability.
The blockchain also represents for us a simple and direct way to talk for the first time with those who, on the shelves of a shop or on the table of a restaurant, find our oil for the first time, to inform them about its properties and origin. and thus discovering our EXTRAordinary Sicilian family history.
The excellence and value of our extra virgin olive oil have been recognised by many awards over the years, both at a national and international level. Our awards represent a guarantee for those who are unfamiliar with our product and confirm the high quality that our clients enjoy.
2005 5 gocce
2006 5 gocce
2007 5 gocce
2008 5 gocce
2009 5 gocce
2010 5 gocce (Cena di gala con il nostro olio in abbinamento al menù preparato da Gianfranco Vissani)
2013 5 gocce
2014 5 gocce
2016 5 gocce
2018 5 gocce
2019 5 gocce (Cena di gala con il nostro olio in abbinamento al menù preparato da Heinz Beck)
2020 5 gocce
2021 5 gocce
2022 5 gocce
2012 3 foglie + Edizione “Sua Eccellenza Italia”
2013 3 foglie + Premio speciale Migliore Monocultivar
2014 3 foglie
2016 3 foglie
2018 3 foglie + Premio speciale Miglior IGP di Italia
2019 3 foglie
2020 3 foglie + Premio speciale Miglior IGP di Italia
2021 3 foglie
2022 3 foglie + Premio Speciale Una Stella, riconoscimento di alto valore per aver ottenuto per almeno 10 anni le Tre Foglie
2004 1 oliva
2005 2 olive
2006 2 olive
2007 3 olive
2008 2 olive
2009 2 olive + Azienda di Eccellenza
2010 3 olive
2011 3 olive
2012 le 10 migliori aziende produttrici + Olio Slow
2014 8 Migliori aziende produttrici + Olio Slow
2016 Grande Olio Slow + Chiocciola + Presidio
2017 Grande Olio Slow + Chiocciola + Presidio
2018 Grande Olio Slow + Chiocciola + Presidio
2019 Grande Olio Slow + Chiocciola + Presidio
2020 Grande Olio Slow + Chiocciola + Presidio
2021 Grande Olio Slow + Chiocciola + Presidio
2022 Chiocciola + Presidio Slow Food
2005 olio di qualità Biol
2008 1° classificato
2009 olio di qualità Biol
2010 2° classificato
2012 gold metal
2013 3° posto Premio biol + 2° classificato Biolpack per il packaging + Extragold medal+ Medaglia gold
2014 2° classificato + Extra gold medal + Gold medal
2015 2° classificato
2019 Biol Sicily
2021 Extragold Medal
2022 Extragold Medal
2016 Extragold medal
2018 Extragold medal
2019 Extragold medal top ten
2020 Extragold medal
2005 1° classificato Sol d’oro
2006 gran menzione
2008 gran menzione
2009 gran menzione
2010 3° classificato Sol di bronzo
2011 gran menzione
2012 gran menzione
2013 gran menzione
2014 gran menzione
2015 1° classificato Sol d’oro
2016 gran menzione
2020 gran menzione
2008 gran menzione
2010 1° classificato
2014 gran menzione
2016 gran menzione finalista
2018 gran menzione
2019 gran menzione
2009 2° classificato
2010 1° classificato
2011 finalista
2012 1° classificato
2014 finalista
2016 gran menzione finalista + prima Amphora Olearia “Più bella bottiglia d’Italia 2016”
2019 finalista
2020 finalista
2022 finalista + Menzione di merito Impresa Donna
2004 distinzione
2005 1° classificato + distinzione
2006 1° classificato
2007 2° classificato
2008 1° classificato
2009 gran menzione
2010 3° classificato + distinzione
2011 gran menzione
2009 1° classificato
2011 2° classificato
2010
2019 95 punti – Azienda Top
2004 Migliori oli di italia
2005 Migliori oli di italia
2006 Migliori 10 oli mondiali
2008 Migliori 10 oli mondiali
2009 Migliori oli al mondo
2010 Migliori oli al mondo
2012 Migliori oli al mondo
2013 Migliori oli al mondo
2014 Migliori oli al mondo
2015 Migliori oli al mondo
2016 Migliori oli al mondo
2017 Migliori oli al mondo
2020 Migliori oli al mondo
2022 Migliori oli al mondo
2005 Gran Menzione
2006 1° classificato
2007 1° classificato
2020 Finalista Biologico
2021 Finalista IGP
2021 Primo Premio Packaging
2022 Finalista IGP
5 gocce
2011 1°-2° classificato
2012 1°-2°-3° classificato
2013 gran menzione + 4 gocce
2005 2° classificato
2006 1° classificato
2008 1° classificato
2009 premio alla Miglior Confezione + gran menzione
2007 Top tra i migliori oli al mondo.
2008 Top tra i migliori 50 oli al mondo.
2009 Top tra i migliori al mondo.
2011 Top tra i migliori 100 oli al mondo.
2012 Top tra i migliori 100 oli al mondo.
2014 tra i migliori 50 oli su oltre 750 partecipanti.
2020 tra i migliori 200 oli al mondo.
2014 2° posto
2020 Silver medal categoria Igp
2022 Gold Prize categoria Biologico
2008 1° classificato
2009 finalista
2012 semifinalista
2020 finalista categoria Fruttato Intenso + Menzione d’Onore Origin
2008 1° classificato
2009 1° classificato
2010 Medaglia d’oro
2007 2° classificato
2010 gran menzione
2021 “Velvet” ottiene il Premio Platino come Linea Commerciale Gourmet con Confezione
2021 “Velvet” ottiene il Premio Oro come Gourmet con Confezione
2021 “Silver” ottiene il Premio Oro come Oli Gourmet
Azienda selezionata e premiata (nella primissima edizione) per attenzione alla sostenibilità, alla ricerca, all’innovazione e alla scelta di un’Agricoltura Biologica.
2022 Gold Award e Best of Class
2022 Gold Award e Best of Class
2022 Gold Award e Best of Class
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