OLIVOTTOIL

My name is Nino Olivotto. I was born sixty years ago in a farm in the countryside of Northern Italy growing grapes, grain and rice. I grew up in my courtyard together with two sisters, other farm kids, chickens, cows , horses and pigs. When I was eighteen years old, I relocated to town to take my Master in Engineering. Since then, I spent my full career with American High Tech companies in international roles from R&D and Services to Sales. I had therefore the privilege to combine the passion of my mother Lina for nature during the week-ends spent with family in the country-side and my competences in scientific methods and in operational efficiency of my father Angelo during the work-days spent internationally. For twenty years, I spent every summer vacation in the Salento county in Southern Italy where I grow my own olive crops aiming at the best quality olive oil possible. It was love since the beginning. In the worldwide historical capital of olive oil: Salento, I could finally..