Farnese With your hands

Olive mill visit and oil tasting in the Alta Tuscia

Farnese

The Gentili have been pressing olives at Farnese for generations, out on the edge of the Selva del Lamone, where the rock is black lava and the oak wood closes in. The oil is Canino DOP.

How the day goes

  1. Inside the mill, where the fruit goes in one end and the oil comes out the other.
  2. The tasting: oil on its own, judged the way the people who make it judge it.
  3. The Lamone woods and Lago di Mezzano are both close by if the day has more in it.

The mill is at its loudest during the harvest, with the presses running; outside that season the visit is the story rather than the work.

Where it is

Farnese at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Farnese, and where it is from Rome Farnese drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 121 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 121 min Rome Farnese

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Localita Chiusa Le Sparme snc, 01010 Farnese (VT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 2 h 01drive from the middle of Rome
  • 136 kmeach way

  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you — so you can actually drink

    Our pick for this one

    There is wine at the end of this one. Somebody else driving is not a luxury here.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody has to stay off the wine

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