The Cazzetta family has, for at least four generations, guarded its treasure comprising tradition and experience, an inestimable fortune that’s been handed down with pride and dedication to the cultivation of olive trees and to the extraction of oil.

The procedures are profoundly attached to the experience of the previous generations, in order to guarantee and preserve tradition, but with an eye open to innovative research in order to improve the quality of the product. This link between old and new certainly ensures that new technologies and market trends don’t completely replace the old traditions, which represent a very important resource both for culture and as a guarantee of quality.

The overall management of the activity is structured on three different but interdependent levels, each highly specialized: the running, processing and marketing. This allows the firm to control the entire production.

- The Cazzetta agricultural firm: specialized in the direct management of their own olive-trees respecting both the environment and tradition.
- The Cazzetta oil-mill (limited company): specialized in oil processing from the home-produced olives .
- Terra d’Otranto (limited company). specialized in the bottling and marketing of extra virgin olive oil.

The activity of these establishments is based on the running of 300 hectares owned by the family, through the most suitable agronomic intervention and the continuous improvement of the farming and harvest techniques. The consequent processing and extraction of oil is made with new machinery which aims to preserve the same principles passed down by great-grandpa Raffaele, grandpa Feliciano and Francesco, the father.

The oil-mill for the extraction of oil consists in a series of systems for cold working, in order to obtain the best nectar possible. The bottling and marketing stages are carried out in a very modern factory which has, apart from the administrative and commercial offices, a bottling establishment capable of producing 1000 bottles per hour.