Tuscany autumn olive oil vacation is a hymn to the olive tree and to extra virgin olive oil. The olive tree is a spectacular plant, with a very great importance, both in terms of food, landscape and more .. a millennial plant, in the true sense of the word, since the longest specimens olive plants can touch more than 1000 years of age, and age-old because her relationship with mankind is lost in the mists of time.
Symbol of sacredness and importance for the Romans, a symbol of peace for the Jewish Christians, this Mediterranean plant is one of the many works of art that nature has to offer. Tuscany autumn symphony olive oil tastings as a wonder of nature it is almost natural to try to describe it in words, as famous poets have done. Enjoy this poem by Pablo Neruda …
ODE TO OLIVE OIL
Near the murmuring
In the grain fields, of the waves
Of wind in the oat-stalks
The olive tree
With its silver-covered mass
Severe in its lines
In its twisted
Heart in the earth:
The graceful
Olives
Polished
By the hands
Which made
The dove
And the oceanic
Snail:
Green,
Inumerable,
Immaculate
Nipples
Of nature
And there
In
The dry
Olive Groves
Where
Alone
The blue sky with cicadas
And the hard earth
Exist
There
The prodigy
The perfect
Capsules
Of the olives
Filling
With their constellations, the foliage
Then later,
The bowls,
The miracle,
The olive oil.
I love
The homelands of olive oil
The olive groves
Of Chacabuco, in Chile
In the morning
Feathers of platinum
Forests of them
Against the wrinkled
Mountain ranges.
In Anacapri, up above,
Over the light of the Italian sea
Is the despair of olive trees
And on the map of Europe
Spain
A black basketfull of olives
Dusted off by orange blossoms
As if by a sea breeze
Olive oil,
The internal supreme
Condition for the cooking pot
Pedestal for game birds
Heavenly key to mayonaise
Smoothe and tasty
Over the lettuce
And supernatural in the hell
Of the king mackerals like archbishops
Our chorus
With
Intimate
Powerful smoothness
You sing:
You are the Spanish
Language
There are syllables of olive oil
There are words
Useful and rich-smelling
Like your fragrant material
It’s not only wine that sings
Olive oil sings too
It lives in us with its ripe light
And among the good things of the earth
I set apart
Olive oil,
Your ever-flowing peace, your green essence
Your heaped-up treasure which descends
In streams from the olive tree.
Pablo Neruda (1971) Translated by Jodey Bateman
Ok, this poem was to move a bit the minds 🙂 now some supplementary information … 2016 is shaping up a year of gold for the collection of the olive oil in Tuscany. And it is in autumn that the olive harvest begins.
Mugello&Tuscany offers the chance to witness the entire production cycle, from harvesting to tasting, which will be accompanied by other fantastic local products, such as bread baked in traditional ovens using wood, homemade salami and cheeses completing all perhaps with a wonderful wine as an IGP Chianti Rufina or a prize pinot from the western Mugello.
In the months of October, November and December Mugello&Tuscany offer Tuscany autumn olive oil vacation packages. They consit of weekends or 3-4 days of relaxation, allowing our guests to immerse themselves in the world of extra-virgin olive oil and of traditonal products from Tuscany.