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“Under the Tuscan Sun” Olive Oil

Extra-virgin olive oil from trees growing on the estate made famous in the best-selling "Under the Tuscan Sun.''
Extra-virgin olive oil from trees growing on the estate made famous in the best-selling “Under the Tuscan Sun.”

If you fell under the romantic spell of the memoir, “Under the Tuscan Sun” you’re sure to appreciate a chance to enjoy your very own taste of sorts of that escape-to-Italy life that author Frances Mayes wrote so lovingly about.

The book chronicled Mayes’ fraught escapades in restoring a Tuscan countryside home known as Bramasole that had been abandoned for 30 years.

In addition to renovating the house to new glory, she and her husband Edward Mayes also brought back to health the property’s olive trees.

Each October, the olives from these centuries’ old trees are pressed for olio nuovo, new oil with the freshest taste that’s meant to be used immediately.

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