The love for extra virgin olive oil and its traditions, the passion for our territory and for the family: this is what means being an olive enthusiast, lover
PASSION AND KNOWLEDGE
60 years of pure love for olive oil
Giancarlo and Sabrina Sartorari Bonamini lead with wise wealth the historical Olive Mill, which has been through thick and thin for the past 60 years and today consists of 5.200 olive trees cultivated on 21 hectares, reaching a production of 270.000 bottles per year, distributed in Italy and abroad
PRIMILIA A TRUE
FLAGSHIP
Our excellence
Primilia is the new extra virgin olive oil line personally selected by Giancarlo Bonamini. Primilia olive oil is the final result of a very accurate selection of olive groves located surrounding the Illasi Valley, the highest part of the Verona hills.
May, 1st 1965
The Origins
Giancarlo’s parents, Stefano and Lina Bonamini get married and decide to combine together their skills: Lina's agricultural activity merges with Stefano's artisanal activity, who decides to buy an olive mill from his father’s cousin. This is how the Frantoio Bonamini reality is born.
June, 20th 1989
Giancarlo Bonamini arrival
After his agricultural graduation, Giancarlo Bonamini flanks his father in the menagement of the olive mill and the agricultural activity. He registers for VAT and starts to handle the production of extra virgin olive oil.
1993
The first Bonamini Signed Bottle
During an event in San Briccio (Lavagno), for the first time ever an olive oil cruet with Frantoio Bonamini business card is presented: a small thing which marks the beginning of the brand.
1995
Frantoio Bonamini is born
Without any contacts with suppliers or customers, Giancarlo Bonamini starts to bottle extra virgin olive oil branded like Frantoio Bonamini. The first 900 bottles are distribute as samples to make people know the quality of Bonamini olive oil and little by little the firm starts to grow.
1999
The Olive Mill Expands
A very generous olive harvest, the increase of the extra virgin olive oil production and the olive mill limited space really test the business growth. An enlargement is very needed.
2000
Industria 4.0
Giancarlo Bonamini bet on innovation and quality and this is how the new Frantoio Bonamini headquarters, equipped with a modern continuous plant, is born, getting over the old saying “this is how we’ve always done”.
2001
Certified Quality EVO Oil
Frantoio Bonamini gladly greet the P.D.O. Veneto Valpolicella approval. In the same year, Giancarlo and Sabrina get married, giving birth to a new collaboration which will bring the olive mill to new successes. 2001 is also the first olive oil harvest using only the modern olive mill.
2010
Sustainability and Innovation
The attention to sustainability get stronger reducing the production impact, limiting the wastes and giving value to each part of the fruit: the pit, the pulp, the skin. This allows Bonamini to produce high quality italian extra virgin olive oil in full respect of the environment.
2020
4.0 Olive Mill
Frantoio Bonamini keeps evolving, opting for the 4.0 technologies to carefully supervise all the different steps of the production of extravirgin olive oil.
2024
Incessant Innovation
The placement of a new olive washing and drying system and of a temperature-controlled knife crusher: avantgarde technologies which guarantee us the extraction of an excellent extra virgin olive oil.
2025
New vertical malaxig units to reduce the contact between the olive paste and the oxygen are what’s going to further improve the quality of the final product. Another step forward for Frantoio Bonamini, now leader in high quality extra virgin olive oil production.
TOLIVE MILL QUALITY
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A SENSORIAL VISIT TO FRANTOIO BONAMINI
Experiences to discover the secrets of the family
An unparalleled experience to find out all about extra virgin olive oils and a unique territory which is the Illasi Valley, followed by a tasting of different products from the Bonamini line.
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