C.O.S.A.R. 

ASSOCIATION OF ROMAN SABINE OLIVE GROWERS

Contacts
http://www.cosar-oil.it
e-mail: info@cosar-oil.it  tel +39 0774424163 fax +39 0774425444 

 The association was founded in 1992 by four farmers’ cooperatives of the area:

 For years now these four associations have chosen to privilege the quality, rather than the quantity, of the olive oil they produce.  

The technologies here adopted respect the natural growth and ripening stages of the olives, stages well known in the millenary local tradition and described in the treatise De Re Rustica (About Agriculture) by Lucio Giunio Moderato Columella, one of the most famous agronomists of the ancient times.

 It is to this eminent author that the COSAR managers decided to link the name of their extra-virgin olive oil, produced in complete accordance with that ancient tradition which alone can assure its absolute and unquestionable quality. 

Characteristics of the product

 Cultivars: Carboncella, Leccino, Raja, Pendolino, Frantoio, Muraiolo, Frantoio, muraiolo, Olivestrone, Slaviana, Olivago, Rosciola ( pres. min. 75%).

 Soil origin: calcareous, permeable, dry though not arid, fairly windy.

 Climate: fairly temperate.

 Olive grove exposure: facing south for the most part.

 Output: max. 6,300 Kg/hectare

 Yield (olives in oil): max. 25%

 Total natural acidity: max. 0.4 oleic acid/100 gr. oil

 Colour: gold yellow, with green shades in very fresh oils.

 Smell: fruity.

 Taste: fruity (ranging from intense to medium-light)

 Acknowledgments: DOC (Controlled Origin Denomination), DOP (Protected Origin Denomination).

  We are gratefully for the Traslation to prof. M.Teodori