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Returning to the Mountains of Sicily.

A little over a hundred years ago, Ignazio Letizia left Capo d'Orlando on the northern coast of Sicily for Australia. He spent fifty years as a cane farmer in north Queensland, raised a family in Brisbane, and never returned to Sicily.

Four generations of an Australian family kept the thread alive. His granddaughter — the fourth generation from Capo d'Orlando — purchased a farm in the mountains above the town he was born in. She named it Oliveto Letizia.

The estate is a semi-wild grove of centennial Minuta and Verdello olive trees — ancient cultivars of the Nebrodi, recognised by Slow Food as a Presidium variety — growing high above the Sicilian coast, on slopes bordering the Parco dei Nebrodi. The trees were not planted by anyone still alive. They have been here, largely without intervention, for longer than any living memory of the family in Sicily.

Oliveto Letizia is not just a restoration of what was once had. It is something more deliberate — a return to the mountain, the cultivars, and the practice the Nebrodi has always followed. The name on the estate is the family's name. The oil carries that provenance in every bottle.

Each bottle is XRPL-verified: scan the QR code to confirm your bottle's origin, harvest date, and certifications on the XRP Ledger. Every drop of LongiOro is traceable to this estate, these trees, this harvest.

— The Letizia Family, Oliveto Letizia