Olive oil producers Maussane-Les-Alpilles

On the southern slope of the Alpilles Massif, the olive orchard of this estate was created in 2005. Today, Laurent Israélian has 2000 trees. Since 2009, he has had a mill to control the entire oil production process. He elaborates two types of oil: a green fruity, bitter and fiery, and a black fruity, sweeter. The Domaine was awarded a Silver Medal at the Concours Général Agricole de Paris 2020, for lot 2 of Fruité Vert AOP Vallée des Baux.

Raymond Gonfond is THE specialist of the broken olive in Maussane. It must be said that he has been perpetuating an ancestral know-how for a number of years: the olives from his orchards are still prepared by hand. After having broken them with a mallet so that all the bitterness escapes, they are preserved and marinated in brine obtained directly from an infusion of wild fennel. Raymond Gonfond also produces olive oil.

Marina Ambrogi does not have a mill (that of her country house, dating from 18th century, has been rearranged into guest rooms) but ideas. And rather good. So, she has entrusted to the couple Hugues, of the Castelas mill, the task of producing oil from the 3,500 olive trees planted on her family estate in Maussane-les-Alpilles. As a result: a green fruity and a black fruity, many times rewarded, which are sold throughout France and even beyond.