Long Before Soliva, There Was the Family Grove
My grandfather never sold his oil. He just shared it.
I didn't grow up thinking of olive oil as something special. My grandfather Paolo had about 300 trees on a small farm in Solarino, a small village in southeastern Sicily, alongside a coop of chickens, a few rabbits, and a couple of horses. Every fall he'd hand-pick the olives himself and walk them down to the local frantoio to be pressed. That oil never had a label, and it was never for sale. If he knew you, you got a bottle.
Years later, living in the U.S., I went looking for something like it and came up empty. Real Sicilian olive oil, still tied to one farm and one family, is nearly impossible to find here. Soliva exists to close that gap: no blending, no relabeling, just oil made the same way, by families like mine, now on your counter instead of staying in one village in Sicily.
Danny, Founder of Soliva Curators
One Estate. One Harvest. One Family Behind It.
Every oil we curate comes from one estate, one family, one harvest, so the name on the bottle is always the name of the people who grew it.
It Could Only Come From Here.
Some of our oils come from Menfi's coastal shores, others from the sun-warmed hills near Noto, but every single one is grown and pressed right here on the island. Sicily isn't a label to us. It's a place we'd love for you to taste for yourself.
You'll Always Know Whose Hands Made It.
Pick up any bottle we sell and you can trace it straight back: the estate, the harvest, the hands that picked it. We love sharing those details, because knowing exactly where your oil came from makes it taste even better.
Today, multiple Sicilian estates make up Soliva, each one different from the last: different soil, different olives, different hands. Together, they're Sicily, in every drop, and we can't wait for you to taste it.
