From March 2 to 5, 2017, at the beautiful Cicalino estate in Massa Marittima, we gave a report at the International Conference on Essential Oils organized by FIPPO. An audience of enthusiasts, companies, entrepreneurs, and consultants enlivened the four-day event. Numerous Italian and international speakers contributed to the success of the meeting, engaging the audience […]
The prestigious and widely read monthly magazine Bio Magazine sent an editor to Casalvento to ask us a few questions. The article, titled “Lavender tells the stories and organic poetry of our land…“, simply and carefully outlines the evolution of a production project begun in Casalvento in 1962 We immediately understand that journalist Rosa Polito […]
Andrea Pagliantini explains how to making lavender essential oil on his blog. Andrea is a true, strong Chiantigiano, capable of introducing us to the most unusual and curious aspects of Chianti through his writing. His blog features pages of curiosities and daily life, controversies about misgovernment, and also entertaining stories of Chianti Storico. A professional […]
New cosmetics are functional in nature, requiring active ingredients that are appropriately combined with other excipients to enhance their efficacy. This entails optimally extracting the right active ingredients from selected botanicals. It also means measuring the product’s effectiveness using scientific methods. Realizing this vision has occupied us for nearly ten years. Let’s see how we […]
We are beginning to modernize medicinal plant cultivation by mechanical harvesting of lavender. Every production activity must be properly organized. We need a nursery to supply the business with aromatic plants and a system for the mechanical harvesting of lavender. Distillation must be carried out using stills of appropriate capacity, located in suitable premises dedicated […]
We began to distill lavender in the 60s, but this coincided with a much more romantic story. Liguria, a honeymoon on the Col di Nava, an advertising song on the scent of lavender … and in Casalvento it was immediately blue. It was unthinkable in the 1960s to come across specialized crops of medicinal plants, […]
And so it was that on a hot June afternoon in 2013, Matteo Pucci, a professional journalist and founder and editor of the Gazzettino del Chianti e delle Colline Fiorentine, arrived ti the man who scents Chianti. Traveling along provincial road No. 76, which leads from Castellina in Chianti to San Donato in Poggio, he […]
From 1962 onwards, scientific rigor was applied to production, giving rise to Casalvento Laboratories. Giovanni Domini, a professor at the University of Siena, published an experimental study using gas chromatographic analysis of essential oils, correlating distillation with the balsamic properties of Lavandula Angustifolia grown in Casalvento. This milestone marked the beginning of our scientific evolution. […]
To speak of Provence in the Chianti region is certainly an exaggeration, yet who would expect to find lavender fields in areas historically dedicated to the cultivation of vines and olive trees ? Rock music blaring welcomes me in the square in front of the Officina Estrattiva, and I think, this is off to a […]
with the new millennium everything has changed: we implement significant restructuring measures that boost productivity. Vineyards are uprooted and replanted, olive groves are expanded, and aromatic plant crops are reorganized according to advanced technical criteria. We design and build new distillation systems, and establish a new nursery… all without interrupting production and sales. We enhance […]
