Our company received a great award entrepreneurship and biodiversity on 2017 by dr. Piero Pii, mayor of Casole d’Elsa on June 24, 2017. The event was the second edition of the Flavors of Music in the Bichi Borghesi estate in Scorgiano. We were awarded a crystal horse on which is engraved “recognition for biodiversity and […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
In our Hystoric Chianti, harvesting juniper berries has always been a seasonal activity. Every year, from mid-August until the beginning of the harvest, every farming family took part in the harvest. On every farm, the elders taught the young how to harvest juniper berries. It was a true art. No branch was to be damaged, […]
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 […]
the structural reorganization after the crisis has taken doctor Lorenzo Domini very seriously, both from an economic and cognitive point of view. We have reorganized the old Casalvento farm from the roots, but to do so we needed new ideas and knowledge. To modernize the entire property, 10 years of study and careful planning were […]
The market crisis: an ice age is coming… the sharecropping crisis and the development of the wine market completely changed the production fabric of the small Chianti area. Far more devastating, however, was the earthquake in the world of cosmetics and essences: synthetic chemistry is taking hold and few are looking for a natural product […]
