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Clear glass tumbler with soft drink, cut lemon juniper sprigs and berries on burlap bale background. White lettering: special ingredients non-alcoholic liqueur 0% alcohol

20s we are hunters of horizons

The beverage market follows two opposing trends: enriching spirits with perfume and enriching soft drinks with taste. They are apparently two very different markets but they need the same suppliers: producers of botanicals and producers of extracts such as Casalvento. All the botanicals necessary to produce fine distillates such as GIN and liqueurs of various types (from bitters to digestives) come from our agricultural surfaces of organic crops and all the...

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Cover of the book by Raffaello Massi entitled "Casalvento". The history of life in the Tuscan countryside in the years of classical agriculture

Casalvento in a book by Raffaello Massi

< Raffaello Massi is a surgeon and psychiatrist by profession who lives, works and writes in Florence. Casalvento is a sober and luminous exercise of memory. It is a lucid look at the passions of youth and its deceptions. It is the delicate reconstruction of an enchanted world. It is the world of the Tuscan countryside: wheat, vines, cypresses, barking dogs, the moon and silence. It is the simplicity of an...

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Image of the award received by the Casalvento company represented by a transparent crystal horse on a red and black background with reflections on glass and black writing: award for biodiversity and innovation

2017 Award for Biodiversity and Entrepreneurship

Our company received a great recognition by Dr. Piero Pii, Mayor of Casole d'Elsa on June 24, 2017 during 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 entrepreneurial ability". Dr. Giordano Bruno Guerri was the Guest of Honor of the gala evening, awarded for the section "culture". Other awards for "music",...

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Image at sunset of the Casalvento cultivations under the snow with the city of Florence in the background against a cloudy sky, the FIPPO symbol and white writing: 50 years of distillation in Tuscany

presentation at the “1st Instant International Workshop on Essential Oil”

The first International Conference on Essential Oils organized by FIPPO took place from 2 to 5 March 2017 in the welcoming setting of the Cicalino estate in Massa Marittima. An audience of enthusiasts, companies, entrepreneurs and consultants enlivened the 4-day event in which the speeches took place. Numerous participation of Italian and foreign speakers who gave their contribution to the success of the meeting by involving the public even after the end...

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Profile picture of Lorenzo and Alessandro Domini who look at each other smiling with a white coat on a light blue background and interrogative writing mission impossible

believe in the impossible !

a theorem that has no beginning and perhaps no end. It is our character, we have it in our DNA, it must be taken as it is, it is unthinkable to stray from the trajectory of one's life and personality. We like the challenge, the will to make it, we don't fear the risk of climbing, any peak is a possible peak. It is not a simplistic approach to difficulties but we...

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Image of brown bottles with silver caps of liquid soap with silver boxes on a neutral gray background, a bunch of lavender flowers and two cypress berries

10s far beyond the possible …

the production expansion sees the planting of laurel, helichrysum cypress, fennel, juniper, broom, iris, hyssop, lavender (9 varieties), lemon balm, pine, dog rose, damascena rose, rosemary, sage, thyme and saffron at a constant pace. The extractions become green to respect the environment and the need for modernization. The most modern production techniques are used. There are 7 machines installed, equipped with different technologies and managed by electronic PLC cores to control...

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Aerial view of the green vineyards and blue lavender fields of Casalvento in the middle of islands of dense woodland and the production center of the company with the large distillery

00s: the new Millennium

with the new millennium everything has changed: let's put into practice those important restructurings that enhance productivity. The vineyards are uprooted and replanted, the olive groves expanded, the crops of aromatic plants reorganized according to advanced technical criteria, we design and build the new distillation systems, we create the new nursery ...

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Aerial image in black and white elaborated with indication of the cultivated areas of the Casalvento farm indicated with yellow, red, blue, green and lilac colors with white writing the power of ideas

90s: the power of ideas

the structural reorganization after the crisis has taken our whole family 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 necessary, as well as faith in the future and in one's own convictions. Agronomic studies have been...

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