The Castruriali GroupIl Gruppo Castruriali

A house of Sicilian ventures.Una casa di avventure siciliane.

Castruriali began with a single bottle of olive oil and a promise to bring abandoned groves back to life. The Group is the family that holds that promise. And the home for the ventures we build around it, each held to the same craft and the same care.

One standard, wherever we work

Every venture under the Group is held to the same uncompromising quality: single-origin, traceable and made by hand, from Sicily to Pakistan.

Built to give back

Social impact is a core feature of every Castruriali Group business: 100% positive, from the product to the way it is made. Part of our profits goes back to the land and is invested locally.

Family-held, for the long term

We are not built to flip. The Group is family-led and patient, measuring success in generations of trees, not quarters.

How it began

A mango farm that never was

My dream was always to own a mango farm. For years I wanted to go to Pakistan, a country I have a connection to, buy farmland and plant mango trees. But at the time, the cost and the logistics of farming on the other side of the world put it out of reach: a distant dream from a career in corporate finance.

One day, having had enough of the toxic, heavily regulated world of UK banking, I had a moment of clarity. Pakistan and mangoes might be a distant dream, but Sicily and its olives needed urgent attention. Rather like Gandalf realising the Ring had been in the Shire all along, I rang Marco Rappazzo and said: we have to go to Castroreale. There we met Antonino Mandanici, who had already been on Marco's case about it. The rest is history.

Years later, with everything I have learnt about business, agriculture and farming, the dream came back into focus. Pakistan's mango farmers taught me a great deal about mangoes and welcomed me in, so we partnered up to bring the world the best of Pakistani mangoes. The dream of our own mango farm has not gone away either: we now have our own land at our site in Dharabi, where we are planting mango and other fruit trees. As it grows, Golden Multan will invest in mango orchards of its own.

Yazdaan HussainDirector and Co-Founder, Castruriali

Why we work with farmers across Sicily

Acting today, not when it is too late

Our own olive, the Castriciana Rapparina, also recorded as Castricianella, grows almost nowhere outside the hills above Castroreale. It is on the brink of extinction: fewer than twenty of these trees survive in our grove and they do not yet give enough oil to sell. We do press oil from our own olives, but not yet in any meaningful quantity.

The Rapparina came close to being lost because nobody acted in time. We will not make that mistake again. So Castruriali works with farmers and artisans right across Sicily, among them the Monte family near Salemi, who grew the olives for our current oil. Every bottle is produced in Castroreale by Antonino “Nino” Mandanici, known to many as Antonio. Born in the late 1940s, he brings more than 60 years of experience to it. Together we keep the island's craft, its land and its native olives alive.

We are restoring abandoned groves, protecting rare native cultivars and bringing work and a future back to rural Sicily, starting now. If we do not act, no one will.

The Rapparina story Sicilian olive varieties Adopt an olive tree

Our Brands

Made under one roof.

Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil · Made in Castroreale, Sicily

Castruriali is the brand that started the Group: single-origin Sicilian extra virgin olive oil, never blended. We work with farmers across the island; our current oil comes from the Monte family near Salemi. Every bottle is produced and hand-bottled in Castroreale by Antonino Mandanici, with more than 60 years of experience, using the latest cold-extraction technology from Pieralisi.

Our aim is to keep Sicily's olive trees and native cultivars alive, starting with our own, then to carry that work across the island and preserve 100% Sicilian heritage, craft and produce. Castruriali brings British quality and standards together with Sicilian artisan production to make food of the highest quality.

It is also the engine behind the Group's mission to restore Sicily's ancient groves. You can adopt an olive tree in Sicily, give corporate gifts that give back or book an olive oil tasting in Sicily.

New to Sicilian oil? Start with the guide to Sicilian olive varieties.

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Golden Multan: Pakistani dried mango

Pakistani Dried Mango · Multan & Rural Punjab

Golden Multan is the Group's developing-countries initiative. Pakistan grows some of the best mangoes and produce in the world. Golden Multan gives them the standards they deserve: single-variety Pakistani dried mango from the best farmers in the country, with Mr Durrani of Abdali Mango in Multan fully on board as our partner. Golden Multan only does mango: one product, made the best it can be.

It is a separate brand with its own home in Pakistan, creating skilled, handmade work for young people across rural Punjab and bringing British and Italian food standards together with Sicilian craft. The artisan skills behind ‘Made in Italy’ are fading as Italy's craftspeople grow older, so we are passing them on where the opportunity is needed most, raising standards in Pakistan and bringing exceptional produce to the UK and the USA.

Golden Multan is made in small batches and handcrafted. We deliberately avoid industrial processing machinery: Pakistan is full of hidden gems, among them some of the most talented people we have worked with anywhere. It is time the world recognised them. Too often multinational brands have bought Pakistan's produce cheaply and sold it on under other names. We are here to show how premium Pakistan can be when a group that makes its olive oil 100% in Sicily for Great Britain enters the frame. Yazdaan Hussain and Marco Rappazzo, Agricultural Steward and Head Farmer of Castruriali, cut and dry the mangoes themselves and train every member of the team. Golden Multan is premium because of the people who make it, the opposite of brands built on cheap labour. Every pouch also plants and tends one fruit tree in Pakistan.

The British came to Pakistan once before. In 2027 we return. This time we are not taking the jewels home: we are helping Pakistan show the world one of its own.

This is our social responsibility in practice: a demonstration of what is possible when different cultures combine. We are a progressive group: we want to push the bounds and change what is possible.

It began with olives. Chakwal, Golden Multan's home, is known as the olive capital of Punjab, where Pakistani olives are grown and Pakistani olive oil is made, at the centre of the country's national drive to plant 10 million olive trees by 2030. Yazdaan Hussain first went there to consult local olive farmers and growers, bringing what he has learnt with Antonino Mandanici, Marco Rappazzo and Castruriali. Today we work in the region on the research and development of local olive varieties. We help farmers with olive diseases, grafting and pressing. About 45 minutes from Islamabad airport, it was the natural base. Read our mission.

Castruriali is 100% made in Italy: Italian craftsmanship held to British standards and expectations. With Golden Multan we want to see what Pakistan's produce can offer when it is dealt the same hand.

The exchange runs both ways. As the climate warms, our Roots programme is exploring growing mango varieties in Sicily, beside our olive groves.

Anwar Ratol, White Chaunsa and Sindhri, each named on its own pouch. Reservations are open for the 2027 harvest. Read the guide to Pakistani mango varieties.

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Our Roots programme

Founding Leaf is how the Group gives back to the land: cultivating and preserving neglected groves. It starts in Castroreale in Sicily and will roll out to every nation we operate in.

We are not a charity. A share of our profits goes back to the land and is invested locally. Those funds are actively reinvested in the groves, preserving quality and heritage while keeping long-term costs down, so our products stay more affordable for our customers. Founding Leaf companies and the Founding Leaf Fund add to that work. In Pakistan, Golden Multan plants and tends one fruit tree for every pouch it sells.

As Sicily’s climate warms, we are also exploring which mango varieties could grow there, drawing on what we are learning in Pakistan with Golden Multan.

The Founding Leaf Fund

Further Ventures

The next roots are going in.

The Group is growing carefully. New ventures (in produce, hospitality and Sicilian craft) are taking shape and will be announced here as they ripen. If you build something with the same standards and would like to join the family, write to us.

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