life.Vieni a vivere.Step beyond the bottle and into the hills above Messina — where the oil is pressed, the olives are tended, and a centuries-old way of life still keeps its own time. A handful of guests, by arrangement only.
Where the oil begins — between the grain and the grove.
Walk the Mandanici mill with the family that has run it for seventy years — the stone wheels, the presses, the story, the craft. During the harvest, in October and November, the mill runs in full flow; by special booking you can witness the first cold press and taste the oil moments after it is drawn.
An afternoon with Sicily's ancient grains. Mill them the old way into flour, then work it by hand into fresh pasta and bread — the techniques of the hills, taught at the mill and carried to the table.
A walk through the estate above Castroreale — the groves, the terraces and the historic buildings now being lovingly redeveloped. A first glimpse of what Castruriali is becoming, before the world arrives.
Reside among the groves in the medieval village of Castroreale. Wake to the terraces, dine on the harvest and let the rhythm of the estate become your own for a few unhurried days.
Cook alongside a Sicilian home cook, the table built around our oil and the produce of the hills. A long lunch follows, poured generously, as every Sicilian table should be.
A guided tasting through our cultivars and single-press oils — Nocellara, Cerasuola, Biancolilla and the rare Castricianella (Castriciana Rapparina) — led by our team, in Castroreale or at a venue of your choosing.
For clients and connoisseurs, we compose entirely private itineraries — intimate weddings among the olive groves, harvest-day immersions, yoga beneath the ancient trees and bespoke bottlings engraved with your name. Tell us what you have in mind and we will quietly arrange what we can.
Across Sicily, millions of olive trees stand abandoned — among them rare and near-extinct varieties like the Castricianella (Castriciana Rapparina), found almost nowhere else on earth. Friends of Castruriali is our initiative to bring them back to life. Adopt a tree of your own and you restore a piece of this landscape — and gain a living root in Sicily.
As a Friend, you also enjoy a standing discount on our oil — for life — with the code FRIEND15.
A single olive tree in the Castroreale hills becomes yours to sponsor for the year.
Your tree carries a personal QR tag — scan it to follow your sapling's progress, and find it again when you visit.
Each season we send a special Castruriali box — a bottle from the harvest, and word of how your tree fares.
Come and stand beneath your tree whenever you wish — it will be waiting, and so will we.
Tell us a little of what you have in mind. Every Castruriali experience and adoption is arranged personally — we will reply within two working days.
Every experience begins with the trees themselves. Discover the native Sicilian varieties in our single-origin cuvée — and the rare one we are working to save.
Every bottle of Castruriali sold funds the restoration of Sicily's neglected olive trees — and the rescue of cultivars on the edge of extinction.
Letters from Castroreale — the harvest, the mill and the trees we are bringing back to life.
