Marsala, and Olive Oil
We're in lovely, less touristy, Marsala where my maternal grandparents were from. People seem friendlier. We like it so much we decided to extend our stay to a week. One of the highlights for us so far was an olive oil tour and tasting at Oleificio Fratelli Mezzapelle (the Mezzapelle Brothers Oil Mill), producers of Donna Giacoma olive oils. I use olive oil all the time, so we wanted to see how it's made and to taste it at its freshest. Since we didn't have transportation and there are no buses out to the mill, Diego, one of the brothers, kindly arranged for his brother Michael to pick us up in Marsala and bring us out for the tour. The first thing they did was show us the olive trees and explain to us how various trees produce different flavored olives. They showed us ancient grinding stones used in the past and then they took us into their modern factory where the oil is separated from the olive in a very high tech way. ...