Sabina is a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)

Protected Geographical Status

Protected Geographical Status is a legal framework defined in European Union law to protect the names of regional foods. Protected Designation of Origin , Protected Geographical Indication and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed are distinct regimes of geographical indications within the framework...

 extra virgin

Extra Virgin

Extra Virgin was the first release for British electronic trio Olive. This defined Olive's style, spawning three singles, "You're Not Alone" , "Outlaw", and "Miracle"...

 olive oil

Olive oil

Olive oil is an oil obtained from the olive , a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. It is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps...

 of the Sabina territory, extended approximately on the ancient territory of the ancient peoples Sabines, extended in the Province of Rome

Province of Rome

The Province of Rome , is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. The province can be viewed as the extended metropolitan area of the city of Rome, although in its more peripheral portions, especially to the north, it comprises towns surrounded by rural landscape.-Geography:The Province of Rome...

 and of the Province of Rieti

Province of Rieti

The Province of Rieti is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rieti.It has an area of 2,749 km², and a total population of 153,258 . There are 73 comuni in the province, see Comuni of the Province of Rieti.It was founded in 1927.-External links:*...

. Considered as the first Italian PDO to gain the status.

Production area: Sabina

The production area of the PDO extra virgin olive oil is mainly in two provices, Rieti and Rome, and follows the borders of the ancient Sabine territory.

Techniques used to produce the oil are almost the same as in Pre-Roman times, with the necessary technological innovations.

For the production of the extra virgin olive oil Sabina the soil and the mild climate are of fundamental importance.

Municipalities in the Province of Rieti

The following municipalities within the Province of Rieti are area of production of the Sabina:
Cantalupo in Sabina

Cantalupo in Sabina

Cantalupo in Sabina is a town and comune in the province of Rieti, on the Sabine Hills of Lazio. It is famous as the reputed origin of the muskmelon called a cantaloupe melon....

, Casaprota

Casaprota

Casaprota is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti.-External links:*...

, Casperia

Casperia

Casperia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti...

, Castelnuovo di Farfa

Castelnuovo di Farfa

Castelnuovo di Farfa is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti.-References:...

, Collevecchio

Collevecchio

Collevecchio is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 70 km north of Rome and 45 km of Rieti. It is part of upper Sabina, between the Tiber River valley and the Monti Sabini....

, Configni

Configni

Configni is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km north of Rome and about 20 km west of Rieti....

, Cottanello

Cottanello

Cottanello is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km north of Rome and about 15 km west of Rieti.-External links:*...

, Fara Sabina, Forano

Forano

Forano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km north of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti...

, Frasso Sabino

Frasso Sabino

Frasso Sabino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti....

, Magliano Sabina

Magliano Sabina

Magliano Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 30 km west of Rieti...

, Mompeo

Mompeo

Mompeo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti....

, Montasola

Montasola

Montasola is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km west of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 379 and an area of 12.6 km²....

, Montebuono

Montebuono

Montebuono is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 20 km west of Rieti....

, Monteleone Sabino

Monteleone Sabino

Monteleone Sabino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km south of Rieti....

, Montenero Sabino

Montenero Sabino

Montenero Sabino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 14 km southwest of Rieti....

,
Montopoli in Sabina, Poggio Catino

Poggio Catino

Poggio Catino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti...

, Poggio Mirteto

Poggio Mirteto

Poggio Mirteto is a comune in the province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti, situated on a height by the River Sole, in a fertile region, where pot-herbs, cereals, grapes and pastures are cultivated, and where...

, Poggio Moiano

Poggio Moiano

Poggio Moiano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km south of Rieti...

, Poggio Nativo

Poggio Nativo

Poggio Nativo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti....

, Poggio San Lorenzo

Poggio San Lorenzo

Poggio San Lorenzo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km south of Rieti....

, Roccantica

Roccantica

Roccantica is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km southwest of Rieti....

, Salisano

Salisano

Salisano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti.-External links:*...

, Scandriglia

Scandriglia

Scandriglia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 25 km south of Rieti....

, Selci

Selci

Selci is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km north of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,038 and an area of 7.8 km²....

, Stimigliano

Stimigliano

Stimigliano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km north of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,828 and an area of 11.4 km²....

, Tarano

Tarano

Tarano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 25 km west of Rieti...

, Toffia

Toffia

Toffia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 948 and an area of 11.2 km²....

, Torricella

Torricella in Sabina

Torricella in Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km south of Rieti....

, Torri in Sabina

Torri in Sabina

Torri in Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti. It is part of the Sabina traditional region....

, Vacone

Vacone

Vacone is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km north of Rome and about 20 km west of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 264 and an area of 9.1 km²....

.

Municipalities in the Province of Rome

In the Province of Rome:
Guidonia Montecelio

Guidonia Montecelio

Guidonia Montecelio is a town and comune in the province of Rome, Lazio, central Italy.- Geography :The community of Guidonia Montecelio lies to the north-east of Rome, some kilometres from the Grande Raccordo Anulare - a ring-shaped motorway which forms a circle around the capital...

, Fonte Nuova

Fonte Nuova

Fonte Nuova is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about 15 km northeast of Rome.The comune was created in 2001 from the frazioni of Tor Lupara di Mentana and Santa Lucia di Mentana, once belonging to Mentana, and that of Tor Lupara of Guidonia...

, Marcellina

Marcellina

Marcellina is a comune in the province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 30 km northeast of Rome....

, Mentana

Mentana

Mentana is a town and comune in the province of Rome, Lazio, central Italy.-History:Mentana's name in ancient times was Nomentum, to which the Via Nomentana led from Rome. According to Livy, the town was part of the Latin League, which went to war with Rome during the reign of Rome's king Lucius...

, Monteflavio

Monteflavio

Monteflavio is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Monteflavio borders the following municipalities: Licenza, Montorio Romano, Moricone, Palombara Sabina, San Polo dei Cavalieri, Scandriglia.- Festival:During the "Polenta"...

, Montelibretti

Montelibretti

Montelibretti is a town and comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about 30 km northeast of Rome on the slopes of Monti Sabini....

, Monterotondo

Monterotondo

-History:According to some historians, Monterotondo is the heir of ancient Sabine town of Eretum, although the modern settlement appeared in the 10th-11th centuries in a different location...

, Montorio Romano

Montorio Romano

Montorio Romano is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Montorio Romano borders the following municipalities: Monteflavio, Montelibretti, Moricone, Nerola, Scandriglia....

, Moricone

Moricone

Moricone is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Moricone borders the following municipalities: Monteflavio, Montelibretti, Montorio Romano, Palombara Sabina....

, Nerola

Nerola

Castello Orsini of Nerola.|thumb|leftNerola is a city and comune of 1,419 inhabitants of the province of Rome, Latium, Italy.-History:The name Nerola is probably derived from the Sabine word nero or nerio, which meant "strong" and "brave"...

, Palombara Sabina

Palombara Sabina

- Main sights:*Savelli-Torlonia Castle, built from the 11th century by the Ottaviani, a branch of the Crescentii family of Rome. Antipope Innocent III was arrested here in 1180. It was acquired by Luca Savelli, a nephew of pope Honorius III, in 1250, whence the current name...

, Sant'Angelo Romano

Sant'Angelo Romano

Sant'Angelo Romano is a town and comune in Latium, Italy, administratively part of the province of Rome. It has 3,078 inhabitants as of 2001...

, San Polo dei Cavalieri

San Polo dei Cavalieri

San Polo dei Cavalieri is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 30 km northeast of Rome....

 (località Caprareccia e territorio non oltre i 475 metri di altitudine), Roma

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 (parzialmente il territorio del Nord-Est).

Cultivar

The characterizing cultivar

Cultivar

A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...

 are:

• Carboncella
• Leccino
• Raja
  Raja
  Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna...
  
  
• Pendolino
  Pendolino
  Pendolino is an Italian family of tilting trains used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Russian Federation, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Switzerland, China and shortly in Romania and Poland...
  
  
• Frantoio
• Moraiolo
• Olivastrone
• Salviana
• Olivago and Rosciola

Organoleptic traits

Organoleptic traits:

• color: yellow - green with golden nuances.
• aroma: fruity;
• taste: fruity, velvet, uniform, aromatic, sweet, bitter and piquant for the just pressed oils;
• panel test: median in fruity > 0 e median of difect = 0;
• maximum acidity in total expressed in oleic acid, in weight, not exceeding grams 0,6 per 100 grams of oil;
• number of peroxides £ 14 Meq0 2 /kg.;
• minimum oleic acid 68%.

Sabina (PDO) is a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)

Protected Geographical Status

Protected Geographical Status is a legal framework defined in European Union law to protect the names of regional foods. Protected Designation of Origin , Protected Geographical Indication and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed are distinct regimes of geographical indications within the framework...

 extra virgin

Extra Virgin

Extra Virgin was the first release for British electronic trio Olive. This defined Olive's style, spawning three singles, "You're Not Alone" , "Outlaw", and "Miracle"...

 olive oil

Olive oil

Olive oil is an oil obtained from the olive , a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. It is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps...

 of the Sabina territory, extended approximately on the ancient territory of the ancient peoples Sabines, extended in the Province of Rome

Province of Rome

The Province of Rome , is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. The province can be viewed as the extended metropolitan area of the city of Rome, although in its more peripheral portions, especially to the north, it comprises towns surrounded by rural landscape.-Geography:The Province of Rome...

 and of the Province of Rieti

Province of Rieti

The Province of Rieti is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rieti.It has an area of 2,749 km², and a total population of 153,258 . There are 73 comuni in the province, see Comuni of the Province of Rieti.It was founded in 1927.-External links:*...

. Considered as the first Italian PDO to gain the status.

Production area: Sabina

The production area of the PDO extra virgin olive oil is mainly in two provices, Rieti and Rome, and follows the borders of the ancient Sabine territory.

Techniques used to produce the oil are almost the same as in Pre-Roman times, with the necessary technological innovations.

For the production of the extra virgin olive oil Sabina the soil and the mild climate are of fundamental importance.

Municipalities in the Province of Rieti

The following municipalities within the Province of Rieti are area of production of the Sabina:
Cantalupo in Sabina

Cantalupo in Sabina

Cantalupo in Sabina is a town and comune in the province of Rieti, on the Sabine Hills of Lazio. It is famous as the reputed origin of the muskmelon called a cantaloupe melon....

, Casaprota

Casaprota

Casaprota is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti.-External links:*...

, Casperia

Casperia

Casperia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti...

, Castelnuovo di Farfa

Castelnuovo di Farfa

Castelnuovo di Farfa is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti.-References:...

, Collevecchio

Collevecchio

Collevecchio is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 70 km north of Rome and 45 km of Rieti. It is part of upper Sabina, between the Tiber River valley and the Monti Sabini....

, Configni

Configni

Configni is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km north of Rome and about 20 km west of Rieti....

, Cottanello

Cottanello

Cottanello is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km north of Rome and about 15 km west of Rieti.-External links:*...

, Fara Sabina, Forano

Forano

Forano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km north of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti...

, Frasso Sabino

Frasso Sabino

Frasso Sabino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti....

, Magliano Sabina

Magliano Sabina

Magliano Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 30 km west of Rieti...

, Mompeo

Mompeo

Mompeo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti....

, Montasola

Montasola

Montasola is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km west of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 379 and an area of 12.6 km²....

, Montebuono

Montebuono

Montebuono is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 20 km west of Rieti....

, Monteleone Sabino

Monteleone Sabino

Monteleone Sabino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km south of Rieti....

, Montenero Sabino

Montenero Sabino

Montenero Sabino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 14 km southwest of Rieti....

,
Montopoli in Sabina, Poggio Catino

Poggio Catino

Poggio Catino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti...

, Poggio Mirteto

Poggio Mirteto

Poggio Mirteto is a comune in the province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti, situated on a height by the River Sole, in a fertile region, where pot-herbs, cereals, grapes and pastures are cultivated, and where...

, Poggio Moiano

Poggio Moiano

Poggio Moiano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km south of Rieti...

, Poggio Nativo

Poggio Nativo

Poggio Nativo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti....

, Poggio San Lorenzo

Poggio San Lorenzo

Poggio San Lorenzo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km south of Rieti....

, Roccantica

Roccantica

Roccantica is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km southwest of Rieti....

, Salisano

Salisano

Salisano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti.-External links:*...

, Scandriglia

Scandriglia

Scandriglia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 25 km south of Rieti....

, Selci

Selci

Selci is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km north of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,038 and an area of 7.8 km²....

, Stimigliano

Stimigliano

Stimigliano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km north of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,828 and an area of 11.4 km²....

, Tarano

Tarano

Tarano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 25 km west of Rieti...

, Toffia

Toffia

Toffia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 948 and an area of 11.2 km²....

, Torricella

Torricella in Sabina

Torricella in Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km south of Rieti....

, Torri in Sabina

Torri in Sabina

Torri in Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti. It is part of the Sabina traditional region....

, Vacone

Vacone

Vacone is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km north of Rome and about 20 km west of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 264 and an area of 9.1 km²....

.

Municipalities in the Province of Rome

In the Province of Rome:
Guidonia Montecelio

Guidonia Montecelio

Guidonia Montecelio is a town and comune in the province of Rome, Lazio, central Italy.- Geography :The community of Guidonia Montecelio lies to the north-east of Rome, some kilometres from the Grande Raccordo Anulare - a ring-shaped motorway which forms a circle around the capital...

, Fonte Nuova

Fonte Nuova

Fonte Nuova is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about 15 km northeast of Rome.The comune was created in 2001 from the frazioni of Tor Lupara di Mentana and Santa Lucia di Mentana, once belonging to Mentana, and that of Tor Lupara of Guidonia...

, Marcellina

Marcellina

Marcellina is a comune in the province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 30 km northeast of Rome....

, Mentana

Mentana

Mentana is a town and comune in the province of Rome, Lazio, central Italy.-History:Mentana's name in ancient times was Nomentum, to which the Via Nomentana led from Rome. According to Livy, the town was part of the Latin League, which went to war with Rome during the reign of Rome's king Lucius...

, Monteflavio

Monteflavio

Monteflavio is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Monteflavio borders the following municipalities: Licenza, Montorio Romano, Moricone, Palombara Sabina, San Polo dei Cavalieri, Scandriglia.- Festival:During the "Polenta"...

, Montelibretti

Montelibretti

Montelibretti is a town and comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about 30 km northeast of Rome on the slopes of Monti Sabini....

, Monterotondo

Monterotondo

-History:According to some historians, Monterotondo is the heir of ancient Sabine town of Eretum, although the modern settlement appeared in the 10th-11th centuries in a different location...

, Montorio Romano

Montorio Romano

Montorio Romano is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Montorio Romano borders the following municipalities: Monteflavio, Montelibretti, Moricone, Nerola, Scandriglia....

, Moricone

Moricone

Moricone is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Moricone borders the following municipalities: Monteflavio, Montelibretti, Montorio Romano, Palombara Sabina....

, Nerola

Nerola

Castello Orsini of Nerola.|thumb|leftNerola is a city and comune of 1,419 inhabitants of the province of Rome, Latium, Italy.-History:The name Nerola is probably derived from the Sabine word nero or nerio, which meant "strong" and "brave"...

, Palombara Sabina

Palombara Sabina

- Main sights:*Savelli-Torlonia Castle, built from the 11th century by the Ottaviani, a branch of the Crescentii family of Rome. Antipope Innocent III was arrested here in 1180. It was acquired by Luca Savelli, a nephew of pope Honorius III, in 1250, whence the current name...

, Sant'Angelo Romano

Sant'Angelo Romano

Sant'Angelo Romano is a town and comune in Latium, Italy, administratively part of the province of Rome. It has 3,078 inhabitants as of 2001...

, San Polo dei Cavalieri

San Polo dei Cavalieri

San Polo dei Cavalieri is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 30 km northeast of Rome....

 (località Caprareccia e territorio non oltre i 475 metri di altitudine), Roma

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 (parzialmente il territorio del Nord-Est).

Cultivar

The characterizing cultivar

Cultivar

A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...

 are:

• Carboncella
• Leccino
• Raja
  Raja
  Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna...
  
  
• Pendolino
  Pendolino
  Pendolino is an Italian family of tilting trains used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Russian Federation, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Switzerland, China and shortly in Romania and Poland...
  
  
• Frantoio
• Moraiolo
• Olivastrone
• Salviana
• Olivago and Rosciola

Organoleptic traits

Organoleptic traits:

• color: yellow - green with golden nuances.
• aroma: fruity;
• taste: fruity, velvet, uniform, aromatic, sweet, bitter and piquant for the just pressed oils;
• panel test: median in fruity > 0 e median of difect = 0;
• maximum acidity in total expressed in oleic acid, in weight, not exceeding grams 0,6 per 100 grams of oil;
• number of peroxides £ 14 Meq0 2 /kg.;
• minimum oleic acid 68%.

Sabina (PDO) is a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)

Protected Geographical Status

Protected Geographical Status is a legal framework defined in European Union law to protect the names of regional foods. Protected Designation of Origin , Protected Geographical Indication and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed are distinct regimes of geographical indications within the framework...

 extra virgin

Extra Virgin

Extra Virgin was the first release for British electronic trio Olive. This defined Olive's style, spawning three singles, "You're Not Alone" , "Outlaw", and "Miracle"...

 olive oil

Olive oil

Olive oil is an oil obtained from the olive , a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. It is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps...

 of the Sabina territory, extended approximately on the ancient territory of the ancient peoples Sabines, extended in the Province of Rome

Province of Rome

The Province of Rome , is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. The province can be viewed as the extended metropolitan area of the city of Rome, although in its more peripheral portions, especially to the north, it comprises towns surrounded by rural landscape.-Geography:The Province of Rome...

 and of the Province of Rieti

Province of Rieti

The Province of Rieti is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rieti.It has an area of 2,749 km², and a total population of 153,258 . There are 73 comuni in the province, see Comuni of the Province of Rieti.It was founded in 1927.-External links:*...

. Considered as the first Italian PDO to gain the status.

Production area: Sabina

The production area of the PDO extra virgin olive oil is mainly in two provices, Rieti and Rome, and follows the borders of the ancient Sabine territory.

Techniques used to produce the oil are almost the same as in Pre-Roman times, with the necessary technological innovations.

For the production of the extra virgin olive oil Sabina the soil and the mild climate are of fundamental importance.

Municipalities in the Province of Rieti

The following municipalities within the Province of Rieti are area of production of the Sabina:
Cantalupo in Sabina

Cantalupo in Sabina

Cantalupo in Sabina is a town and comune in the province of Rieti, on the Sabine Hills of Lazio. It is famous as the reputed origin of the muskmelon called a cantaloupe melon....

, Casaprota

Casaprota

Casaprota is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti.-External links:*...

, Casperia

Casperia

Casperia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti...

, Castelnuovo di Farfa

Castelnuovo di Farfa

Castelnuovo di Farfa is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti.-References:...

, Collevecchio

Collevecchio

Collevecchio is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 70 km north of Rome and 45 km of Rieti. It is part of upper Sabina, between the Tiber River valley and the Monti Sabini....

, Configni

Configni

Configni is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km north of Rome and about 20 km west of Rieti....

, Cottanello

Cottanello

Cottanello is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km north of Rome and about 15 km west of Rieti.-External links:*...

, Fara Sabina, Forano

Forano

Forano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km north of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti...

, Frasso Sabino

Frasso Sabino

Frasso Sabino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti....

, Magliano Sabina

Magliano Sabina

Magliano Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 30 km west of Rieti...

, Mompeo

Mompeo

Mompeo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti....

, Montasola

Montasola

Montasola is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km west of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 379 and an area of 12.6 km²....

, Montebuono

Montebuono

Montebuono is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 20 km west of Rieti....

, Monteleone Sabino

Monteleone Sabino

Monteleone Sabino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km south of Rieti....

, Montenero Sabino

Montenero Sabino

Montenero Sabino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 14 km southwest of Rieti....

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Montopoli in Sabina, Poggio Catino

Poggio Catino

Poggio Catino is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti...

, Poggio Mirteto

Poggio Mirteto

Poggio Mirteto is a comune in the province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti, situated on a height by the River Sole, in a fertile region, where pot-herbs, cereals, grapes and pastures are cultivated, and where...

, Poggio Moiano

Poggio Moiano

Poggio Moiano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km south of Rieti...

, Poggio Nativo

Poggio Nativo

Poggio Nativo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti....

, Poggio San Lorenzo

Poggio San Lorenzo

Poggio San Lorenzo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km south of Rieti....

, Roccantica

Roccantica

Roccantica is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km southwest of Rieti....

, Salisano

Salisano

Salisano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti.-External links:*...

, Scandriglia

Scandriglia

Scandriglia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 25 km south of Rieti....

, Selci

Selci

Selci is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km north of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,038 and an area of 7.8 km²....

, Stimigliano

Stimigliano

Stimigliano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km north of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,828 and an area of 11.4 km²....

, Tarano

Tarano

Tarano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 25 km west of Rieti...

, Toffia

Toffia

Toffia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 25 km southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 948 and an area of 11.2 km²....

, Torricella

Torricella in Sabina

Torricella in Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km northeast of Rome and about 15 km south of Rieti....

, Torri in Sabina

Torri in Sabina

Torri in Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti. It is part of the Sabina traditional region....

, Vacone

Vacone

Vacone is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 60 km north of Rome and about 20 km west of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 264 and an area of 9.1 km²....

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Municipalities in the Province of Rome

In the Province of Rome:
Guidonia Montecelio

Guidonia Montecelio

Guidonia Montecelio is a town and comune in the province of Rome, Lazio, central Italy.- Geography :The community of Guidonia Montecelio lies to the north-east of Rome, some kilometres from the Grande Raccordo Anulare - a ring-shaped motorway which forms a circle around the capital...

, Fonte Nuova

Fonte Nuova

Fonte Nuova is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about 15 km northeast of Rome.The comune was created in 2001 from the frazioni of Tor Lupara di Mentana and Santa Lucia di Mentana, once belonging to Mentana, and that of Tor Lupara of Guidonia...

, Marcellina

Marcellina

Marcellina is a comune in the province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 30 km northeast of Rome....

, Mentana

Mentana

Mentana is a town and comune in the province of Rome, Lazio, central Italy.-History:Mentana's name in ancient times was Nomentum, to which the Via Nomentana led from Rome. According to Livy, the town was part of the Latin League, which went to war with Rome during the reign of Rome's king Lucius...

, Monteflavio

Monteflavio

Monteflavio is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Monteflavio borders the following municipalities: Licenza, Montorio Romano, Moricone, Palombara Sabina, San Polo dei Cavalieri, Scandriglia.- Festival:During the "Polenta"...

, Montelibretti

Montelibretti

Montelibretti is a town and comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about 30 km northeast of Rome on the slopes of Monti Sabini....

, Monterotondo

Monterotondo

-History:According to some historians, Monterotondo is the heir of ancient Sabine town of Eretum, although the modern settlement appeared in the 10th-11th centuries in a different location...

, Montorio Romano

Montorio Romano

Montorio Romano is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Montorio Romano borders the following municipalities: Monteflavio, Montelibretti, Moricone, Nerola, Scandriglia....

, Moricone

Moricone

Moricone is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Moricone borders the following municipalities: Monteflavio, Montelibretti, Montorio Romano, Palombara Sabina....

, Nerola

Nerola

Castello Orsini of Nerola.|thumb|leftNerola is a city and comune of 1,419 inhabitants of the province of Rome, Latium, Italy.-History:The name Nerola is probably derived from the Sabine word nero or nerio, which meant "strong" and "brave"...

, Palombara Sabina

Palombara Sabina

- Main sights:*Savelli-Torlonia Castle, built from the 11th century by the Ottaviani, a branch of the Crescentii family of Rome. Antipope Innocent III was arrested here in 1180. It was acquired by Luca Savelli, a nephew of pope Honorius III, in 1250, whence the current name...

, Sant'Angelo Romano

Sant'Angelo Romano

Sant'Angelo Romano is a town and comune in Latium, Italy, administratively part of the province of Rome. It has 3,078 inhabitants as of 2001...

, San Polo dei Cavalieri

San Polo dei Cavalieri

San Polo dei Cavalieri is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 30 km northeast of Rome....

 (località Caprareccia e territorio non oltre i 475 metri di altitudine), Roma

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 (parzialmente il territorio del Nord-Est).

Cultivar

The characterizing cultivar

Cultivar

A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...

 are:

• Carboncella
• Leccino
• Raja
  Raja
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• Pendolino
  Pendolino
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• Frantoio
• Moraiolo
• Olivastrone
• Salviana
• Olivago and Rosciola

Organoleptic traits

Organoleptic traits:

• color: yellow - green with golden nuances.
• aroma: fruity;
• taste: fruity, velvet, uniform, aromatic, sweet, bitter and piquant for the just pressed oils;
• panel test: median in fruity > 0 e median of difect = 0;
• maximum acidity in total expressed in oleic acid, in weight, not exceeding grams 0,6 per 100 grams of oil;
• number of peroxides £ 14 Meq0 2 /kg.;
• minimum oleic acid 68%.