
Meet Frantoio Batta — Perugia’s Paradise, Family Legacy & A Medium-Fruity Gem (March 2026)
We were greeted at the door by Giuliana — elegant, warm, passionate, and every bit the embodiment of a true Frantoiana. From that first moment, we knew we were stepping into something special: a family legacy nearly a century old, rooted in some of the most fertile land in all of Umbria. A Farm Born in “Earthly Paradise” Frantoio Batta sits on the ancient San Girolamo road, between Ponte San Giovanni and Perugia — land so rich and abundant that 16th-century writer and cartographer Cipriano Piccolpasso described it as: “A valley filled with fruits, olive trees, vineyards… truly an earthly paradise.” The property was once owned by the Vatican It