Azienda Agricola Francesco Gangemi, le produzioni al bergamotto di Reggio Calabria

I remember that my father took me with his child in the family land, in a district along the annunciation valley where our company is now in countless generations. What evokes a vivid memory in me is the collection of bergamot. The whole family handled for the harvest, he started early in the morning and returned to those who collected the most beautiful fruits and more fruit boxes. I remember what the intense scent that hovered for the orchard in me ... sensations of well-being and fullness that only such experiences can give and a single warning: never touch the face after touching bergamots, the essence would have spotted you Skin."" Growing this was my world and what I believed was the world, I did not understand the richness and uniqueness that our territory offered and because from distant and technological Germany attacked a fruit cultivated by great Greek soul workers who produced an essence Employed by French perfumers and the best perfumers in the world, bolting it as carcinogenic and proposing to replace it with a synthetic essence that obviously could not give the results hoped for them. We had a long period of total devaluation of the product, for many years we suffered fruits left to rot on the trees because they paid very little and because the industries did not work the bergamot by proposing producers to cut bergamots to engage oranges. Step and attached to your work, like my father, many other producers didn't listen to the venal advice of those who gave their higher opinions and even today thanks to them and their passion we can appreciate here and only here, florid bergamotes fruit of centuries that They become intense yellow in periods of harvesting with fruits up to 750-1000 g of copious on the bent branches until it breaks for the weight, which produce a unique essence in the world, the only essence that can be used in perfumes to improve their quality by fixing more For a long time the fragrances used for production and that no synthetic essence can ever replace. The company is located in the municipality of REGGIO CALABRIA, about 5 km from the sea and at an altitude that ranges between 200 and 600 meters, in a mountainous territory on the borders with the sea, geographical and microclimatic position ideal for the cultivation of the olive tree and citrus fruits, in the same valley and a few kilometers from where the first intensive bergamot plantation was implanted in 1750 from Nicola Parisi in the bottom of Rada Giunchi where today is located, the heart of the city of Reggio Calabria, lease and grafts attribute Just to our bergamots and tastes other than modern plants because descendants from ancient bergamots. The company was the first to market 100% pure bergamot juice directly obtained from its own organic bergamots and to obtain a wide range of more than 60 bergamoted products exclusively of corporate production.