Casale Fallarese was built by our family in 1900 in the countryside of Tuscia, just north of Rome. At its center stands a cantina carved by hand by our great-great-grandfather Francesco — built to sustain the agricultural life of the estate, and still standing. Our family has tended it for over 125 years — harvesting the same trees, learning the same soil, reading the same seasons.

In 2026 my brother Luigi and I answer the land. Under Fesennia by Officine Petrucci, we are expanding the olive groves, planting lavender and rosemary, establishing bee colonies, and crafting botanical oils and grooming preparations. The saffron is already in the ground.

At the heart of this evolution is the press. Our family has harvested these olives for generations — but this November, for the first time, we press them ourselves. In stone, as it has always been done in this land — in a facility built to the standards of 2026, but rooted in a method that predates the estate itself.

Alongside this work, we have begun a collaboration with the University of Tuscia, supporting long-term research into soil stewardship, cultivation, and agricultural quality.

This is not conceived as a product launch. It is the continuation of a living place.

A small number of people will take part from the beginning. We are opening a Founding Agricultural Circle — by personal invitation.

Over five years, members receive an annual allocation from the land — twenty bottles of estate olive oil each year, alongside saffron, lavender products, honey, and botanical preparations.

Members are invited to stay at the casale — a residence I have designed that overlooks the groves — at any point during those five years, arriving with the seasons and walking the land. The house may be taken in full for a week, or visited across shorter stays, in whatever configuration suits the moment.

Each autumn, members are welcomed to the estate during the harvest — to spend time on the land and share a meal drawn from the land.

The first pressing will not come again. From that harvest each founding member receives one bottle, carved in Tuscia basalt stone. Numbered one through twenty. Filled from the inaugural pressing, drawn from the cantina. Unrepeatable.

The founding membership is €5,000.

I am reaching out to you directly. It would be an honor to have you among the founding members.

With gratitude,

Cardenio Petrucci