The production comes from the beautiful hills around Castello Monte Vibiana Vecchio just outside of Perugia. Umbria have often been called the green heart of Italy with it's panoramic hillsides with sceneries of sunflowers, wineyards and olive trees. It is considered one of the finest and best agricultural areas of Italy. Lorenzo started at 16 years old to organize sports events for the city of Perugia, then the region of Umbria and finally all over Italy. For many years he was a radio speaker and journalist until. 10 years ago he decided to return to his family business that he grew up in and focus on introducing his olive oil and wine on a worldwide scale. His unfiltered first press olive oil, produced and marketed frozen in small single portion bottles, is unique and is served in some of the best restaurants, hotels and first class airline catering, both in Europe and USA. It was recently named the best olive oil in the world by the International Olive Oil Competition "ARMONIA". Several television programs have featured his green gold, among them the globally distributed CNN Traveller. Lorenzo modernized the wines of Castello Monte Vibiano Vecchio. Umbria is considered the next big wine region in Italy geographically, with some of the greatest of Italian wines, both white and red coming from the region. His reds wines have gotten rave reviews in the international press, especially the L'Andrea a unique blend containing the Umbrian grape Sagrantino and Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Sangiovese grapes. Lorenzo is a great enthusiast of Umbrian Cuisine and of course all of Italy. He has traveled all over the world to demonstrate the olive oil, food and wines from his home region. He has held numerous cooking classes of Italian and Umbrian food in his home, introducing amongst others journalists and his clients worldwide to the magic of Umbrian olive oil, food and wine. Those events have appeared in various TV shows and high style magazines in many countries. It’s thanks to Lorenzo’s great passion for the environment that on 5 February 2010 his company, olive oil and wine producing business "Monte Vibiano", became the first farm in Italy and one of the first in the world to achieve 0 greenhouse emissions and to be certified number /0000001 in 2009 ISO 14064 from DNV. Two years after launching the ‘360 Green Revolution, an all-encompassing ecological plan that turned Monte Vibiano into an eco-sustainable company, and pledging to annul dangerous emissions by 2009, Lorenzo kept his promise: Monte Vibiano went from 287 tons of CO2 in 2004 to -764 tonnellate of CO2 . Not an easy task, but then Lorenzo is not the type to shy away from a good challenge.