The Ardoino family of Liguria started making olive oil around the 1870’s from a combination of the prized taggiasche olive and other locally grown varieties. In the 1920’s the company began exporting olive oil exclusively to the United States and despite the interruptions of two World Wars, earned a reputation as one of the finest “Négociants Eleveurs” merchants of extra virgin olive oil. In the early 1970s the Isnardi family took over the company and has been running the operation true to its history ever since.