Formaggio Kitchen

Moulin Jean-Marie Cornille

Customers have long been making the pilgrimage to Moulin Jean-Marie Cornille and finally they asked us to bring this beautiful oil into our stores. Since then Cornille Mausanne des Alpilles has become the backbone of our oil selection.

This Moulin (mill) is one of the seven operational mills in the valley and it is considered the most prestigious of all. It becomes very clear once one tastes this oil. Mme. Ceysson uses 5 varieties of olives from the valley and crushes them under the granite mills to form a paste that is spread over the oil bags, then the oil bags are piled up and pressed once and only once. What we call a single cold pressing in order to obtain a natural, sweet, very fruity oil of golden green color that pairs beautifully with fish, meats, vegetables, simple greens and of course goat cheeses. As Mme. Ceysson say " Elle fait chanter le fromage de chevre" (She makes the goats cheese sing).