Our story begins with Tommaso Olivastri (Senior) grandfather of Tommaso Olivastri (Junior) who has been the founder of the Olivastri Winery of which he is now the owner. Born in 1890 from a agricultural laborers family, in 1910 he landed as an emigrant in Boston, returning in Italy few years later to buy his first properties in San Vito, then lost due to the war. From 1915 to 1918 he was, in fact, recruited as soldier in the First World War, and for his merits he was awarded with the honor of Knight of the Order of Vittorio Veneto. After the war, he worked as a sharecropper in the properties of local Lord, dealing with the cultivation of grapevines, olive trees and wheat, as well as livestock breeding. With the sacrifice of a lot of work, he managed to buy a house and one hectare vineyard.

Born in Canada, Tommaso (Antonio's firstborn) carries on the family grape growing tradition with determined passion. Headstrong, perspicacious and faithful to 'know-how' in the vineyard handed down, he puts in place his idea of viticulture: a quality project, aimed at obtaining rich, healthy grapes with an identity profile, custodians of his careful work and the territorial uniqueness of those vineyards set between the hill and the sea. Firmly convinced that the potential of the territory must be sought in its tradition, since the 80s he chooses to cultivate only the ancient native vines of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo and Trebbiano. In 1989 he bought L’Ariosa estates, located in a lucky position close to the sea, devoted with great intuition to the cultivation of the white grapes of Pecorino, Passerina and Cococciola.