{"id":2251,"date":"2022-10-07T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moulinboudoire.fr\/our-history\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T18:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T16:59:24","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.moulinboudoire.fr\/en\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our history"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Our history<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A little history <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The oil mill in Merindol was built in the 17th<\/sup> century and juxtaposed the first Protestant temple in the village.
With its vaulted 140m2<\/sup> room, it belonged to clerics for centuries. It was both the place where the oil was made during the olive season and also a communal meeting room for the villagers when asked by the Lord of the village.
It was a \u00ab blood mill \u00bb for many years and around 1910 it was bought by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Boudoire who continued its activity with his son Gabriel.
The first electric machines arrived in 1950 and oil making continued with Gabriel’s sons Yvon and Pierrot.
In 1956 the trees were destroyed by a heavy frost and it was only 7 years later that the machines were started up again. Modernisation continued but in 1998 the building and the fabrication of oil had to come up to the HACCP standards.
A few years later Yves Boudoire and Francine Boudoire took over from their parents.
Today it is Yves and his son J\u00e9r\u00e9my who are carrying on the know how and the culture of taste.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How our oil is made<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The production of olive oil\u2026 over the centuries\u2026<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In our area the variety Aglandau Salonenque are picked from the 20th October until around the middle of December.<\/p>\n

As the olives come into the mill they are stored in crates called \u00ab palox \u00bb containing 350 kilos of olives. Oil production starts within a maximum of 48 hours except for olives destined for \u00ab black fruity \u00bb oil.
5 different operations are necessary to obtain a drop of oil.<\/p>\n