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Flos Olei 2024, the 15th edition of the first and only guide dedicated to extra virgin olive oil internationally, is finally available. Once again this year’s volume, edited by Marco Oreggia and Laura Marinelli, features the 500 best olive farms selected from as many as 56 countries. A directory of the outstanding realities from every corner of the globe that constitutes the uniqueness of Flos Olei and aims to raise awareness of the world’s growing olive-growing heritage. This year’s new entry territory is Valle d’Aosta, which effectively joins the ranks of Italy’s olive-growing regions: a small production area, but a land where olive growing has its roots as far back as the Middle Ages. Accomplices for the recognition were the potential of the area, the interest shown by local people and, in part, changes due to the climate crisis.
“Despite a season that is certainly not easy both environmentally and economically ,” says Marco Oreggia, editor of the Flos Olei guide . Once again this year it was a pleasure to see the quality of the oils tasted. And it is a source of satisfaction to find so much interest in producers from all over the world who see our guide as an authoritative and safe reference. One thing that is certainly striking is the marked improvement in international production, indicative of professionalism, passion, investment and a constant commitment to the pursuit of excellence. Qualities that we do not cease to find globally, in all those realities – Italian and international – that make the production and storytelling of extra virgin olive oil an art and a way of life, as well as a source of health and gastronomic values“.
Italian and Spanish companies plus a new entry from Croatia make up the Hall of Fame in this edition of Flos Olei. The Italians are confirmed Azienda Agricola Comincioli (Lombardy), Bonamini oil mill (Veneto), Frantoio Franci (Tuscany), Azienda Agraria Viola (Umbria) and Americo Quattrociocchi (Lazio), as well as Spain’s Casas de Hualdo (Castilla-La Mancha), Castillo de Canena and Aceites Finca La Torre (Andalucía). Mate (Croatia) is the Istrian company that wins a place in the prestigious ranking.
Italy won no fewer than 11 awards in The Best: theCompany of the Year is Olio Mimì (Puglia), the Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil of the Year isAzienda Agricola Tommaso Masciantonio (Abruzzo), theGreen Company isAgricola Biologica Titone (Sicily), and the Emerging Companies are Passo della Palomba (Umbria) and Masoni Becciu (Sardinia). The Azienda del Cuore and Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Organic Farming awards went to Fonte di Foiano and Fattoria Ramerino (Tuscany), respectively. Also crowned within the different categories are the Italian Riva Oil Mill (Trentino Alto Adige), Gaudenzi oil mill, Decimi Farm (Umbria), Dievole (Tuscany) and Azienda Agricola Le Tre Colonne (Apulia), flanked by the Spanish Marqués de Griñon – Family Estate, Aceites Almenara (Castilla-La Mancha), O-Med, Rafael Alonso Aguilera – Oro del Desierto and Oleícola San Francisco (Andalucía). Closing the roundup is Portugal with Casa de Santo Amaro, Slovenia with Ekološka Kmetija Janko Bočaj, Greece with Hellenic Fields, and Argentina with Familia Zuccardi: each of these establishments received an award.
Flos Olei celebrates the production of excellence but also the popularization of the culture of the oil sector with various supply chain actors. It does so with Special Awards: The Journalist of the Year is Italy’s Francesco Cherubini of Olivo News, La Terrasse – Hotel Schloss Seefel (Austria) is The Restaurant of the Year, and the German organic food store chain Alnatura GmbH goes for The Importer of the Year. Finally, we attribute the Special Award dedicated to Cristina Tiliacos to theInstituto Brasileiro de Olivicultura, a national body committed to the protection and dissemination of extra virgin olive oil culture in Brazil, with the task of promoting quality olive oil production in the consumer world.
“This edition of Flos Olei 2024 brings with it historical names but also new faces of quality extra virgin olive oil,” conclude curators Marco Oreggia and Laura Marinelli . that continue to animate the large and diverse picture of our industry. Ours is a unique guide that has been celebrating extra virgin olive oil of excellence for fifteen years and, at the same time, constitutes a point of contact between producers, journalists, stakeholders and international import-export professionals united in a continuous and shared dialogue, the basis of the development of a sector of inestimable value for the territories and people who are part of it that project the sector into an increasingly promising future“.
FLOS OLEI 2024
A guide to the world of extra virgin olive oil
Edited by Marco Oreggia and Laura Marinelli
A kind of olive atlas in dual language,Italian-English, Italian-Spanish, Italian-Chinese, reviewing as many as 500 companies of excellence from the 5 continents, a total of 56 countries.
Particular attention has been paid to the mapping, which includes both the olive-growing areas with the greatest vocation and those with designations of origin.
A fact sheet with notes on tasting the oils and food pairings is dedicated to each production entity.
Available online at: https://www.flosolei.com/product/28870929/flos-olei-2024-guida-al-mondo-dell-extravergine – Price € 48
