Flos Olei 2024, the guide to the world’s EVO oils, arrives

• 56 countries of the world, 90 maps, 500 companies and 775 extra virgin oils

• Aosta Valley region is the new entry

• Hall of Fame confirms 5 positions to Italy, 3 to Spain and opens the door to Croatia

• The Best awards 11 to Italy, 5 to Spain and one each to Portugal, Slovenia, Greece and Argentina

• International Special Awards: Journalist of the Year is Italian, Austrian Restaurant, German Importer and Brazil wins "Cristina Tiliacos" culture award

Flos Olei 2024, the 15th edition of the first and only guide dedicated to extra virgin olive oil at the international level, is finally available. Once again this year the volume, edited by Marco Oreggia and Laura Marinelli, presents the 500 best olive oil companies selected from as many as 56 countries. A directory of the top 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 the Aosta Valley, which effectively enters the list of Italian olive-growing regions: a small production reality, but a land where olive-growing has its roots as far back as the Middle Ages. Accomplices for the recognition are the potential of the area, the interest shown by the local population and, in part, changes due to the climate crisis.

"Despite a season that is certainly not easy from both an environmental and economic point of view," says Marco Oreggia, editor of the Flos Olei guide, "once again this year it was a pleasure to note 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 in our guide an authoritative and safe reference. One fact that is certainly striking is the marked improvement in international production, an indication 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 narrative of extra virgin olive oil an art and a lifestyle, 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 Italian Azienda Agricola Comincioli (Lombardy), Frantoio Bonamini (Veneto), Frantoio Franci (Tuscany), Azienda Agraria Viola (Umbria) and Americo Quattrociocchi (Lazio) are confirmed, as are the Spanish 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 less than eleven awards in The Best: the Azienda dell'Anno is Olio Mimì (Puglia), the Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil of the Year is Azienda Agricola Tommaso Masciantonio (Abruzzo), the Azienda Green is Agricola 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 Frantoio di Riva (Trentino Alto Adige), Frantoio Gaudenzi, Azienda Agricola Decimi (Umbria), Dievole (Tuscany) and Azienda Agricola Le Tre Colonne (Puglia), joined 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 dissemination of the culture of the olive oil sector with various players in the supply chain. It does so with Special Awards: The Journalist of the Year is the Italian Francesco Cherubini of Olivo News, La Terrasse - Hotel Schloss Seefel (Austria) is The Restaurant of the Year, while 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 the Instituto Brasileiro de Olivicultura, a national body committed to the protection and dissemination of the culture of extra virgin olive oil 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 editors Marco Oreggia and Laura Marinelli, "which continue to animate the large and varied picture of our sector. 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

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 farms of excellence from the 5 continents, for a total of 56 countries.
Particular attention is paid to the cartography, which includes both the olive-growing areas with the greatest vocation and those with a denomination of origin.
A fact sheet is dedicated to each production reality with tasting notes of the oils and gastronomic pairings.

Available on line: https://www.flosolei.com/product/28870929/flos-olei-2024-guida-al-mondo-dell-extravergine - Price € 48