It is a photograph of the great quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil throughout the national territory, the Guide to extra virgin olive oils 2020 edited by Slow Food Italy released in these days. An indispensable tool for consumers who want to navigate the complex and articulated world of oil with full knowledge of the facts but at the same time it is also an important showcase for companies producing good, clean and fair extra virgin olive oil according to the dictates of the Slow Food philosophy.
The volume highlights the best of quality Italian production thanks to a network of over 100 collaborators, who are not only expert tasters, but people present in the area, who know the companies from the olive grove to the bottle.
In the 2020 edition they are told 580 reality between mills, farms and oil mills, and are reviewed 943 oils among the more than a thousand tasted.
The first consideration that emerges from reading the Guide is that the number of companies that certify in appears to be growing biological the entire supply chain as well as the producers (120) who have joined the Slow Food Presidium Italian extra virgin olive oil, the project that promotes the environmental, landscape, health and economic value of oil, which protects ancient olive groves, native cultivars and brings together producers who do not use synthetic fertilizers and chemical herbicides.
As is tradition in the Guide, the classic recognitions appear, easily identifiable: the Snail which indicates the companies that stand out for their total consistency with the Slow Food philosophy, this year there are 28.
In addition to the snails, the Slow Food Guide awards two other awards: the big oil, reserved for extra virgin olive oils that have distinguished themselves for particular qualities from an organoleptic point of view and because they well reflect the territory and cultivar and the Big Oil Slow award that recognizes compliance with the applied sustainable agronomic practices.
Here are the 2020 Snails
Agrobiological Foglini Amurri – Petritoli (FM)
Etruscan Hills – Blera (VT)
Dante Sambuchi – City of Castello (PG)
Davide Iacovella – Chieti
De Carlo – Bitritto (BA)
Altomena Farm – Pelago (FI)
Fiorano Cossignano Acoli Piceno
Fontanaro – Paciano (PG)
Hermes oil mill – Penne (PE)
Giorgio Tamaro – Termoli (CB)
John Batta - Perugia
The Three Rows – Recanati (MC)
Intini – Alberobello (BA)
Laghel7 – Arco (TN)
Leonardo Salustri – Cinigiano (GR)
Maria Ianniciello – Grottaminarda (AV)
Masoni Becciu – Villacidro (CA)
Paola Orsini – Priverno (LT)
Stefano Spinelli – Lamporecchio (PT)
Lenzini Estate – Capannori (LU)
Maso Bòtes estate – Arco (TN)
Tenuta Pennita – Castrocaro Terme and Terra del Sole (FC)
Terraliva – Buccheri (SR)
Lands of Molinara – Molinara (BN)
Titone – Trapani (TP)
Tommaso Masciantonio – Casoli (CH)
Val di Lama – Pontedera (PI)
Vernera – Buccheri (SR)
How was the 2019 vintage? The greatest difficulties have been caused by the climate which, with its by now too frequent changes, affects our production every year in a patchy way. If in 2018 it was the South that felt its effects, the 2019 vintage literally brought the production of Northern Italy to its knees, with drops ranging from 50% in Liguria to 95% on Garda. And this can be read clearly from the Guide where the realities of the North are not very present. While the Center holds, on average, and the South is growing by double-digit percentages (even if the comparison is based on the disastrous data of the previous year).
The Guide has always wanted to be an invitation to go and visit these realities that are part of a strategic sector for Made in Italy that contributes to designing the landscape face of our nation. These buy and visit tips are even more important today. When you can move again, schedule a trip to visit an oil producer among those indicated in the Guide: among these, 177 offer catering and 190 are those with the possibility of accommodation. An opportunity to travel between territories, men and varieties and to experience a world to be discovered, appreciated and tasted.
BELOW THE LIST OF AWARDS GRANDE OLIO SLOW AND GREAT OIL
Great oils Slow
VENETO
PDO Veneto Valpolicella
Contarina, Illasi (Verona)
TRENTINO ALTO ADIGE
Millennial
Maso Bòtes estate, Arc (TN)
EMILIA-ROMAGNA
Valdoleto
Pennita Estate, Castrocaro Terme and Terra del Sole (FC)
TUSCANY
Moraiolo
Ramerino Farm, Bagno a Ripoli (FI)
Company of Oliandoli Optimun Igp Toscano
The Antellino, Bagno a Ripoli (FI)
Igp Tuscan Hills of Florence
Montisoni's net, Bagno a Ripoli (FI)
Idyll
Montisoni's net, Bagno a Ripoli (FI)
Ages The Towers
The towers, Barberino Val d'Elsa (FI)
Sacrapone
Buoni or Del Buono Maria Pia, Cetona (SI)
Plenum
Poggiopiano Farm, Fiesole (Florence)
The Olinto – Leccino
Podere Grassi, Greve in Chianti (FI)
Moraiolo
The Fountains, Loro Ciuffenna (AR)
Traditional
Altomena Farm, Pelago (FI)
Maurino
Val di Lama, Pontedera (PI)
Grandis selection
The Frogberry, San Casciano in Val di Pesa (FI)
Frantoio
white tower, San Casciano in Val di Pesa (FI)
Malice of Tosca
Pietrasca, Suvereto (LI)
Together
Bellandi, Uzzano (PT)
MARCHE
Tender Listening
Prosperino, Ascoli Piceno
Tender Listening
Joachim Garofoli, Castelfidardo (AN)
Tender Listening
Montecappone, Jesi (AN)
Tender Listening
Gregori Olives, Montalto delle Marche (AP)
Brother Bernard
Conventino Monteciccardo, Monteciccardo (PU)
Friar Pasquale
Conventino Monteciccardo, Monteciccardo (PU)
Ages Workshop of the sun
sun workshop, Monte Giorgio (FM)
Ages The Three Rows
The Three Rows, Recanati (Italy)
Pinkie
The Three Rows, Recanati (Italy)
Tender Listening
Saladins Pillars, Spinel (AP)
UMBRIA
Olive must
Giulio Mannelli, Bettona (PG)
The Outcropping
Marfuga, Campello sul Clitunno (PG)
Trace bio
Marfuga, Campello sul Clitunno (PG)
Shelter Coast
Violet, Foligno (PG)
LAZIO
Cetron IN
Alfredo Cetrone, sleep (LT)
Supreme Dega
Andrea Degiovanni, Vetralla (VT)
ABRUZZO
Intosso
Thomas Masciantonio, Casoli (CH)
Trappeto di Caprafico Dop Theatine Hills
Thomas Masciantonio, Casoli (CH)
straight
Delia Orsini, Loreto Aprutino (PE)
Nymph – Intosso
Hermes mill, Pens (PE)
listen
Julius Gardens, Touch from Casauria (PE)
MOLISE
Kind of Mafalda
Trespaldum, Mafalda (CB)
Colle D'Angiò – Black Olive
George Tamaro, Termoli (CB)
Colle D'Angiò – Rumignana
George Tamaro, Termoli (CB)
CAMPANIA
The Runner
Ancient Podere Matesino, Life (CE)
Cru Orrico
the caper, Anacapri (NA)
Nettle
Montserrat 1973, Benevento
Cliff
Pietrabianca, Casal Velino (SA)
Drops of Nature – Francesco's Ortice
of Assisi, Casalduni (BN)
Region
Madonna Fountain, Frigento (AV)
Contemporary Gran Cru
high houses, Grottaminarda (AV)
Irpino green
Minico Estate, Melito Irpino (AV)
Papillo Polid'Oro – Ortice
Silvia Bollecchino, San Giorgio la Molara (BN)
Raro
Our Lady of the Olive Tree, Serre (SA)
PUGLIA
Mola top
Intini, Alberobello (Bari)
Ages The 4 Districts
The 4 Districts, Andria
Coratin
Franco Cuonzo, Bitonto (Bari)
Felice Garibaldi's oil
DeCarlo, Bitritto (BA)
Coratin
Adriatic Nurseries, Fasano (BR)
BASILICATA
Ages Ace of Olive
Olive Ace, Maple (PZ)
Cenzino – Ogliarola del Bradano
Vincenzo Marvulli, Matera
Effluvium
Filomena Carriero, Montescaglioso (MT)
CALABRIA
Orolio the Extra Virgin
Brothers Renzo, Corigliano-Rossano (CS)
Dolciterre – Ottobratica
Garzo Sisters, Seminar (RC)
Ages Torchia
Federico Torchia oil mill, Tyrol (CZ)
SICILY
Carbonia – Giarraffa
Salamon, Agrigento
My beautiful
Agrestis, Buccheri (SR)
Nectaribleo Dop Monti Iblei
Agrestis, Buccheri (SR)
Cherubino Nocellara Etnea IGP Sicily
Terraliva, Buccheri (SR)
Cherubino Tonda Iblea Igp Sicily
Terraliva, Buccheri (SR)
The Houses of Lavinia
Vernera, Buccheri (SR)
The Lands of Vito
Vernera, Buccheri (SR)
Primo
Cutrera mills, Chiaramonte Gulfi (RG)
6 Files Grand Cru – Nocellara del Belice
Baglio Gardia, Paceco (TP)
Giant DOP Valli Trapanesi
Baglio Gardia, Paceco (TP)
Villa Zottopera
Joseph Red, Ragusa
DOP Valleys of Trapani
Tithonus, Trapani
carole
Bastonaca estate, Victoria (RG)
SARDINIA
Sa Mola
Maria Laura Bardeglinu, Oliena (NU)
Lunavera – Bosana
Sebastian Fadda, Oliena (NU)
Mount Margiani
Gianfranco Deidda, Villacidro (CA)
Evo Masoni Becciu
Masoni Becciu, Villacidro (CA)
Ispiritu Sardu
Masoni Becciu, Villacidro (CA)
Great Oils
TRENTINO ALTO ADIGE
46nd Parallel
Riva del Garda Agriculture, Riva del Garda (TN)
LIGURIA
Extreme
La Baita & Galleano, Borghetto d´Arroscia (IM)
Crù Turè Dop Italian Riviera Riviera dei Fiori
Benza Frantoiano, Imperia
extreme
Paul Cassini, Isolabona (IM)
EMILIA-ROMAGNA
listen
Podere La Torre, Roncofreddo (FC)
Cast Gold
Sapigni oil mill, Verucchio (RN)
TUSCANY
Grand Cru
Source of Foiano, Castagneto Carducci (LI)
Reflexes
Source of Foiano, Castagneto Carducci (LI)
Villa Magra
Franci mill, Castel del Piano (GR)
Laudemius
Marquises Frescobaldi, Florence
DOP Chianti Classico – Moraiolo
Ricasoli, Gaiole in Chianti (SI)
Gold of the Tatanni
Sala Casino, Greve in Chianti (FI)
Evo Dimora Ghirlandaio
Ghirlandaio residence, Impruneta (FI)
Age Maurizio Menichetti
Maurizio Menichetti, Manciano (GR)
Pendolino
attic, Montespertoli (FI)
Maurino
Marini Giuseppe and Sons, Pistoia
Holm oak of the Horn
The Greppi of Silli, San Casciano in Val di Pesa (FI)
Fireflies in the Olive Trees – Frantoio
the coast, San Casciano in Val di Pesa (FI)
La Castellaccia – Leccio del Corno
Antonella Fedi, San Casciano Val di Pesa (FI)
UMBRIA
Emotions
Tenths, Bettona (PG)
Moraiolo
Tenths, Bettona (PG)
Ray
mitera, Bremgarten (CH)
The Friars
Mario Salmareggi heirs, Foligno (PG)
Manacco
Mario Salmareggi heirs, Foligno (PG)
Olive flower
Mill The Factor, Foligno (PG)
Selection
Mill The Factor, Foligno (PG)
Sincere
Violet, Foligno (PG)
DOP Umbria Colli Martani
Arnaldo Caprai, Montefalco (PG)
Ages Casa Lucentini
Lucentini House, Trevi (PG)
LAZIO
Cru Piscine Mau
Ion Zobbi, Canine (VT)
Strong & Exalted
Ion Zobbi, Canine (VT)
Maurino
Laura De Parri, Canine (VT)
Don Pasquale Dop Pontine Hills
Cosmo Di Russo, Gaeta (LT)
Elektia
Francesca Boni, Vetralla (VT)
ABRUZZO
i Oil – Intosso
Marina Palusci, Slipper (PE)
Intosso
Farchione Guardians, Touch from Casauria (PE)
CAMPANIA
Reserve
Ambrosio Farm, Castelnuovo Cilento (SA)
Auli
Angelo Barbieri, Paternopoli (AV)
Intense fruity
Fam oil mill, Venticano (AV)
PUGLIA
Surfaced
Intini, Alberobello (Bari)
Coratin
Maselli, Alberobello (Bari)
Carrillo-Peranzana
Corleto, Ascoli Satriano (FG)
Grand Cru – Coratina
Galantine, Bisceglie (BT)
Top of Bitonto
Cultivated love, Bitonto (Bari)
Torre di Mossa estate
DeCarlo, Bitritto (BA)
Coratin
Masseria Faraona, Corato (BA)
Giacomo
Masseria Pezze Galere, Fasano (BR)
Ogliarola
Orthoplants, Giovinazzo (Bari)
The matching ones – Coratina
Antonio Ragusa, Gravina in Puglia (BA)
Mimì – Ogliarola
Donato Conserva, Modena (BA)
Coppadoro
Joseph Ciccolella, Molfetta (BA)
Evo Windbreaker
windbreaker, Molfetta (BA)
Coratin
D'Erchie, Montemesola (TA)
Infiore Reserve
Thomas Fiore, Terlizzi (Bari)
Archpriest
Stasis, Santa Susanna Tower (BR)
Grand Reserve
leave, Ugento (LE)
CALABRIA
Limited Edition watch
Brothers Renzo, Corigliano-Rossano (CS)
Dolciterre Rosì
Garzo Sisters, Seminar (RC)
The Abbess
Barranca, Siderno (RC)
SICILY
Evo Cunzatillu
Cunzatillu, Cassaro (SR)
PGI Sicily
paradise valley, Favara (AG)
Moorish
Galioto mill, Ferla (SR)
Tesoro
disisa, Palermo
Cherry
Mandranova, Palma di Montechiaro (AG)
Nocellara
Mandranova, Palma di Montechiaro (AG)
Don Peppino IGP Sicily
Sikulus, Santa Maria di Licodia (CT)
SARDINIA
Bosana Fruity Green
Oil Academy, Alghero (SS)
San Giuliano – Bosana
Domenico Manca, Alghero (SS)
San Giuliano Primer
Domenico Manca, Alghero (SS)
Forget it
Corte Olias, Escolca (CA)
Semidana
Corte Olias, Escolca (CA)
Solianu
Joseph Gabbas, Nuoro
Soliana
On Hastanagliu, Oliena (NU)
S'Ard – Semidana
Frank Ledda, Oristano
Garigue Ramine
On Molìnu, Octane (NU)
