The best extra virgin olive oil of the year is Umbria, crowned by Flos Olei 2019

The best oil of the year is Umbria, crowned by Flos Olei, the world's leading guide to quality 10 year old extra virgin olive oil. And in the 2019 edition, it still rewards an oil from Umbria.

Next to the selection of the 500 best companies, Flos Olei adds a ranking of traditional merit, The Best, including the realities that, over the years, continue to build on a consistent qualitative trajectory and work in synergy with the territory to which they belong, which gives it an added value.

In this sense, explains Flos Olei, Italy shines particularly in the winners' pink who won 12 prizes in the 20 categories considered, including the highly sought-after prizes reserved for the company of the year (Frantoio Franci and Oliveto Fonte di Foiano ex aequo in Tuscany) and the best extra virgin olive oil of the year (Azienda Agraria Viola in Umbria).

They win in the other categories: OlioCRU in Trentino Alto Adige, Bonamini Frantoio in Veneto, Francesca Boni and Cosmo Di Russo in Lazio, Torre a Oriente in Campania, De Carlo and Olio Intini in Apulia, Vincenzo Marvulli in Basilicata, Titone in Sicily and Accademia Olearia in Sardinia . To complement The Best, the excellent reality of Croatia (Oleum Maris), Spain (Olive Juice Castillo de Canena, Aceites Nobleza del Sur and Aceites Finca La Torre), Chile (Olivos Ruta del Sol and Agrícola Pobeña), Greece (Cultivators of Liá) and France (La Magnanerie). At the head of the special awards, the Belpaese wins the restaurant of the year (Ristorante Al 588, in Tuscany), the importer of the year is the Olive Green Life (China-Taiwan) and the prize dedicated to Cristina Tiliacos is awarded to the Diputación Provincial de Jaén.

"The oil culture and the quality that this extraordinary product is capable of expressing – explain the commissioners Marco Oreggia and Laura Marinelli – they have no more borders; For this reason, on the occasion of Flos Olei's tenth birthday, we decided to focus on key markets such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. We are convinced that the sector is now mature in traditional markets and therefore ready to conquer new ones, in countries where the olive oil sector and the European gastronomic culture are attracting considerable interest. Moreover, as every year, we try, through the guide, to highlight all the producers who, whatever their geographical origin, determine the growth of the sector at the world level, and we reward in particular the most virtuous to favor the knowledge. and marketing ".