21.09.2018
Award-winning olive oils in the forefront during Sol&Agrifood 7-10 April 2019
SOL D'ORO SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: CLEAN SWEEP BY SOUTH AFRICA
Clear victory for the hosts of the event thanks to quality (judged through blind tastings) demonstrating the great work achieved over the years by local olive growers. Olive oils from Chile also performed well. Sol d'Oro confirmed its status as a competition promoting production improvement and offers genuine commercial opportunities by providing international buyers with a quality standard. And b2b meetings see a new Veronafiere initiative 8-10 November with the Sol International EVO Oil Show during the Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair. The next edition of Sol d'Oro Southern Hemisphere is scheduled in Peru in 2019.
Cape Town, 20 September 2018. A great victory for extra virgin olive oils from South Africa at the 5th edition of Sol d'Oro Southern Hemisphere, taking nine medals out of nine in the three categories envisaged in the competition (light, medium and intense fruit).
The Giulio Bertrand Special Award went to the De Rustica Estate Company, also from South Africa. The award was established to commemorate the Italian entrepreneur who died recently. He became an agricultural producer in South Africa in the early 1990s with the acquisition of Morgenster Wine & Oil Estate. His supported and shared the spirit of Veronafiere's initiatives to promote qualitative improvements for extra virgin olive oil from the southern hemisphere.
The Veronafiere-Sol&Agrifood competition compares the best produce from south of the equator, also saw Chile take 10 Special Mentions (the complete list of the winners is provided below).
Olive oils from South Africa may well have "played at home" but the value of award-winning oils is guaranteed by the strict regulations that envisage a "blind" assessment system with anonymous samples and olive oils produced in commercially relevant quantities.
"Sol d'Oro is the only olive oil competition that involves blind tasting," explained Barbara Blasevich of the Veronafiere board of directors, who was in Cape Town to represent the organisers. "It is also the only competition dedicated to olive oils from the southern hemisphere that requires samples to be presented in commercial packaging and represent a minimum batch of 2,000 bottles of 0.50 litres or equivalent; the intention is to ensure recognition that brings supply and demand together, as well as being an interesting marketing lever for winners by being an acknowledged indicator of product quality and not merely of the company among international buyers," Blasevich added.
To this end, bottles from batches of medal-winning olive oils are allowed to highlight the award received (Sol d'Oro, Sol d'Argento, Sol di Bronzo) or the Special Mention sticker.
Veronafiere offers winners a range of opportunities promoting commercial visibility, the first in order of time being participation in the Sol International EVO Oil Show, scheduled 8-10 November in Hong Kong as part of the World of Olive Oil preview during the Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair, the most important event for buyers from China and South-East Asia.
Attendance as an exhibitor at Sol&Agrifood is also an opportunity for b2b contacts. The quality agro-food show scheduled 7-10 April 2019 was visited in 2018 by 59,300 professional operators from 130 countries (www.solagrifood.com).
The four days of the trade fair welcome many initiatives dedicated to award-winning olive oils: from "The stars of Sol d'Oro" guide distributed to international buyers and Veronafiere delegates all over the world to the tasting of award-winning olive oils guided by Marino Giorgetti, the panel chief of the competition, dedicated to operators from all over the world. The olive oils taking awards in the two editions of Sol d'Oro (Southern Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere) are also available for free tasting in the Olive Oil Bar, while those earning Special Mentions become protagonists of cooking shows where the use of different extra virgin olive oils to enhance cuisine is promoted.
The next edition of Sol d'Oro Southern Hemisphere is scheduled in Peru in 2019.
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THE WINNERS - SOL D'ORO SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE 2018
Delicate fruit category
1) SOL D’ORO – RIO LARGO OLIVE ESTATE – SOUTH AFRICA – name of oil RIO LARGO GOLD
2) SOL D’ARGENTO – DIEPSAK FARM – SOUTH AFRICA – name of oil GREEN AND GOLD PREMIUM
3) SOL DI BRONZO – TOKARA – SOUTH AFRICA - name of oil TOKARA PREMIUM
Medium fruit category
1) SOL D’ORO – SERRADO OLIVE ESTATE – SOUTH AFRICA – name of oil SERRADO
2) SOL D’ARGENTO – DE RUSTICA ESTATE – SOUTH AFRICA – name of oil ESTATE COLLECTION FRANTOIO
3) SOL DI BRONZO – OAKHURST OLIVES FARMING LMT.– SOUTH AFRICA – name of oil OAKHURST MEDIUM
Intense fruit category
1) SOL D’ORO – DE RUSTICA ESTATE – SOUTH AFRICA – name of oil ESTATE COLLECTION CORATINA
2) SOL D’ARGENTO – DE RUSTICA ESTATE – SOUTH AFRICA – name of oil ESTATE COLLECTION FAVOLOSA
3) SOL DI BRONZO – WILDEKRANS TRUST – SOUTH AFRICA – name of oil KEERWEER
Giulio Bertrand "Special Award"
DE RUSTICA ESTATE - SOUTH AFRICA
SPECIAL MENTIONS
Delicate fruit category
Medium fruit category
Intense fruit category
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