TERRAOLIVO Mediterranean International Olive Oil Competition held in June 2012 in Israel. This Year is the 3rd year for TERRAOLIVO, the compettion entry number was jumping up to 408 from 150 entries in 2009.
Toshiya Tada, Chairman of the OSAJ was nominated as a juror for this competition from 2011 and this year, total over 20 jurors invited from glove.
The judgement was made by sensory evaluation with completely “blind” method, as no information nor the olive oil bottle label was disclosed to the jurors. The jurors lists also available at the website of TERRAOLIVO as;
http://www.terraolivo.org/com_jury.htm
The major awards in TERRAOLIVO are, “Gran Prestige Gold” (over 86 points), “Prestige Gold” (over 76 points), and “Gold” (over 65 points).
There were 3 entries from JAPAN, Shodoshima and 1 entry among those 3 is the entry to “Flavored Oil” category. It is our great pleasure to annouce all those 3 entries from JAPAN won the “Gran Prestige Gold” , “Prestige Gold”, and”Gold”. Winners of those Japanese entry is as follows;
★ GRAN PRESTIGE GOLD (Flavored Olive Oil Category)
Nakayoshi Shoji Co., Ltd. “i’s Life Green Lemon Olive Oil”
(Nakayoshi Shoji is owned by OSAJ Olive Oil Sommelier Association Member)
★ PRESTIGE GOLD
IIJI Olive Co., Ltd. “IIJI OLIVE EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL LUCCA Variety”
(IIJI Olive is owned by OSAJ Olive Oil Sommelier Association Member)
★ GOLD
IIJI Olive Co., Ltd. “IIJI OLIVE EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL MISSION Variety”
(IIJI OIive is owed by OSAJ Olive Oil Sommelier Association Member)
Congratulations for Japanese winners and we are really pround of all the winners from Japan are our OSAJ Association members.
We hope we will have more winners for TERRAOLIVO 2013 !
i.e. OSAJ have not been responsible for this results and merchandise the products. We are not asked, committed nor contracted to sell, wholesale and merchandise any awarded olive oil products, so those who have any interest to purchase, please contact each winner directly.