Oristano
In the province this year one Snail and three Grande Olio Slow awards
There is also a lot of Oristano in the 2024 Guide to extra virgin olive oils published by Slow Food Italia, a useful tool for making oils, stories and territories known for 24 years. The snail – the symbol that indicates the olive growing companies that interpret the organoleptic, territorial and environmental values according to the Slow Food philosophy – has been assigned throughout the island to Antonella Anna Maria Orrù from Siamaggiore and to Masoni Becciu of Villacidro.
The Grande Olio Slow award, recognized for excellent oil, capable of exciting in relation to native cultivars and the territory to which it belongs, obtained with sustainable agronomic practices, goes to Ollu – Semidana of Rovelli di Oristano, Semidana from Tanca Barbarossa of Oristano, Bosana and Semidana of Santa Suia di Terralba and Cuncordu and Ispiritu Sardu Alphabetum by Masoni Becciu of Villacidro.
There are a total of 207 oils recognized in Italy as Slow Food presidia. In Sardinia they are the Organic and PDO Sardegna from Accademia Olearia di Alghero; Lands of the Giants of Sinis Agricola of Cabras; Meliddu – Bosana by Giuseppe Brozzu from Castelsardo; Organic from the Parteolla Olive Growers Cooperative in Dolianova; Ancient Olive Groves of Prato and Pitted Bosana by Fratelli Pinna di Ittiri; Ghermanu by Giuliana Puligheddu of Oliena; Lunavera – Nera di Oliena and Lunavera – Bosana by Sebastiano Fadda di Oliena; Ollu – Semidana of Rovelli di Oristano; Semidana from Tanca Barbarossa of Oristano; Donna Marisa Dop Sardinia and Treslizos by Antonella Anna Maria Orrù from Siamaggiore; Ispiritu Sardu Alphabetum by Masoni Becciu of Villacidro.
The Slow Food presidium of centuries-old olive trees promotes the environmental, landscape, health and economic value of ancient olive groves of native cultivars and groups together producers who do not use synthetic fertilizers and chemical herbicides.
In Sardinia, olive production has been growing overall in the last year, even if climatic events have caused poor production in the center and south. A very good year in the Nuoro area, slower in the Oristano area and in southern Sardinia, with some exceptions in the olive groves managed with more rational management methods and with emergency irrigation.
The 2024 Guide to Extra Virgin Olive Oils was created thanks to the contribution of 125 collaborators present throughout Italy. It reviews 686 companies reporting 1,071 quality extra virgin oils: a careful snapshot of the situation of Italian olive growing from which the excellence of national production emerges, despite the difficult year.
The Guide is not only intended to be an aid available to professionals and consumers to navigate the complicated world of extra virgin olive oil, but a precious tool to raise awareness of producers and encourage the reader to go and visit them. For Slow Food, oil is an important element not only because it is essential in designing our food culture and in contributing to the healthiness of our diet, but because it is central to the conservation of the territory, in shaping the landscape, as well as being an economic resource and socially important.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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