Great success with the public and operators at the event “Monferrato extra virgin olive oil: reality and prospects” held in the splendid setting of the Razzano Castle in Alfiano Natta (AL).
A “first” that allowed some of the top experts in the sector at a national, regional and Monferrato level to be gathered around a table, in order to outline a shared path of evolution of the sector. This project will be submitted as soon as possible to the Councilor for Agriculture, Food, Hunting and Fishing of the Piedmont Region Marco Protopopepresent at the event.
Alongside the Councillor, other prominent personalities took part in the conference, among whom it is impossible not to mention Mario SaccoPresident of the Basso Monferrato GAL, Marco GiachinoPresident of the Consortium for the Protection of Piedmont Olive Oil, Gabriella StansfieldNational President of Women of Oil, Paolo Massobriojournalist and food and wine expert e Luigi CaricatoDirector of “Olio Officina Magazine”.
Journalists and experts, the Consortium for the Protection of Piedmont Extra Virgin Olive Oil, the National and Regional Association of Women of Oil and local producers contributed to providing an exhaustive picture of the new regional reality and of Monferrato. A useful comparison also in the perspective at consortium level of a process of recognition of a PGI “extra virgin olive oil from Piedmont”, where Monferrato oil constitutes a production component of great significance.
Olive oil can represent an important tourist driver of the production areas. The meeting then discussed the project idea of an oil tourism route in Monferrato, born from the Astesana wine and food route, in particular, and from the Women of Oil Association, which synergistically integrates the itineraries already outlined for the DOC and DOCG wines of the area.
Oil tourism therefore takes advantage of the successful experience of Monferrato wine tourism, a phenomenon that has been growing rapidly in recent times.
