Verona – With a gold medal more than last year, Italy extends its loot and beat Spain 12 to 3 in the contest for the best extra virgin oil in the world, which ended last night in Verona and saw the participation of 300 champions from 10 countries (Italy, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, Portugal, Germany, France, Chile and Japan for the first time). The international jury of 13 highly qualified judges from Greece, Tunisia, Turkey, Spain, Slovenia and Italy evaluated oils in “blind tasting” mode for six days. The Sol d’Oro Northern Hemisphere 2017, sees Italy win four gold on the five competition categories – light, medium and intense, organic and single variety -, all five silver medals and three bronze. Spain won three medals, one gold and two bronze. (9colonne)
