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Savantes Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting Team World Cup

Spain, October 2019

Savantes Introduces Enhanced ‘Frequent Tasters’ Recognition for Associates

Silver. Gold and Platinum Associate Savante Certificates will now be awarded.

Savantes Returns to New York with Leading Extra Virgin Olive Oils

Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes - New York, USA
31 October to November 1, 2019

Taste the World’s Leading Extra Virgin Olive Oils
and
Discuss Markets, Health Benefits, Culinary Uses and Quality Standards.   

Excellent Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Valuable Knowledge and Good Company makes Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes Much More than Tasting

  • Provides opportunities to improve personal tasting knowledge and confidence
  • Through its tasting skills review recognises and rewards competency
  • Is unaligned and independent
  • Is an international movement connecting people in many countries; and
  • It fosters respect for the products of all producing countries

Savantes Review and Recognition

Introducing a day of skills review exercises and giving recognition as Associate Savante or Savante if you achieve the prescribed scores (read more about the Register of EVOO Savantes)

Open to anyone who wants to review their tasting ability on a worldwide scale.

The inaugural World Cup for Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting Teams will be held in Priego de Cordoba, Spain on 4th and 5th October, 2019.

The Championship for tasting teams will be the culmination of 5 years of development of National Tasting Team Championships in producing and consuming countries. Championships are currently held in USA, Spain, France, South Africa and Greece. Winning teams from theses countries will be competing in the World Cup. They will be joined by invited teams from other countries coordinated by tasters involved in the International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes Network.

The World Cup will be convened by Savantes and co-hosted with the Association for Quality Control of the Oils of the Region of Priego de Cordoba (ASCCAL).

Thank you to the producers listed as providing their excellent extra virgin olives oils for Savantes events in the USA. These and all the other producers who supply olive oils for tasting at Savantes events around the world consistently produce high quality products and are committed to promoting increased consumption.

Through their effort and the patronage of participants Savantes has successfully expanded the appreciation of extra virgin olive oil for almost twenty years. We will continue to do so through expanded and innovative events in future years, especially in the appreciation of flavours in food.

Silver. Gold and Platinum Associate Savante Certificates will now be awarded to Associate Savantes who successfully complete the Savantes Skills Review two, three and four times respectively.

The 'Frequent Tasters' Savantes programme is designed to recognise the tasting competency and knowledge of Associates who actively maintain their level of tasting competence and knowledge. The Certificates will also be presented retrospectively to Associates. The presentation will take place on the next occasion that an eligible Associate takes the Savantes Review.