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International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes restarts in Melbourne with new method for tasting olive oil.

Savantes Savourgram © to be Introduced at Savantes Melbourne, March 2023

The internationally acclaimed International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes Programme will restart in Melbourne with yet another innovation.

With programmes held prepandemic in 11 countries Savantes has introduced the Savantes Skills Test recognising individual tasters, the national Team Tasting Championships in France, Spain and Greece, and the inaugural World Team Tasting Championship held in Spain in 2019.

Now Savantes has developed a new creative multi-dimensional method of tasting and recording extra virgin olive oils.

In the continuing development of the Savantes tasting philosophy we have developed the concept of ‘The Palette of Flavours’ with colours representing the positive characteristics of fruitiness (blue), bitterness (green) and spiciness (red).

To represent the progression of flavours along the palate, a graph has been devised with the vertical axis representing intensity and the horizontal axis representing time in one second intervals.

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Savantes Australia 2023

16 and 17 March 2023
Melbourne, Australia

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.

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

Modena, Italy – Seville, Toledo, Madrid, Priego de CordobaSpain – London, United Kingdom – New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, USA – Sydney, Melbourne, Australia – Auckland, New Zealand – Cape Town, South Africa – Dublin, Ireland – Amsterdam, Netherlands - Kalamata, Greece - Provence, France

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Savantes 'Alphabet of Aroma' presented in Jordan

Tala Saket, Savante from Jordan, has presented the Savantes 'Alphabet of Aroma' at a seminar for chefs at the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts in Amman, Jordan.

In the post pandemic era we are encouraging Savantes to conduct regional Savante-associated sessions or events and congratulate Tala on being the first to do so. The interaction in the photographs shows the success of the exercise which is designed to highlight the attractive and evocative aromas of extra virgin olive oil.

The session came under the InCelebration of olive oil campaign happening in Jordan over the next few months.

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Our Sales Narrative Must be Built from the Consumer’s Perspective – Value for Money

Clearing out some dusty books I came across a 2011 publication sponsored by the European Union and Spain entitled ‘The surprisingly, marvellous, savoury, curious, healthy, historic, artistic and fantastic world of Olive Oil’. It is a beautiful informative book. The first significant pictorial of food comes on the 27th page. The preceding pages are full of production data, varietals, mythology, olive oil classifications and pictures of the olive groves of Spain stretching to the horizon.

The question is; does it sell olive oil to the consumer or is it a little self-indulgent, trying to satisfy those who paid for it first, the publisher, the producer organisations, the politicians and secondly persuade, incidentally, consumers? Is it trying to portray each of the facets described in the title? I am sure it has made money for the graphic artists, the designers, the authors and the administrators – I question the return to producers? My observation is that in the last 10 years since the publication of this book our narrative has not changed.

We hear endlessly of the Mediterranean diet pyramid in the context of olive oil sales.  Analysis of Google Trends in the USA shows that a slight upward trend in searches on the Diet does not seem to lead to increased searches for olive oil.

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  1. Are Laboratories the Replacing the Palate?
  2. Team from Navarre wins first World Extra Virgin Olive Oil Team Tasting Championship
  3. Oils tasted at New York Savantes November 2019
  4. Oils tasted at the World Team Tasting Championship 2019
  5. Savantes Introduces Enhanced ‘Frequent Tasters’ Recognition for Associates
  6. News Release: Teams from Producing & Consuming Countries to Participate in World Tasting Championship

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  • Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes Australia, 16 - 17 March 2023
  • International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes restarts in Melbourne with new method for tasting olive oil.
  • Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes will soon be announcing our plans for 2023, with some exciting new developments.  Join our mailing list so that we can keep you informed.  
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  • Savantes Introduces Enhanced ‘Frequent Tasters’ Recognition for Associates

 


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