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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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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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Are Laboratories the Replacing the Palate?

There are many reasons given for the current oversupply of olive oil around the world – tariffs, trade agreements, loss of consumer confidence and the ubiquitous absence of educated consumers. Most of these are out of the control of the producers.

Contributing to this oversupply is declining or stagnant consumption in the main consuming countries – Spain, Italy, Greece and the USA.

There is one consideration which we observe in tasting extra virgin olive oils in Savantes programmes which does not get much attention. That is the question of whether the drive for quality defined by chemical parameters is producing a robust and bitter style and flavour of extra virgin olive oil which consumers do not like.

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Team from Navarre wins first World Extra Virgin Olive Oil Team Tasting Championship

The first World Champion Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting Team is Los Navarros from Spain. The team comprised Roberto Gracia Sagasti, Carlos Gracia Sagasti and Mario Gomara Alfaro – all producers and taste panellists. Second was the Greek LET team of Lykourgos Polychronopoulos, Efstathia Zontanou and Takis Dimitrakopoulos. Lykourgos also became the fifth Savante and the first from Greece. The Greek JNP team were third and tied for fourth were the Team de Nimes from France and Los Narizones from Spain.

The winning Los Navaross team from Navarre, (left to right) Carlos Gracia Sagasti, Roberto Gracia Sagasti, and Mario Gomara Alfaro

The championship was held in Priego de Cordoba, Spain, in Association with the  Association for Quality Control of the Oils of the Region of Priego de Cordoba ((ASCCAL).

Eight competitors achieved Associate Savantes for the first time. The new Associates are Roberto Gracia Sagasti, Carlos Gracia Sagasti, Mario Gomara Alfaro, Isabel Calvache Gisberti, Covadonga Perez Silva from Spain, Julie Carou and Helene Lasserre from France and John Angelis from Greece.

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  1. Oils tasted at New York Savantes November 2019
  2. Oils tasted at the World Team Tasting Championship 2019
  3. Savantes Introduces Enhanced ‘Frequent Tasters’ Recognition for Associates
  4. News Release: Teams from Producing & Consuming Countries to Participate in World Tasting Championship

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