- 491 EVOOs and flavoured EVOOs with an increase of 13% than 2019 and 25 countries participating between the Northern and Southern hemisphere.
The whole world was the background of this fifth edition of the contest. During the 15 days, 25 international judges evaluated the samples directly from their 9 countries, for the first time through a mixed evaluation system. And the final act of the EVO IOOC competition awarded and unveiled the olive oil excellences of 2020 to the whole world, with about 400 medals awarded, in an unusual and elegant award ceremony broadcasted live on Facebook from the suggestive mobile television studio in the center of Palmi chosen – in times of pandemic – to host the event.
Nine Years of EVO IOOC Italy
- The world of olive oil, wherever you look at it and whatever hemisphere you refer to, is more and more mature