The EVOO and its producer: Nino Apreda

In the spotlight is Villa Zagara, a property of Nino Apreda (Campania, Italy), the reigning international champion in the EVO IOOC Italy 2023.

The award-winning EVOO: Villa Zagara, Minucciola olive variety.

At the company, the watchword is “Our secret? Produce with passion”. In Sorrento, Villa Zagara is tucked away in green hills, filled with the scents of citrus fruits, olive trees and a great variety of flowers and washed by a mesmerizing sea, a fairytale location overlooking the Gulf with magnificent gardens and wide green spaces. In addition to being the perfect location for glamorous weddings, Villa Zagara is home to a vast and ancient collection of olive trees, which produce an extraordinary extra virgin olive oil.

Villa Zagara is currently owned by the Acampora – Apreda family, who work every day to achieve an ambitious goal: to provide guests and consumers with unique and unforgettable events. For the owners of Villa Zagara, olive oil production plays a crucial role and all family members are a party to it, maintaining the same traditions from one generation to the next.

The monocultivar Minucciola olive oil, produced with passion and dedication by the Villa Zagara Sorrento farm, has already received plaudits and great acclaim from renowned Italian and Asian starred chefs and, thanks to its unique delicacy, has won the hearts of gastronomy enthusiasts around the world. Villa Zagara’s EVOO, for the first time in the EVO IOOC Italy, deservedly won the Best International Monovarietal EVOO 2023 Northern Hemisphere, a category in which it is the reigning champion, as well as being the Monovarietal Extra Virgin Olive Oil of the Northern Hemisphere to beat in the year 2024.