Oil tasting in nine steps.
Although olive oil has always been a key component of the Mediterranean diet, it has only been acknowledged as a quality product in relatively recent...
09 February, 2021
Author: Laura Turri
The birth of PDO oil
Food and wine are mainstays of Italian culture: they reflect our rich and multifaceted history, our deep values, and in one word, the uniqueness of...
26 January, 2021
Filtered and unfiltered oil: some explanations.
We often hear that unfiltered oil is better and more wholesome than filtered oils. This isn’t exactly true. We have been led to think so...
26 January, 2021
An oil-scented Christmas: Turri’s perfect gift ideas
Christmas is rapidly approaching, and like every year we always find ourselves with no ideas, desperately hunting for the perfect present that will please even...
16 December, 2020
Saint Lucy and the Castaldo
On the eve of December 13th, all the children in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and other, more limited areas of Northern Italy go to bed...
09 December, 2020
The olive oil tasting glass.
The oil-tasting glass embodies the importance of sensory analysis and has become something of an icon for olive oil culture. The chemical and biological features of...
23 November, 2020
Extra virgin olive oil outside the kitchen: 10 alternative uses
Nobody can deny the exquisite flavour of extra virgin olive oil, especially when it is drizzled over a crunchy bruschetta or a bowlful of pasta,...
09 November, 2020
From tree to bottle
It is in early June that the first tiny olives start to appear on the branches of our trees. Throughout the summer months they slowly...
12 October, 2020
The Castaldo
The history of our family reveals a strong bond with a bygone job: that of the castaldo. Our society was for thousands of years a...
09 October, 2020
Extra virgin olive oil and the Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean diet is on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The common denominator of this wide array of dishes is extra virgin olive oil, which is the only fat present in this diet
16 July, 2020
