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Olive oils schools in the Mediterranean

Festivaldelgusto along with their partner Olivaverde are always interested in promoting small food, wine and olive oil producers from the Mediterranean region and are pleased that in 2014 we are launching a series of dedicated olive oil schools in Italy and the Islands of Malta and Gozo. The "schools" will include workshops where there will be an olive oil producer teaching clients about all the stages of  the cultivation and production of fine extra, from the harvesting of the olives right through to the bottling and marketing of the oils.
Other classes will include talks and demonstrations by actual olive oil producers and tasting experts where our clients will learn the techniques of tasting olive oils from different regions of Italy and also from the Island of Malta. Clients will also visit the olive groves and mills where the olive oils we feature are produced to see how the different olive oils are made, where possible all the olive oils used and promoted in our "schools" will be made by organic or biodynamic agricultural and horticultural methods and produced by small artisan producers.

Festivaldelgusto in collaborazione con Olivaverde, è sempre interessato a promuovere piccoli produttori locali provenienti dall'area del Mediterraneo e siamo lieti di annunciare per il 2014 il lancio di una serie di eventi specificatamente dedicati all'olio d'oliva in forma di mini corsi in Italia e nell'isola di Gozo a Malta. Le "scuole" includeranno seminari dove i produttori illustreranno ai partecipanti le varie fasi del processo di coltivazione e produzione di raffinato olio d'oliva extra vergine, dalla raccolta delle olive fino all'imbottigliamento e promozione dell'olio.
Altri corsi includeranno lezioni e dimostrazioni sempre tenute da produttori e esperti degustatori dove sarà data la possibilità ai nostri clienti di degustare oli da diverse regioni Italiane. Sarà inoltre data al possibilità di visitare gli uliveti e i frantoi per aver modo di vedere come avvengono le varie fasi produttive e le diversità tra i vari metodi. Dove possibile nelle nostre "scuole" si tenderà a dare risalto a piccoli produttori locali che seguono i metodi biologico e biodinamico.



Several courses at the schools will be available, the basic course lasting a day with other more intensive courses lasting two or possibly three days.
The one day course will cover all the basics of olive cultivation and oil production, while the two and three days courses will also include visits to the olive producers groves and mills as well as more intensive talks and workshops on olive oil varieties and production and marketing techniques.
The schools will initially be located in the Marche region of eastern Italy, the first in the beautiful southern Le Marche town of Ripatransone, but we also have other producers who will be hosting our schools at venues at or near their olive mills in Puglia, Umbria, Sicily and possibly Tuscany.
All our tutors at the pop up schools will either be olive oil producers themselves or professionals closely involved in the olive oil industry and all will be fully qualified in leading tasting and oil appreciation classes.

Diversi corsi saranno disponibili con il corso base di un giorno ma possibilità di corsi più intensi di due e tre giorni.
Il corso di una giornata coprirà gli aspetti base della coltivazione e produzione di olio mentre i corsi di due o tre giorni includeranno anche le visite ai frantoi e ulteriori corsi di approfondimento quali la varietà di oliva, differenti metodi di produzione e strategie di marketing e promozione.
La "scuola" prenderà il via dalla regione Marche, sulla costa est dell'Italia, con la prima nella pittoresca cittadina di Ripatransone, ma abbiamo già contatti con produttori che ospiteranno la nostra "scuola" in Puglia, Umbria, Sicilia e probabilmente Toscana.
Tutti i tutor che prenderanno parte al progetto saranno produttori in prima persona ma anche figure professioniste del settore e coinvolte in prima persona con l'industria dell'olio d'oliva e quindi pienamente certificati e qualificati per la conduzione di classi e degustazioni.




Malta is also an interesting place to hold pop up olive oil schools as olive oil has been made their for many thousands of years, but unfortunately over the last few centuries and the second world war most of the olive trees on the island were rooted out and burnt. But in the past ten years many indigenous olive tree varieties have been replanted on the Island and once again find extra virgin olive oils have started to be produced in reasonable quantities.
We now have several small producers on Malta and one on the Island of Gozo who are working with us on plans for our first olive oil schools there next summer, as well as helping us with our ongoing plan of the Festivaldelgusto event on the Islands in May next year.

Malta è un'altra location veramente interessante per questo genere di progetto in quanto terra storicamente legata alla produzione di olio da millenni ma sfortunatamente durante gli ultimi secoli fino alla seconda guerra mondiale, la maggior parte degli ulivi sull'isola sono stati abbattuti ed interi uliveti bruciati. Ma durante l'ultima decade, grazie ad un progetto locale, molte delle originarie varietà di uliveti sono stati reimpiantate e negli ultimi anni si è reintrodotta la produzione di olio in discrete quantità.
Siamo ora in contatto con diversi produttori a Malta e sull'isola di Gozo che in collaborazione con noi stanno lavorando per la pianificazione di una "scuola"  da tenersi durante la prossima estate ed anche per la realizzazione di un Festivaldelgusto da tenersi sull'isola il prossima Maggio.




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