Leading the way for Flos Olei Tuscany and Puglia. Spanish Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil of the Year, Tuscany Company of the Year. Spain, Croatia, Greece, South Africa and Chile are also in the rankings.
Rome is getting ready to welcome the new edition of Flos Olei: the competition dedicated to the best Extravergines from all over the world, curated by Marco Oreggia and Laura Marinelli, makes an appointment for Friday, December 5, for the awards ceremony and Saturday, December 6, for a tasting with the best of the world’s production, at The Westin Excelsior, in the heart of the Capital. In this edition there are 500 producers and 761 Extravergines in the guide, from 5 continents, 57 countries of the world, 35 olive-growing regions (20 from Italy and 15 from Spain) with 92 world maps. As many as 912 pages, recounting the most fascinating territories and the best realities of the sector in a single manual produced in three bilingual editions (Italian-English, Italian-Chinese and Italian-Spanish).
The Hall of Fame
The Capitol event will also be an opportunity to meet the 9 companies that have earned a prestigious place in the Hall of Fame. As many as 5 of them are Italian:
- Comincioli (Lombardy),
- Fantoio Bonamini (Veneto),
- Frantoio Franci (Tuscany),
- Viola Farm (Umbria) and
- Americo Quattrociocchi (Lazio)
Rounding out the ranking are 3 Spanish companies Casas de Hualdo (Castilla-La Mancha), Castillo de Canena and Aceites Finca La Torre (Andalucía), and Croatian company Mate (Istra).
The Best Awards
Not to be outdone are the 20 companies on The Best list, which has Italy in the lead with 13 awards, followed by Spain with three, and South Africa, Chile, Greece and Croatia with one.
- Company of the Year is Fonte di Foiano (Tuscany),
- Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil of the Year is from Spain’s Dominus (Andalucía)
- Emerging Company is Cuadrat Valley (Cataluña),
- Green company is Sabino Leone (Apulia).
- Best Extra Virgin from Organic Farming is from Masoni Becciu (Sardinia)
- Company of the Heart is Mandranova (Sicily)
- Best Extra Virgin from Organic Farming and PDO/PGI is from the company Tommaso Masciantonio (Abruzzo).
- Best Extraction Method is from Spain’s Rafael Alonso Aguilera – Oro del Desierto (Andalucía),
- Best Value for Money is from Frantoio di Massarosa (Tuscany),
- Best Quality/Quantity Ratio is from the South African De Rustica Estate (Cape)
- Best Quality/Packaging ratio relays from Chile’s Agrícola Pobeña (VI Región – Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins).
Monovarietal, Blended and PDO/IgP categories.
In closing, the awards for the Monovarietal, Blended and PDO/PGI categories cannot be missed:
- Best Monovarietal – Light Fruity toAzienda Agricola Le Tre Colonne (Puglia)
- Best Monovarietal – Medium Fruity at Cioccolini (Lazio)
- Best Monovarietal – Intense Fruity to Azienda Agricola Terre di Poesia (Puglia)
- Best Blended – Light Fruity at Gaudenzi Oil Mill (Umbria)
- Best Blended – Medium Fruity Croatian-style O.P.G. Rheos (Istra)
- Best Blended – Intense Fruity at the Frantoio di Croci (Tuscany)
- Best PDO/PGI – Light Fruity Greek-style Olive Poem – A Drop of Art (Peloponnisos)
- Best Dop/Igp – Medium Fruity to Accademia Olearia – Tenute Fois (Sardinia)
- Best PDO/PGI – Intense Fruity at Pruneti (Tuscany).
The 4 special awards
The rankings closed with four special awards: Importer of the Year to Chic Taste by Yiann Wang (Taiwan), Restaurant of the Year to Restaurant Mancini (Sweden), Journalist of the Year to Milanka Bulimbašić Botteri – Maslinar (Croatia), and the “Cristina Tiliacos” award to Yuko Okuma (Japan).
Curators’ comments
“We are ready again in this new edition ,” explains Marco Oreggia, creator and editor of the guide, “ to continue to tell the story of the work, passion and stories of the producers who contribute to the success of olive growing worldwide. Once again this year , Italy proves to be an international reference point, amidst great confirmations and productions of excellence yet to be discovered. At the same time, the guide highlights a great vitality of the sector in much of the globe: in fact, from Spain to Croatia, Greece, South Africa and Chile, a world of olive growing emerges in great shape, increasingly attentive to sustainability and production quality.”
“As every year, we want to celebrate not only the extra virgin olive oils of excellence,” stresses Laura Marinelli, editor of the guide , ” but also the constancy and consistency of those producers who are able to carry out a path made of research and enhancement of the territory, where innovation does not erase tradition, on the contrary it renews it and makes it even more alive.
The presentation of the Flos Olei guide
- LOCATION: The Westin Excelsior Rome – Via Vittorio Veneto, 125
- DATES: Friday, December 5 and Saturday, December 6, 2025
- HOURS:
- Friday 5: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. (press conference: presentation of the Flos Olei guide and awards ceremony)
- Saturday 6: 10 a.m.-8 p.m:
- 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (free tasting, tasting classes)
- 3 p.m. – 8 p.m. (free tasting, tasting class and corner with chefs)
- ENTRANCE
- 10.00 euros (glass + cup holder).
- 20.00 euros (glass + glass holder + 3 tastings with chefs).
Reservations recommended at: https://flos-olei-tour-in-rome-2025.eventbrite.it
Free entrance for operators (journalists, importers, restaurateurs and producers of evo oils in the Guide).
