Terra Sávia’s Classic Tuscan wins Bronze at this year’s Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition. This year they received 477 oils from 318 worldwide producers from Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay and the United States.

While most of us think that olive oil comes from countries like Italy, Spain and the Middle East, the extensive list of participating countries shows that olives can be grown in many parts of the Earth. From this noble fruit , fine oils of outstanding taste, character and complexity can be produced. So forget cheap supermarket oils with no taste. Go explore the wonderful world of extra virgin olive oils that are out there. We certainly will.