What Makes an Extra Virgin … Olive Oil?
by Rob Harris
A presentation to
Friends of CSU & Booranga Writers’ Centre members & friends
Booranga Writers’ Centre, Mambarra Drive, CSU Wagga Wagga,
6.30 for 7pm,
Thursday 7 March, 2024.
Cost: $15 (payable at the door)
RSVP: David Gilbey president@booranga.com
by 1 March (important for oil quantities & seating)
We will consider the positive
attributes that are necessary for classification of olive oil as ‘EVOO’, with summary
consideration of the major faults which classify an oil as an inferior grade …
AND … some points to consider when
buying Olive Oil.
There will be a comparative nose-on
approach during this overview session, with time for questions. Plus, some
sampling of The Olive Grove by Mark Brennan & Rob Harris, fourW
press, 1996.
Presenter: Rob Harris
Member Australian Olive Oil Sensory Panel 2002-2024.
Judge at various National and International Olive Oil
Competitions including:
·
Australian regional and National Olive
Oil Competitions.
·
Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards.
·
Germany, ‘Der Feinschmecker’, Hamburg, Joint venture
sponsorship by (Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation,
Australia) RIRDC/‘
·
Italy, Rome ‘Flos Oli’; Milano: ‘Monocultivar Olive
Oil Master certificated course’; Oil China; Rome L’Extravirgine A
Guide to the best Certified Extra Virgin Olive Oils of the World’; Ancona invited panel guest
(ASSAM).
·
New Zealand
National Competition.
·
Tunisia: Cover story
article, ‘Tunisian Harvest’, (photographic and text) for the Australian Olive
Association, ‘The Olive Press’. Study of
Tunisian Olive Oil production … Douz, Monastir, Chourbane, Mahdia, Sfax,
Kairouan.
·
New York International Olive Oil Competition (Judge and head Judge).
·
London International Olive Oil Competition (judge and panel leader).
Joint venture support has been provided by;
RIRDC (Rural
Industries Research Development Corporation, Australia)
Der
Feinschmecker, Hamburg, Germany
China Oil
Milan EVOOC
Flos Oli,
Rome
NZ EVOOC
New York
IOOC
London IOOC
