What Makes an Extra Virgin … Olive Oil? by Rob Harris

 

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