Contrada Scintilia – Nocellara del Belice BIO
15,00€
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Medium fruity
Everything originates from the olive groves in Contrada Scintilia about twenty kilometers from the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento.
The Francesco Di Mino farm, for about a century, has been following the family olive groves with great passion, from father to son, for three generations, producing a high quality extra virgin olive oil, maintaining the values of tradition while evolving into extraction technology. The olive groves, of the Nocellara del Belice, Biancolilla and Coratina varieties, are grown in a natural way, without any use of chemicals and in compliance with the morphological characteristics of the land, attentions recognized by the certifications of BIO and PGI products. The organic extra virgin olive oil IGP Sicilia, from only Nocellara del Belice variety olives, is a medium intensity extra virgin olive oil that gives spicy and bitter flavors to the taste and gives pleasant vegetable notes of tomato to the nose that can enhance simple preparations with raw vegetables or orange salads but also legume soups, hummus and roasted meats.
Certifications: IGP Sicily / ORGANIC
Olive campaign: 2023/2024
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EAN: 0789011967471
Description
Medium fruity
Fragrance: elegant notes of green tomato, aromatic herbs, grass and pepper.
Taste: medium intensity spicy and bitter notes, herbaceous aftertaste, of artichoke, tomato and almond
Try it with… versatile raw and cooked, it enhances the salad of oranges, hummus and roasted meats
Geographic Area and Territory: Contrada Scintilia – Agrigento – Sicily
Olive campaign: 2023/2024
Sizes: 0.50 l
Monovarietal olive: Nocellara del Belice
Production method: continuous cycle
Storage method: stainless steel containers at controlled temperatures
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Awards and guides
Berlin Global Olive Oil Awards: Gold medal
London International Olive Oil Competitions: Quality – Silver medal
London Interational Olive Oil Competitions: Health and Claim – Silver medal
Sol d’Oro Verona Competition: Absolute beginners – Great mention
EVO IOOC International Olive Oil Contest: Silver medal
Milan International Olive Oil Award: Gold tasting cup medium green fruitiness
Italian Sommelier Foundation: 5 drops Bibenda 2022
Oli d’Italia Gambero Rosso 2022: Two leaves
Biol 2022 XXVII International Prize: Gold medal
19th National Review of Monovarietal Oils – Assam: Certificate of excellence
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Other information valid for all our extra virgin olive oils
Ingredients: 100% Italian olives, harvested in the right degree of ripeness and pressed in Italy with mechanical procedures
Storage: away from light, heat sources, bad smells and in hermetically sealed bottles. Remember, extra virgin olive oil is the enemy of light, heat and air
Expiration date: within 18 months from the date of bottling (deadline within which you can benefit from the nutritional values of extra virgin olive oil)
Use: every day raw or for short cooking at moderate temperatures
