Looking for the best extra virgin olive oil from Malaga
The new edition (and there are already 20) of the awards for the best extra virgin olive oils (EVOO) from Malaga organized every year by the Diputación is already underway with the opening of the Registration deadline that allows oil mills from Malaga to submit their applications until next April 13.
The contest, whose objective is to promote and improve the image and market position of EVOO from Malaga and stimulate the production of quality oils, has three categories: extra virgin olive oil ripe fruity, intense green fruity and medium green fruity.
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It will be a independent Jury, composed by professionals from the olive oil sector, restaurants and food critics, the one in charge of selecting the best EVOO of the 2020-2021 campaign in each category. And they can only participate in this edition the oils produced during the 2020-2021 harvest.
The winners will receive 6,666 euros per category for the acquisition of award-winning products for promotional activities. In addition, the oil mills will be able to display the reference to the award on the labeling of their award-winning oils and will enter the national and international promotion and marketing circuit of the Sabor a Málaga brand and the Tourism Costa del Sol promotion company. A single prize may be received per participant regardless of the category or modality.
Authorized oil mills or extra virgin olive oil manufacturing companies that are registered in the General Sanitary Registry of Food and Food Companies of the Junta de Andalucía as well as in the Registry of Agri-food Industries of Andalusia.
All the information about the administrative procedure to follow to participate in the contest is collected in the Official Gazette of the Province of Malaga.
The contest will have three categories: ripe fruity extra virgin olive oil, intense green fruity and medium green fruity.
Once the documentation has been presented, it will be the Delegation of Sustainable Economic Development of the Diputación de Málaga who will be in charge of carrying out the collection of the necessary samples in the entity registered in the contest and to proceed to the sealing of the corresponding deposit or deposits.
In total, they will collect four samples for each oil that is presented: one for sensory analysis, another for physical-chemical analysis in the specialized laboratory, the third will be reserved as a safety sample and the fourth will remain in the oil mill or production company itself. Each one of them will be sealed and will have a label on which the name of the contest, announcement, date of sampling and identification code with two numbers referring to the oil mill and the prize category must appear.
Subsequently, once the sample collection process has been completed, the Award Secretariat will assign a number to each of them, correlative and replacing the identification code, so that the tasting can be done blindly without any reference to the origin of the sample.
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