Calabria’s Enotre Awarded Gold at World Competition

Enotre from Italy has won a Gold Award at the 2024 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition, the world's largest olive oil quality contest.

I’m very happy because I have won this award a few times in a row. This is confirmation that the path I decided to choose is the right one.

Pietro Pollizzi, owner

Situated in Calabria, Italy's second-largest olive oil-producing region, Enotre earned the World Competition award for its Olio Enotre brand, an organic medium blend of Carolea and Nocellara olives. The oil previously earned Gold Awards in 2019, 2020 and 2023.

"I’m very happy because I have won this award a few times in a row," said owner Pietro Polizzi. "This is confirmation that the path I decided to choose is the right one."

"I am more focused on quality than quantity, and I want to keep on creating excellent olive oil and offer my customers the highest satisfaction level possible," he added.

In the 2023/24 crop year, Enotre produced 5,000 liters of extra virgin olive oil using traditional methods.

"The main challenge was maintaining the highest quality standard my customers are used to in a year when production dropped dramatically," Polizzi said.

"I chose to continue growing organic olive trees and making organic oil because my olive grove is in a nature reserve, and I want to focus on the synergy between agriculture, respect for nature and tourism," he added.

The NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition is the world's preeminent olive oil quality contest. Its annual list of award winners is the authoritative guide to the world's best olive oils and the dedicated producers who craft them.

The complete list of winners can be viewed in the Official Guide to the World's Best Olive Oils.