Crete’s Skoutari Olive Oil Earns 4th Gold Award

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

Faithful to our commitment to offer the highest quality, we continue our effort with even greater persistence.

Maria Sgouroy, co-owner

Based on the island of Crete, Greece's largest producing region, the company earned its fourth straight NYIOOC Gold Award for an organic medium-intensity Koroneiki.

"Winning the award filled us with pride in our dynamic course, but also with gratitude for our fellow travelers – Kokolaki's olive mill, Oliverse and the Organoleptic Laboratory of Crete – each of whom put their own stone on our path to ensure a successful final result," co-owner Maria Sgouroy said.

"Faithful to our commitment to offer the highest quality, we continue our effort with even greater persistence," she added.

In the 2023/24 crop year, Skoutari Olive Oil produced 1,500 liters of extra virgin olive oil using traditional methods.

"Climate change is the biggest crisis and also the biggest challenge we must overcome," Sgouroy said. "Seasons change, with winters becoming warmer and drier and summers cooler and wetter, making the olive's life cycle more difficult and favoring disease and pests."

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.