Category: International Trade

Toshiya Tada – Olive Japan 2012

This article first appeared in the Olive Oil Times. This morning olive oil judges from Spain, Italy, Israel, Turkey, Australia and California are making their way across the world’s oceans

TerraOlivo 2010 Announces Results

The Olive Oil Times has just published an exclusive  article of my coverage of the Competition and Congress at TerraOlivo 2010.   You can read it here, “Israel Hosts TerraOlivo

TerraOlivo, Day #3 – All in Good Taste

I was mighty impressed by the coordination of the TerraOlivo 2010 program.  Moshe Spak, the organizer introduced me to Leo, who was in charge of the samples and set up.

TerraOlivo Day #2: Variety is the Spice of Life

The soft sschick of protective glass covers sliding off official blue tasting glasses; the brusque schqqq schqqq schqqq of  precisely warmed olive oil being aerated across official palates; the particular

Israel Welcomes TerraOlivo 2010

Earlier today an international jury of 18 certified olive oil judges began the 3-day process of blind tasting 189 extra virgin olive oils from 14 countries.   I’m at the

InterVin: The Wine Pavilion at Alimentaria Barcelona

At 72,000 square feet and 12x bigger than the olive oil space, the wine pavilion at Alimentaria in Barcelona accommodated 30,000 visitors, or about 23% of all attendees.   According to

Shanghai Prelude: 6th Oil China Exhibition 2010

As some of you know, my writing is asynchronous with my travel; I try to be fully present when I’m on the road, and then write at the pace of

Olivaria – Spanish Olive Oil, part 3: So Many Oils, So Little Time

Alimentaria in Barcelona devotes about 6,000 square feet to olive oil in the pavilion called “Olivaria”, and in the very back were several banks of long high tables for the

Olivaria – Spanish Olive Oil, part 2 Olive Juice and Other Ideas

We’re at Alimentaria Barcelona, the mega trade show for food and wine held in Spain each year, and as I walked through the 6,000 square foot olive oil showcase called

Olivaria – Spanish Olive Oil, part 1

The outbound Lufthansa flight from Tunisia departed at 2:30 am, and the route had us flying north to Frankfurt to catch a flight to our next destination south to Barcelona.