The world’s largest and most pres­ti­gious olive oil qual­ity con­test is reveal­ing award win­ners among nearly 1,100 Northern Hemisphere entries. We are fol­low­ing the results live.

Growing olives in Valle d’Aosta, a moun­tain­ous region enclosed by the Alps, seemed unthink­able until a group of dar­ing farm­ers decided to try.

With more pro­duc­ers tak­ing advan­tage of advances in milling tech­nol­ogy, are pit­ted oils set to become a more com­mon sight on store shelves or are they des­tined to remain a niche prod­uct?

Priorat is what I can only describe as the most visu­ally intense part of Siurana, and here I must try to curb my hyper­bole. I doubt I will suc­ceed.

Want to know how Fairway sells so much olive oil? It’s not the mind-numb­ing vari­ety, nor the nearly over­whelm­ing bar­rage of infor­ma­tional sig­nage and col­or­ful posters that accom­pany this remark­able array.