World's Best Olive Oils to be Unveiled in New York

Summary

The qual­ity and authen­tic­ity of olive oil is being ques­tioned due to alle­ga­tions of fraud and mis­la­bel­ing, despite research show­ing its health ben­e­fits in com­bat­ing dis­eases. The New York International Olive Oil Competition, the largest and most pres­ti­gious olive oil qual­ity con­test in the world, will fea­ture an exclu­sive tast­ing of the world’s best olive oils on April 14, 2016, fol­lowed by the unveil­ing of the win­ners and awards recep­tion.

Olive oil is on people’s minds like never before. After a sear­ing exposé on ​‘60 Minutes’ and ram­pant alle­ga­tions of fraud and mis­la­bel­ing, there has never been so much doubt about olive oil qual­ity and authen­tic­ity.

Meanwhile, an end­less stream of research con­tin­ues to extol the extra­or­di­nary health ben­e­fits of extra vir­gin olive oil to com­bat dis­eases from can­cer to dia­betes and Alzheimer’s.

On April 14, 2016 there is one place no one will doubt the qual­ity of olive oil before them, when olive oil pro­duc­ers retail­ers, dis­trib­u­tors, chefs and jour­nal­ists from around the world will assem­ble for an exclu­sive tast­ing of the world’s best olive oils fol­lowed by the offi­cial unveil­ing of the NYIOOC win­ners and awards recep­tion.

Now in its fourth year, the New York International Olive Oil Competition is the largest and most pres­ti­gious olive oil qual­ity con­test in the world.

More than 800 entries from 26 coun­tries will be ana­lyzed over four days by an inter­na­tional panel of the world’s most expe­ri­enced olive oil tasters.

The win­ning olive oils are cov­eted by chefs, food buy­ers and dis­cern­ing con­sumers every­where who value extra vir­gin olive oils of the very high­est qual­ity.

Capping the event at 5:30 PM is the press con­fer­ence where the NYIOOC win­ners — the World’s Best Olive Oils for 2016 — are unveiled.

The announce­ment, open only to event ticket hold­ers, is broad­cast live and cov­ered by regional and inter­na­tional media.

The press con­fer­ence will be fol­lowed by a recep­tion at 6:00 fea­tur­ing the ​“world’s best olive oil mar­tini” in honor of the com­pe­ti­tion win­ners.

The event takes place at 873 Broadway (at 18^th Street) near New York’s Union Square. A lim­ited num­ber of tick­ets to the event are avail­able on the NYIOOC web­site.