Italy is the world\u2019s leading consumer of extra virgin olive oil.<\/p>\n
Italy is also the olive oil producing country with the highest number of varieties in the world. It is estimated that there are more than 500 varieties <\/strong> of olive trees (cultivars), capable of producing a multitude of excellent oils. All these cultivars, multiplied by the number of microclimates in Italy and the different qualities of the soil, make Italy the undisputed qualitative star of the world olive oil market. L’Italia \u00e8 il primo consumatore al mondo di olio di oliva, in particolare extra vergine. L’Italia \u00e8 anche il paese produttore di olio di oliva con il pi\u00f9 alto numero di variet\u00e0 al mondo. Si stima che ci sono pi\u00f9 di 500 variet\u00e0 di piante da olive (cultivar), capaci di produrre un’infinit\u00e0 di oli d’eccellenza. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lolio"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nOther producing countries, such as Spain (the world\u2019s leading oil producer, by quantity), have much fewer cultivars: 50-70 at the most.
\nSome of the best-known Italian cultivars are: leccino, frantoio, moraiolo (in Umbria and central Italy), coratina, ogliarola, biancolilla, nocellara, taggiasca, moresca, carolea, itrana, etc.; each with different characteristics that vary from region to region, from place to place.
\nPreserving and enhancing the varietal heritage of a given territory means protecting quality and maintaining the organoleptic characteristics of oils that make up their \u201ctypicality\u201d, guaranteed by the POD and IGP <\/strong>designations of origin.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"