Zenit Oil Award 2020 bis
Every year we produce a small quantity of bottles of the awarded fruits selecting the best among them. We produce only 10.000 bottles of the best olive oil in the world, that represents the fruit of only about 800 trees. We choose the best product among the produced oil as usually there are slight differences even within the same land production and if the harvest is not finish we ask the producer to work in a midnight harvest.
Midnight Harvest.
Ancient producers in some parts of Spain used to harvest at night
to get the best quality and flavor. Harvesting before the sun rises increases the intensity of the flavor avoiding the heat of the sun and keeping all the flavor and properties intact. That olives must be protected in opaque bags and sent to the production facility as soon as they are harvested. As soon as they get to the production site the olives are squeezed and the olive is cleaned up. At that moment the ZOA is bottled in our high quality no pores ceramic bottle that keep the oil from the light. Then we have our ZOA ready to make happy 10.000 lucky people that will enjoy the best, most exclusive and probably the most expensive oil in the world.
Exclusive box lined and illuminated with led lights.
It contains a 750ml non-porous ceramic handmade bottle decorated with Swarovsky pieces, where the probably best organic extra virgin olive oil in the world is preserved from light.
At zenitawards we choose the best oil harvest in the world. We focus in the Mediterranean area, mainly Spain and Italy, but also France, Tunisia, Croatia, Greece and Israel for choose the best product among the best brands of every country. From 2020 we are only taking into consideration the ecological or bio products so all the products compete with the same tools, just nature and know how of each producer, no chemicals nor aditives.
Olive tree harvesting usually start from November and last until end of January depending on the climate. To be ready to select and award the best product by
the end of February, we pre-select the brands to be tested by September and we start the real testing and analysis from the moment we get the first oils. We try the products before finishing the harvest and production, December and January.
Pre-selection.
We select the products to compete in the awards in three ways. We have agreements with local specialists that gives us their country selection.
We get samples from many producers from all over the world that want to participate in our conquest.
We take into consideration the best 5 products awarded in local oil quality competitions.
What we consider: We are looking for the best oil in the world. We don’t consider the kind of olive or the mixture that performs in every oil. We really focus in the flavor and other considerations as color, acidity and other physical properties.
Who gets the award? In ZA we award the best oil production among the ecological productions. This can correspond to one brand or to several brands producing in the same area. The brand can use our award to give awareness to the brand or in the case of a territory award, all the brands working in that area and with that same ecological production method will be eligible to use our award name in their labels.