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Moutere Orciolo d'Oro Award || Mirisola SOL 2nd Place Award || Moutere Gold Star Award || Moutere Grove || Lakelands Olives Award ||Mirisola Prize || Mirisola Visits USA
Hermanos Catalán Wins...
OCTOBER 2008, Hermanos Catalán wins 1st place in Ecoviure (Catalonia) and 2nd place in Biocordoba (Andalucia). Click on the icon below to see the award.
Moutere Grove wins Orciolo d'Oro award
May 2008, Moutere Grove captured first place in the "Fruttato Leggero" (delicate) category for their 2007 harvest at the 10th International
Olive Oil competition in Pesaro, Italy.
Congratulations again to Ed & Liz Scott for a banner year!
International Award for Salvatore Mirisola
APRIL 2008, Salvatore Mirisola Olive Oils placed a very noteworthy 2nd Place at the SOL 14th INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF OLIVE OIL. Held in Verona Italy, 4000 wine and olive oil producers showed their finest products to over 143,000 visitors.The Verona Fair is considered the 'Olympics' of Olive Oil. (The Mirisola Oil is also featured in the April, 2008 Issue of Natural Health Magazine.)
"SOL promotes meetings with specialist operators from all over the world seeking at these events in Verona the chance to discover and appreciate the main culinary products of the Mediterranean diet." Le nostre massime congratulazioni!
Lakelands Olives recent Trio of International Awards
Der Feinschmecker awards both single varietal Lakelands Olives Olive Oils, Frantoio and Special Reserve. Special Reserve won 1st Prize in the Australian section of the international Biol Prize (June 2007), in Italy. In the Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition (May 2007), Lakelands Olives Special Reserve received a Bronze Medal. [see full article]
2007 Moutere Grove gets The Gold Star Award
Our 2007 Moutere Grove has just been awarded The Gold Star Award, as a food product of "Exceptional Merit” by the reviewers of the prestigious restaurant publication "Santé, The Magazine for Restaurant Professionals".
7th October 2006: A Gold Medal was awarded to Moutere Grove for the 2006 season blend at the
Olives New Zealand Extra Virgin Olive Oil Awards.
August 2005 - Moutere Grove was awarded a Gold Medal at the 'Great Taste Awards' run by the Guild of Fine Food Retailers in the United Kingdom.
These awards are known as the 'Oscars' of Fine Food.
Lakelands Olives Named Best in Australia for Third Straight Year!
Knut
Kamman of Lakelands Olives received the Carol L’Heureux Award for the Best
Oil produced in Australia in 2004, with his single varietal Frantoio oil.
The robust oil was entered in Class 1, Single Estate (min. vol. 200L).
Knut is shown here receiving the award at the National Olive Industry Conference dinner, held on October 30, 2004.
Presenting the award is Margi Kirkby, from Gwydir Olives.
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Salvatore Mirisola wins Prize
The "World Olympics of Olive Oil" is the Verona Fair, held in the spring of every year. At the urging of many fans, last year, Salvatore Mirisola entered his full-flavored extra virgin oil, for the first time, in this intense competition.
We are proud to announce that the oil was awarded the "Gran Menzione" Prize - equivalent to second price, in the competition for full flavored oils. It is as if Salvatore won the Silver Medal at the Olympics in his first major competition! More than 400 oils were in this category.
The award brought great recognition to the Mirisola family for their quality, and for their pioneering work with olive oil.
Congratulations to them!
Fall 2002 visit to the USA by Tito Mirisola
Tito Mirisola in the wine cellar at Symon's General Store, Petoskey, Michigan on September 18.
Tito visited 26 stores on his recent visit to the USA.
Salvatore and Tito Mirisola work as a team making their great olive oil, in Riesi, Sicily.
During the fall of 2002, Tito visited a number of retailers and restaurants in the USA for "in store events" as well as for some incredible dinners prepared by some of the country's most innovative chefs. Special dinners were organized at 312 Chicago, in Chicago, Germano's in Cincinnati, The Kirby Grill, in Grand Haven, Michigan, and at Esther's in Provincetown, MA.
He visited 26 retailers in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Connecticut and in Massachusetts.
More than 1000 people had the opportunity to sample the 2001 Mirisola oil in the stores, and more than 200 attended the special "olive oil dinners."
Tito was the special guest at a dinner organized by Don Newcomb, of "ChicaGourmet" in Chicago.
He is seen here with Chef Dean Zanella of 312 Chicago, and Mr. Newcomb.
40 people attended the dinner that featured a 6-course menu, prepared by Chef Zanella all using Mirisola Olive oil!
Though the trip was hectic, Tito had time to have two family reunions, hosted by his distant cousins Jerry and Marie Mirisola Antonellis, and by Charlie and Lisa Mirisola Fosdick in Massachusetts.
A grand party at the Antonelli's home in Norwood!