It is the special recognition awarded by LODO to companies or oils with particular characteristics: “Lodevoli” Quality and eco-sustainability, research and innovation, sacrifice and passion, boldness and courage, dynamism and style, are the hallmarks of the “LODE”award.
«Values and Ingenuity, Strength and Will, the traces that mark out a path and bring a project to fruition, actions that deserve to be recognised and rewarded, businesses that deserve to be Lodate»
The bottle, the label and the packaging that collectively represent a style.
An extreme interpretation of oil, an increasingly precious elixir distilled from nature. Far from modernist interpretations or rustic temptations, the presentation of ‘Farchioni – Collezione di Famiglia’ makes a timeless choice of style its own, abstracted from the context, speaking the language of elegance in the clear and immediate shapes of the bottle and packaging. Black and gold, played between decorations and graphics, give an idea of beauty that suggests its intimate goodness.
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The prize awarded to the oil with the highest percentage of polyphenols.
An amazing extra virgin olive oil, which in its scents not only offers a gourmet experience but also embodies the power of an incredible polyphenolic charge. The green cure for mind and body, deserving of the dedication beyond time of this important award.
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The prize is awarded to the company with a small production of excellence.
From one of the PDO jewels, for the small size and excellence of its extra virgin oils, Azienda La Collina has succeeded in creating an oil that for its structure, harmony and balance of scents reveals on the palate the depth and elegance of exemplary extra virgin.
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A major recognition assigned to a company that has risen to become a symbol of innovation in olive growing.
Graziano Decimi is at the helm of the company of the same name, a company that focuses attention to detail both in the olive grove and on the machinery. Minutiae and technical devices that daily press on in the search for an innovative operation that transcends into the excellence of its oils.
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Great passion and dedication accompanied by sacrifice and hard work are the manifestation of great talent.
Claudio, a young man who has made religion of his land. Care, respect and love for everything that surrounds him, his plants, his land, his grandfather’s precious teachings for quality production and above all, a solitary path, which characterises his choice. A talent to protect.
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To the company in the Southern Hemisphere symbol of excellence.
𝗡𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮, a name that encapsulates the philosophy of a company capable of interpreting its territory by creating oils of 𝗟𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝗶, in which the intensity of soils rich in precious elements is found in the decisive yet enveloping scents that characterise the verticality of extreme quality productions to give the emotion of a flavour 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗼.
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The Marche company that obtained the highest score among the companies in the Marche region.
A superb extra virgin oil that excels in the panorama of the Marche region’s excellent olive productions. A deep, balanced and enveloping oil that gathers the preciousness of the small DOP of Cartoceto and transforms it into a Rossinian work of taste.
The oil with the best light, medium and intense fruitiness based on the LODO Evaluation system in prestigious gourmet contexts.
Anno Zero Italiano Biologico is the regal protagonist of Chef Arrigoni’s ad hoc creation. An oil that intersects fresh and slightly balsamic scents in a spiral of velvety sensations. A dedication of love that accompanies refined flavours with great class.
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Structure and balance are the adjectives that identify Buraschi IGP Toscano Montepulciano. A medium fruitiness that gives the scents of the land of Siena an expression of perfect poetic taste. The almondy herbaceous emotion is elevated in Chef Claudio Sadler’s creation of a gourmet dish, designed to enhance the suave harmony of an epic extra virgin.
Lagar H Manzanilla the fulcrum of flavour on which Chef Vincenzo Candiano’s attention focused, creating a signature dish for an oil that permeates the palate with sensory wonders. An oil that moves, a symphony of taste to the rhythm of samba.
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We are in Illasi, in the highest part of the Veronese hills, where the magic of a refined olive oil production is born, that of Frantoio Bonamini, a historic company that skilfully transforms olives into a precious green elixir. A refined, elegant, classy extra virgin olive oil, the fruit of the passion of a great family, which masterfully narrates its land, with a unique style, the Bonamini style.
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Sicily, Monti Iblei, ancient land, millenary history, here Tenuta Cavasecca, in the presence of centuries-old olive trees, translates olive-growing tradition into art. A precious oil, a company that interprets the intensity of a magnetic land through the creation of a sublime extra virgin, which in its power gracefully excites. Strength, tradition and quality, oil blends with uniqueness, the magic of Tenuta Cavasecca.
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The creativity of a leading master pastry chef for a signature dessert. An oil selected in the 2023 edition will be the star of a unique dessert.
A company that tells a personal portrait of the oil that is discovered in the production of hermetic, unique and extraordinary extra virgin olive oils. Today, the family remains the primary value of the company that tells of a path of research and the highest quality.
With Quinta Luna, haute patisserie unveils a Holy Grail.
A commission of professional journalists and food critics tasted 10 finalist oils selected in the 2023 edition
It is the harmony of herbaceous and almondy scents and the power of a Sicilian oil that conquers even the most severe palates, permeating them with suave notes of deep intensity.
A merry-go-round of olfactory-gustatory scents that generates strong emotions, enclosed in that perfect structural balance that defines Bell’Omio as an idyllic extra virgin.
The haute cuisine of a great Michelin-starred chef: the selection, from among the finalists, of the oil that won this prestigious award.
An oil, a story, an emotion that caught the attention of two extraordinary chefs like Chicco and Bobo Cerea. For them, a star shines in Sicily and is powerfully expressed in Angelicum Summa, an extra virgin oil that has been able to permeate their exalted palates and become the king of the table.
The Corsican aromas expressed in Athéa struck a chord with Chicco and Bobo Cerea. A balanced complexity of almondy and balsamic hints allowed this great oil, a harmonious song of flavours, to be crowned queen of the table.
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