Scent of Liguria in Portovenere: flavour and territory in Eastern Liguria

Promised, done. “Scent of Liguria”, the event in Genoa which was postponed a few weeks ago due to severe weather warnings took place at the Palmaria Restaurant of the Grand Hotel Portovenere on October 26th. “Investigation, entertainment, tasting”: the subtitle hints to the experiential dimensions of the initiative. The event included “Oil School”, a tasting […]

Geneva, October 1st – PDO Riviera Ligure EVO and the gala dinner of the Italian Consulate

ITALY ON STAGE: Geographical indications, traditions….emotions. Italian Geographical Indications will be the protagonists of the WIPO (The World Intellectual Property Organization) gala dinner which will be held in Geneva (Switzerland) at the Italian Consulate. The 600 guests will enjoy the best of Italian Protected Designation products. 20 Protection Consortia (including wine) featuring Caciocavallo Silano, Melanzana […]

Spring 2019 in the Riviera Ligure olive grove

After a season of hard work, spring is the time of ritual yearly farming operations. Special care is dedicated to interventions which can help prevent the biennial “high yield/low yield” dichotomy – manuring and pruning once more prove essential for the purpose at hand. Manuring took place in mid-March: humid soil, professional organic-mineral manure, highly […]

Spring 2018 in the olive grove of the Riviera Ligure

After a year marked by water shortage – though the indications of higher precipitations were confirmed in spring – interventions in the olive grove of the Riviera Ligure aimed at nourishing and sustaining plants. Fertilization is pivotal at this stage. Timasprint/Timagreen was used in this case: a special granular organic mineral fertilizer with a correct […]

PDO Riviera Ligure Extra-Virgin Olive Oil meets haute cuisine: three “starred” events for exclusive tastings

Training initiatives for Horeca profession A new promotion project of the Protection Consortium targets the Horeca industry  The PDO Riviera Ligure Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Protection Consortium is launching a new valorisation project designed for the Horeca industry, one of the key business sectors of agri-food excellences. The project aims at satisfying the quest for quality, […]

PDO Riviera Ligure EVO meets the schools of Liguria and Piedmont

The PDO Riviera Ligure Protection Consortium promotes new training sessions in Hotel Schools Cultural and professional approaches for the training of young students The PDO Riviera Ligure Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Protection Consortium promotes a new valorisation project on oil excellence addressed to the young students of Ligurian and Piedmontese Hotel schools. 80 training sessions planned […]

Harvesting and pressing: the 2017-2018 season’s oil from the olive groves of the Riviera Ligure

And that makes five. For the fifth consecutive year, we have reaped the fruit of a year’s labour in the olive groves of the Riviera Ligure. From 15 to 17 November 2017, our terracing of Lucinasco with 145 olive trees of the Taggiasca variety was the setting of the process called abbacchiatura [beating down the […]