Despite Covid and Drought, Australian and New Zealand Producers Shine at NYIOOC
Australian producers took home a record-high 13 Gold Awards, while producers from New Zealand earned a perfect success rate. Photo: Olive Black, New Zealand
Jun. 2, 2021
Part of our continuing special coverage of the 2021 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition.
Extra virgin olive oil producers from Australia and New Zealand have combined to win more than 20 awards for the first time at the 2021 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition.
By several metrics, producers from both countries enjoyed their best performances at the world’s most prestigious olive oil quality competition.
Boundary Bend Plants California’s Second Largest Medium-Density Grove
Officials from the company said the medium-density groves provide them with the flexibility to select the best olive variety for each growing condition.
Photo: Boundary Bend
Six years after the company first set up shop in California, Boundary Bend has planted the second-largest medium-density olive grove in the United States.
“We have just planted two groves of 450 and 350 acres (180 and 140 hectares),” Paul Riordan, the company’s co-founder, told Olive Oil Times.
Studies have shown that the productions of a medium-density grove over a 30-year life cycle are higher and more sustainable than high density.
May 27, 2021
Asia’s love for Evoo shows no sign of slowing down, with producers like the Xiangyu Olive Development Co making oil on par or better than their Mediterranean counterparts.
Xiangyu Olive Development Co
Top-quality extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) evokes images of sunny Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Greece and Italy - places where olive trees have been grown for millennia for their precious essence.
However, thanks to a number of Chinese and Japanese producers who are making olive oil whose quality is on par with or better than that of their Italian and Spanish counterparts, t his picture is changing.