Hard Word Yields Gold Award for Orcolo’s Organic Oblica

Croatian producer OPG Đani Lazar has won a Gold Award at the world's most prestigious olive oil quality contest.

We are very happy that we won our first Gold Award at NYIOOC. It is confirmation that we are working and going in the right direction.

Karlo Lazar, co-owner

The Dalmatian producer earned the award at the 2024 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition for its Orcolo brand, an organic medium-intensity Oblica.

"We are very happy that we won our first Gold Award at NYIOOC," co-owner Karlo Lazar said. "It is confirmation that we are working and going in the right direction." Before this year's Gold Award, Orcolo won Silver Awards in 2021 and 2022.

Lazar added that this year's award was especially gratifying after the difficulties the company faced during the harvest in producing high-quality extra virgin olive oil. "It was a very challenging and dry year in our region, but hard work paid off," he said.

The NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition is the world's preeminent olive oil quality contest. Its annual list of award winners is the authoritative guide to the world's best olive oils and the dedicated producers who craft them.

The complete list of winners can be viewed in the Official Guide to the World's Best Olive Oils.