Planeta Awarded for Organic Sicilian PGI Blend

Sicilian producer Planeta has won a Silver Award at the 2024 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition, the world's most prestigious olive oil quality contest.

Consumers are finally understanding that a great bottle of olive oil is mandatory in any real food lover's kitchen.

Alessio Planeta, CEO

The seventeenth-generation producer has a long legacy of success at the World Competition, winning seven awards since 2017. Once again, the company earned the NYIOOC accolade for its Planeta Tradizionale brand, an organic medium-intensity blend.

"We are truly happy and flattered by this award," chief executive Alessio Planeta said. "We are happy, especially because we think U.S. consumers increasingly appreciate the true quality of premium olive oil from the best regions of the world."

He added, "Consumers are finally understanding that a great bottle of olive oil is mandatory in any real food lover's kitchen."

In the 2023/24 crop year, Planeta produced between 120,000 and 140,000 liters of extra virgin olive oil using traditional methods.

"The last harvest was not challenging for us: quality was at its best; quantity, compared to the last five years, was on average," Planeta said. "Moreover, we run our 148 hectares of olive trees in the Oasi di Capparrina in Menfi, Sicily, with the gentlest and most respectful agricultural procedures, so we are much less liable to production's ups and downs."

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.