The Extra Virgin Olive Oil Monterosa, produced in Moncarapacho by Viveiros Monterosa Lda, has won ten gold medals at two international competitions.At the New York International Olive Oil Competition in New York, Monterosa olive oils won five medals. Earlier in the week, at Tokyo’s Olive Japan 2018 in Tokyo, the oils won five awards.
The decision to enter the highly competitive oilve oil business was taken some years ago by Detlev von Rosen whose untimely death in 2016 shocked the village of Moncarapacho which has supplied workers to the Viveiros Monterosa plant export business since the 1970s.
Monterosa Olive is a relatively new product within the well established Viveiros Monterosa business.
The investment in state of the art processing equipment was not taken lightly and has been paying off as year after year, the Moncarapacho olive oil has been beating more established competition from around the world.
Von Rosen planted 20 hectares with olive trees in 2000. The goal was to test if it is possible to make top quality olive oil in the Algarve and in 2014, when the first significant awards were being won - the answer was ‘yes’ and he saw early success before his death.
In the New York competition this year, the Monterosa olive oil was up against more than 900 oils from 27 countries and won gold medals for all the mono-varietals entered into the contest, Maçanilha, Cobrançosa, Verdeal and Picual, as well as in a contest for the best mixed oil.
This is the sixth consecutive year that Monterosa olive oil has won gold in New York, which, to the managers, "denotes the sustainability of the quality and excellence of the product and its visibility and recognition at international level."
In the contest in Japan, of more than 600 olive oils from 25 countries, Monterosa won five gold medals for the three mono-varietals - Maçanilha, Cobrançosa, Verdeal - and for a new olive oil released this year, ‘Horta do Felix.’
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