Italy comes to 200 records due to the PDO extra virgin olive oil Irpinia - UF Hills and continues to lead the rankings of reach for the Quality Certified.
12/03/2010

A relentless pace continues to be certified new Italian products. A few days after registration of the Apple Community Valtellina PGI has been certified extra virgin olive Irpinia - UF Hills, by Regulation (EU) No. 203/2010 of the Commission of 10 March 2010. With registration Oil extra virgin olive Irpinia - UF hills rising to 200 certifications Italian. Italy increased its detachment topped the list of quality followed by France with 167 and Spain with 131. Toccata share the coveted 200 after 18 years from the European Commission Regulation 2081/92 establishing the PDO and PGI and 2082/92, which regulates the STG, then replaced in 2006 by Regulations 510 and 509. The new product certificate for Grade Oils and organoleptic characteristics of great value. If young, is deep green color that can vary up to straw yellow. On the nose reveals fruity, with pleasant herbaceous notes and clean notes of tomato, also clearly perceptible by taste, tasting is balanced, with intense, but always pleasant and balanced, sensations of bitter and spicy, in keeping with the high content in polyphenols. The acidity can not exceed the value of 0.50%, with the panel test score of not less than 7. The product specification states that the oil DOP Irpinia - UF Hills derives not less than 60% (value raised to 75% for new plants) by the variety Ravece; for the remaining part can contribute other local varieties, first of all the Ogliarola, the Marines, the Olivella of Carife the Ruveia. Extremely small (not more than 10%) is the space for the variety "foreign" or the like Leccino Frantoio.
The environmental conditions and cultivation of olive trees, the types of farming, systems of pruning and fertilization should be traditional in the area, ideal for both to give olive oil from which they derived the characteristics of honor and typicality. The collection must be made no later than December 15 of each year. Even during transportation and storage of olives precautions must be observed to the preservation of quality: the olives must be kept in perforated boxes, or at least rigid and airy, and in thin layers under conditions of low relative humidity and low temperatures and be pressed within 2 days of collection.