Mario Solinas IOC 2025 Award Winners

The Mario Solinas Quality Award is an international competition organized annually by the International Olive Council (IOC) to recognize and promote excellence in the production of extra virgin olive oils (EVOO).

The Mario Solinas Award

This award honors the memory of Italian professor Mario Solinas, a distinguished researcher who made a significant contribution to the standardization of olive oil quality criteria.

This competition began in 1993 and has since had a transformative effect, leading many companies, cooperatives, and small brands to improve the quality of their oils, ultimately benefiting both the industry and consumers.

The Mario Solinas Award seeks to encourage producers, cooperatives, and brands to market EVOOs with excellent organoleptic characteristics—like all the Extra Virgin Olive Oils you can find at Molino y Cata.

2025 Winners

The Mario Solinas is one of the most coveted awards in the sector and this year it went to:

• Intense Fruity: Exemplum from Colival , Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real
• Medium fruity:Jabalcuz Gran Selección, Los Villares, Jaén
• Light fruity: Nutrifarms II Olives , Algés, Portugal
• Ripe: Olea Kotti , Kroussia, Tunisia
• Small Producers: La Pontezuela Farm , Toledo
• Packers: Muela Oil Mill , Priego de Córdoba

The importance of this award lies not only in the recognition of the producers but also in encouraging others to improve the quality of their products in order to participate (and win).

The importance of this award

The Mario Solinas Award has gained global recognition, becoming a benchmark for quality in the olive oil sector. Producers from various countries participate annually, reflecting the importance of the award in promoting quality and competitiveness in the international olive oil market.

Our vision of the Mario Solinas Award

From the perspective of a professional in the sector, wanting to achieve quality is fine, but if there is no incentive to foster that quality, that initial effort and drive can ultimately fizzle out.

We send a big hug to the winners, and as always, we're happy to know we've chosen the right producers to work with.