Good Things From Italy - Le Cose Buone d'Italia

Olive trees have been growing around the medieval hill top village of Mogliano, in Le Marche for about 2,400 years – long before there was even a town there. The most prized trees in this small area are those of a cultivar called ‘Piantone di Mogliano. It’s a variety so prized that it has its own fan club ‘Associazone Il Piantone di Mogliano’ and is celebrated annually with its own festival ‘Sagra della bruschetta all’olio di Piantone di Mogliano’ (Feast of bruschetta with Piantone di Mogliano olive oil).
It is held in such high regard because on the one hand it is full of complex flavours, whilst at the same time it is wonderfully delicate.

There are still many people who don’t know the difference between a good and a bad olive oil. They are all the people who have never tasted a good one! Because once you have tried a good olive oil, there is simply never again the chance of mistaking that bland mass produced greasey liquid in the supermarket for the real thing. So says Nina, who runs the Natali grove and olive press. She keeps a bottle of supermarket olive oil at the press so that she can use it to demonstrate the world of difference between it and the heavenly liquid pouring off her olive press. [...]