Aristoleo Awards

10/03/2026

After 14 years of activism, research, creating the first high phenolic EVOO competition (Aristoleo Awards) multiple awards for innovation, hundreds of thousands of euros investment, and a deadly diagnosis we are finally represented by an institution far from the bureaucratic nightmare that is the EU...
Aristoleo Certified is a designation you can trust.

Sometimes being a revolutionary is in your DNA My mother was a nurse and a pioneer, though no one called her that at the time. She believed, long before it was fashionable, that food and natural supplements could support the body and the mind — that nutrition wasn't a footnote to medicine, it was ...

09/26/2026

Drop by drop the olive harvest has begun... join the Aristoleo Awards and get certified. Don't miss another year...
Send me a message and I will forward the application to you.
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09/21/2026

09/02/2026

Olive Oil and W**e a Match made in Heaven or Mt Olympus

07/19/2026

Diamantis Pierrakos flew from Manassas, Virginia where they opened a new 15,000 sq. ft. facility to house their expanding business and their full array of products. Diamantis arrived and stayed till the end to honour us for the work we are doing. We continue to fight for what's right. The full recognition of early harvest EVOO made from specific varieties as medicinal.
It is already being recognized by millions of consumers who have tried it and have seen the results for themselves.
Our work now is to certify these "medicinal" quality EVOOs in order to deliver to the consumers the highest concentration og phenolic compounds possible. We track and trace the journey of the olive from the grove to your table. We ensure the temperatures does not exceed 15°C or 59°F during storage. As much as possible they are bottled on demand, regularly organoleptically tested and analyzed by qNMR.
Aristoleo Certified is the only program that actually certified high phenolic EVOOs. We use the same standards used by the food supplement brands.
WE did this because we want to ensure the olive oil you receive is the same quality that you paid for.
Too many time we have seen even the finest olive oils lose their potency because of storage or transportation high temperatures or improper packaging. Just because the packaging looks "cool" does not mean it is...
We examine all aspects of the process before certifying an olive oil.

06/22/2026

Aristoleo Awards 2026 is one of the most exclusive and relevant high phenolic competitions on the planet. Aristoleo Awards was the first to employ the analysis of the concentration of active bio-phenols and specific taste parameters to ensure it is indeed in the extra virgin category.
We may be small but we are mighty!

Active bio-phenols are dose dependent. The concentration does matter!

Now in its 11th year we have survived and flourished to see the growth of this category of high phenolic EVOO dominate the EVOO market. So we went one step further to ensure the claims that are made are backed by valid monitoring of storage and display temperature and quality.

Now that high phenolic EVOO become popular it must be protected from the opportunists.

Aristoleo Awards 2026 for high phenolic EVOO celebrated its 11th ye...

06/13/2026

Other olive oil producers from other regions, for example in this case Spain, are coming together to create their own certification and monitoring protocols to ensure the EU health Claim is implemented.

This is good news for the producers of high phenolic olive oils in Spain. But what are the Greek high phenolic EVOO producers doing? Same as always! "Everyman for himself."

There are always exceptions of course and Aristoleo Awards represents the brightest examples of these exceptions that seek to bridge the gap between the disinterest of the bureaucrats in defending the quality of Greek high phenolic EVOO and the "everyman for himself" attitude of other high phenolic EVOO producers.

You can meet theses exceptional companies (not all Greek by the way. We also have Croatian, Slovenian, Cypriot and Italian brands taking part, at the ARISTOLEO AWARDS:
https://aristoleo.com/aristoleo-awards/aristoleo-awards-2026-winners/

SPANISH PREMIUM EVOO producers are not waiting for the government to act on their behalf anymore. They have taken the "bull by the horns" and create their own protocols and certification.... sorry but I could not resist the reference... "bull by the horns" :)
https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/grades/spanish-premium-olive-oils-to-carry-new-health-focused-certification/144371

Herminia Millán, manager of QvExtra!, the Spanish association of premium extra virgin olive oil producers behind the new Corazón SIQEV certification.

06/13/2026

14 years have passed since we began this journey to reawaken the spirit of excellence in olive oil by promoting early harvest olive oil's enhanced health benefits. We did not invent it, It was invented at least 5,000 years ago and then forgotten. Cast aside. Diminished and available only to the very few olive growers who recognized and still remembered its true value but could not market it. It was priceless! So they produced it for themselves and their families and gave it away to friends. This happened in every olive growing region in the MED region. From Greece to Cyprus, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Its has finally come out of the deep underground cellars to the light of day and ia available, tracked and certified and awarded so that you get exactly what you pay for. Try it today and tell us what you think.
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