We first visited the award winning Olio Poldo an olive oil producer near Castelfidardo in the Marche region of Italy last summer where we were very impressed by their passion and enthusiasm for producing fantastic blended and also several monovarietal olive oils. Olio Poldo is a close knit family business and their olive groves are located near to the Adriatic coast in the beautiful Marche region of central Italy. Lorenzo Polacco started his work with olives as a professional

Ta Matti extra virgin olive oil is produced by Jo and Carmen in the beautiful area of Madliena on the island of Malta and we first came across them and their fantastic olive oil at the Zejtun olive oil festival last September. Carmen and her son were on a stand selling this excellent olive oil at the Zejtun festival and allowed us to taste some of their oil after which we bought several bottles to use at our base in Malta and also take some to Italy for Italian olive oil tast