In the beautiful and competitive world of olive oil, nothing says success more than the hundreds of customers who write to us to thank us for making L’Arte Olive Oil. That makes us want to go out and hug our olives.

But sometimes we get another kind of confirmation about L’Arte Olive Oil that adds to our satisfaction of making an olive oil for you of uncompromising quality that’s genuine and direct from our olivetos near our home in Cortona, Italy. And, that’s an award

We are proud to say that L’Arte has received it’s third Gold Medal - Northern Hemisphere, Non Organic Blend -- from the New York International Olive Oil Competition. There were more than 451 entries from 306 producers from Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Montenegro, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, and the United States.

If you take one look at our website or you have ordered one of our award-winning olive oils, you will know by now, we're crazy about olives. 

We confess, we love everything about them. Growing them, watching them grow, harvesting them and having them pressed into the highest quality, aromatic, rich olive oil you can put into your mouth.  So, we figured it was time to create a blog dedicated to the epic adventures of making our olive oil and putting it in your hands and mouths. Recipes, awards, trials and tribulations of what has become our life and our passion - L'Arte Olive Oil.   

Stay with us here and follow us on Twitter @lartedellolivo and as always, we welcome your comments and stories and recipes!