{"id":2250,"date":"2013-09-03T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T10:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:55:44","slug":"sas-top-5-olive-oils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/sas-top-5-olive-oils\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019S Top 5 Olive Oils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Olive oil enthusiasts can now look out for a handful of exceptional and locally produced olive oils that were voted as 2013\u2019s Absa Top 5. The olive oils were critiqued by an esteemed panel of qualified olive oil tasters.\u00a0 Porterville Olives took two spots on this prestigious list along with De Rustica Olive, Gabrielskloof and Rio Largo Olive Estate.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>All five of the winning olive oils are in the Intense style: De Rustica Private Press \u2013 Intense Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Gabrielskloof Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Porterville Olives\u2019 Andante Intenso and Andante Forte Intensely Fruity, and the Rio Largo Premium Blend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTasting and comparing twenty of such high quality olive oils is an extremely difficult task \u2013 but a pleasure nonetheless,\u201d says Gerrie Duvenage. \u201cThese five olive oils simultaneously excite, challenge and satisfy the palate and deserve to be highlighted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Absa and SA Olive established this new competition as part of the annual SA Olive Awards where, this year, 100 olive oils competed for the honour of winning a gold medal. \u00a0The Absa Top 5 was accordingly selected from the SA Olive top 20 achievers. \u201cThe Top 5 selected olive oils can be seen as a unique selling point for the South African olive oil industry. We hold the achievement of these producers in high esteem. We congratulate the winners and finalists for their participation and dedication to produce the highest standard of quality oils\u201d, says Brienne van der Walt, Managing Executive, Absa AgriBusiness.<\/p>\n<p>Absa will be inviting top clients to taste these winners, as well as this year\u2019s Top 10 Pinotage wines (also sponsored by Absa) during select tastings on 9 October at Coastlands in Umhlanga Rocks and at the Leriba Lodge in Centurion on the 31<sup>st<\/sup> of October.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saolive.co.za\/\">www.saolive.co.za<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>for more information on the Absa Top 5 and the SA Olive Awards or contact SA Olive at tel (021) 870 2900 or email <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:info@saolive.co.za\">info@saolive.co.za<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow SA Olive on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SaOliveIndustryAssociation\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>and Twitter: @SAOliveIndustry for the latest news and events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olive oil enthusiasts can now look out for a handful of exceptional and locally produced olive oils that were voted as 2013\u2019s Absa Top 5. The olive oils were critiqued by an esteemed panel of qualified olive oil tasters.\u00a0 Porterville Olives took two spots on this prestigious list along with De Rustica Olive, Gabrielskloof and Rio Largo Olive Estate. All five of the winning olive oils are in the Intense style: De Rustica Private Press \u2013 Intense Extra Virgin Olive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4098],"tags":[3093,3094,3095,3096,3097,3098,3099,3062,3100],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-absa-olive-oils","tag-absa-top-5-olive-oils","tag-de-rustica-olive","tag-gabrielskloof","tag-olive-oils","tag-porterville-olives","tag-rio-largo-olive-estate","tag-sa-olive-oils","tag-sas-top-5-olive-oils"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}