Training: Olive oil tasting workshops

AVPA offers you, with Cécile Le Galliard, virgin olive oil tasting workshops.

Term: 2 days

Number limited to 12 participants.

Day 1, Friday June 1, 2018

Initiation Tasting Workshop

For all olive oil enthusiasts who want to discover the basics of tasting.

Time: Afternoon from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Prerequisites: none

Program:

• Get to know the different stages of elaboration and the characteristics of the product: production, composition, nutritional aspect, reading a label, regulations...
• Discover the methodology of tasting virgin olive oils and its mechanisms
• Develop and refine your sensory perceptions: recognize the different fruity notes, detect bitterness and pungency (spiciness). What is direct olfaction and retronasal olfaction?
• Acquire the vocabulary of olive oil tasting (Writing the organoleptic profile of an olive oil)

Day 2, Saturday June 2, 2018

Perfection Tasting Workshop

Time: in the morning from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Prerequisites: Have completed the previous “initiation” workshop or have good knowledge of olive oil tasting.

Audience: Experienced amateurs, Professionals in the olive sector, catering trades or the food industry.

Program:

• Discover the official tasting methodology: tasting conditions for a test panel, training methods for tasters
• Developing and refining your sensory perceptions: what are the faults of olive oils? What factors can influence the quality of extra virgin olive oil? Recognize the different commercial categories (lampante, virgin, extra virgin)
• The hedonistic tasting; contest tasting

Oils tasted: 10 oils from several producing countries (3 oils from the Olio Nuovo Days route).

Useful information

Price: 85€ per workshop and special rate to attend both workshops, full course: 150 € TTC/person

For reservations:

Purchase of tickets online

Email: contact@avpa.fr

Phone: 01 44 54 80 32