March 20-23, 2024, Bari, Italy. Only for organic extra virgin olive oils. BIOL registration and samples are due by January 30, 2024.

March 27-28, 2024, Paris, France. Registration deadline February 10; samples are due by February 20. Quality, design, kids, and ethical competitions, with the first including EVOOs, infused, and high phenolic categories.

February 2024, Madrid, Spain. Registration and samples due by February 14, 2024. This is the International Olive Council's official international extra virgin olive oil competition for the Northern Hemisphere.

Paris, France. UPDATE February 23: Registration forms and samples due by March 4, 2024 for the Northern Hemisphere. Awards announced in April; ceremony in the autumn. Flavored olive oils and other vegetable oils can compete, as well as extra virgin olive oils.

March 1, Lodi, Italy. Samples due by February 16. For monovarietal extra virgin olive oils only.

Toscolano Maderno, Italy. Entries will be accepted until 300 samples have been received, possibly up to March 1 for the Northern Hemisphere, from February 1 to June 1 for the Southern Hemisphere, and until May 1 for UN LEONE IN CUCINA.

April 25-27, 2024, Sparta, Greece. Last day for early bird registration: February 2. Last day for all registration: March 22. Final deadline for samples to reach organizers: March 29. Announcement of results: May 20. Awards ceremony: June 2.

Lisbon, Portugal. Registration and samples due by March 29.

New York, USA. Only extra virgin olive oils will be considered. Samples are due by April 1, 2024 for Northern Hemisphere entries; Southern Hemisphere samples will be accepted July 1 to October 1, 2024. See the website for detailed instructions and information.

April 11-14, 2022, Burhaniye, Turkey. Registration and samples due by April 1.

April 2024, Berlin, Germany. Registration until April 10, 2024. Samples due April 15. Includes quality awards for conventional, organic, and infused olive oils, plus awards for high polyphenols, innovation, and design.

May 2024, Beijing, China. Registration and samples due by April 18.

May 2024, Monte Carlo, Monaco. Registration ends April 25; samples are due by April 30. Quality, infused, and design awards will be presented.

May 12-15, 2024, Italy. Registration and samples due May 6. Extra virgin and flavored olive oils are accepted.

May 19-21, 2024, London, UK. Samples due by May 10.

May 2024, Tokyo, Japan. Registration deadline May 17. Samples must be received by May 20. Winners will be announced June 10. See the competition website for the “Buy 4 & get 1 free” offer.

June 2024, Tokyo, Japan. Early-bird registration until February 28. Registration and samples due May 31.

July 2024, Brazil. Samples are due by June 14. Registration can close at any time without notice. Extra virgin olive oils only.

"With 90 awards earned at the 2023 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition, producers from Greece reaffirmed their devotion to quality."

"Despite a challenging harvest season, producers, farmers and bottlers from across Greece combined to earn a total of 79 awards at the 2022 NYIOOC."

"Winners from Greece continue to share their enthusiasm for their record number of NYIOOC awards, a sign that the Greek olive oil sector is alive and well."

Nice vignettes by Costas Vasilopoulos featuring a few of the Greek winners at the New York International Olive Oil Competition.

Four Greek olive oil companies were ranked among the top ten healthy extra virgin olive oils at the unusual World’s Best Healthy EVOO Contest in Spain.

"With the highest ever turnout from Greece, producers from Crete were among the most successful at this year’s NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition."

These are the Greek winners at the famous NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition for 2020. For more about some of the Greek winners, see also Greek Producers Achieve Record Wins at NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition and Greek Producers Continue to Celebrate Record Year at 2020 NYIOOC.

In spite of poor weather and trouble with pests, Greek producers took home a total of 35 awards at the 2019 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition.

"With the historically poor harvest season behind them, Greek producers who managed a win in New York are setting their sights on brand building and achieving consistent quality."

The COOC has been instrumental in elevating the extra virgin olive oils produced in Crete; here are some of the brands to look out for.

A list of the very healthy, high phenolic winners of the Aristoleo Awards for extra virgin olive oil and table olives, with a chart showing different uses for olive oils according to their phenolic content.

Greek producers like these New York International Olive Oil Competition winners have studied modern olive oil production methods and engaged in the persistent efforts necessary to make some of the world's best olive oils.

Costas Vasilopoulos spoke with several Greek winners at the 2018 New York International Olive Oil Competition, where Greece won more awards and more gold awards than it ever had before.

At the 4th Panhellenic Olive and Olive Oil Festival, which is organized by the Kalamata Agricultural Cooperative in cooperation with the regional and local government and  other groups, important issues and food pairings were discussed, three people were honored for their contributions to the olive sector, and the Kalamata Olive Oil Awards were presented.

Thanks to science, experimental new methods and minute attention to detail, olive oil producers on Crete are forging new paths with an age-old product.

The winners of these awards produce especially healthy, high phenolic extra virgin olive oils. This is a good list to check out for particularly spicy olive oils full of health benefits. Awards ceremony at the 2nd Annual Aristoleo Conference “The Future of Olive Oil,” April 27-28, Nicosia, Cyprus.

When the Oleocanthal International Society convened last month, healthy Greek extra virgin olive oils won several awards at the World Best Healthy EVOO Contest and the Health and Food Awards, and scientists discussed research related to olive oil polyphenols.

First notes and photos from Cyprus about the recent conference focused on ultra-healthy high phenolic extra virgin olive oils, with awards presented to some of the healthiest olive oils in the world, including many from Greece and others made by Greek Cypriots.

Producers, marketers, and exporters of this year's best Greek olive oils share what their New York International Olive Oil Competition awards mean to them, how they manage to produce olive oils good enough to earn top honors, and how this fits in with their company philosophies.

"EVOOs were awarded by variety according 3 high phenolic types: Organic, Traditional, & Wild and based on the concentration of polyphenols in the 3 categories: TOTAL PHENOLS, OLEOCANTHAL & OLEACEIN, and OLEOCANTHAL." Many Greek EVOOs were winners.

The third edition of the competition had more entries and a higher percentage of organic olive oils than in previous years.

Twenty-one Greek extra virgin olive oils and two Greek flavored olive oils received Great Taste Awards in the United Kingdom this year.

Seven Greek olive oil companies won 10 of the awards at one of the world’s most eminent extra virgin olive oil contests, the OLIVINUS competition in Argentina.

The Oleocanthal International Society Conference and Olympia Health & Nutrition Awards featured breakthroughs in olive oil research, a new olive tree varietal, and an olive oil competition for high-phenolic oils. 

Here is a list of award-winning companies from the 2016 Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition. Notice, for example Village Batch’s Best of Class Gold Medal and the Gold Medals of PJ Kabos (2 of them) and Laconiko.

Award-winning Greek producers discuss their reactions to the New York International Olive Oil Competition results and their efforts to produce the best olive oils in the world. 

Here is a list of award-winning Greek companies from the 2016 New York International Olive Oil Competition (where some non-Greek companies happen to show up). See the article above for more details about the top Greek winners.

Toward the bottom of this page, you’ll find the lists of Silver, Gold, and Extra Gold medals for this competition in Puglia, Italy in March, with Greek companies on each list under the country “Grecia.” Note that Kyklopas, Olvia Green, and Mythocia won Extra Gold Medals.

The 2nd Cretan Olive Oil Competition took place March 19 to 20 in Rethymno, Crete, awarding prizes for the best standardized conventional and organic Cretan extra virgin olive oils from the 2015-16 production season. 

If you click on the final word at the end of the paragraph on the linked page, it will take you to a list—unfortunately only in Greek—of the winners of the 2016 Kotinos competition in Athens.

The first Cretan Olive Oil Competition (in 2015) sought to promote high-quality Cretan olive oil brands and the special characteristics of the best Cretan olive oils, to improve their position in the local and global markets, and to upgrade the overall quality of Cretan oils by developing the expertise of participants.