And if the bottle says it is from Sicily, it is probably really from somewhere like Tunisia.
People will pay extra for what they think is Italian-source olive oil.
That’s why this mezzo-Italiano prefers Greek and Turkish Olive Oil.
They BLEND oil there and it could come from North Africa as well as Spain, or even Italy.
According to an extensive test done about a decade ago by a German university the best olive oil from the German perspective ("Least poisonous" was their term) was sold by Aldi's ~ that's their Bertolini brand I believe.
I've used it before ~ and even after it's sat around for a couple of years it's still a good product. Some far higher priced oils have short shelf lives.
People will pay extra for what they think is Italian-source olive oil
Read an article a few monts ago about olive oil shipped in tanker trucks from Spain and Portugal to Italy where it was mixed with local olive oil and sold as genuine Italian extra vergin oil, the article recomended California olive oil as it is likely to be purer, whoknew, we buy our oil by prize