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2024November 8, : Hankyu Umeda Main Store Italy Exhibition


1030 days of the month〜11For 6 days until the 4th of the month, at the Italian exhibition held at the Hankyu Umeda main store in Osaka,

I have been working as an olive oil sommelier.


Planned by Mr. Hankyu Umeda, it is an epoch-making booth where you can taste all of the approximately 50 types of olive oil sold at the Italian exhibition and compare them.


Customers can compare the foods in one place, so they can find the olive oil they really like without being sold.


Our job as a sommelier is to ask our customers what kind of dishes they usually use or want to use.


Do you like bitter and spicy, do you want to use it for bread and salads, do you like a lot of Japanese food, do you like fruity food, do you like alcohol, etc.



After asking for some information, 3 from the back shelf〜6We propose as many types of olive oil as possible.



Almost all of our customers said,

"Olive oil tastes so different."

"It's completely different from the olive oil I use at home."

"There are those that are smooth in the mouth and those that are sticky and smelly."

"This is delicious〜I!!

"This is smelly, sticky and disgusting!!"


If you compare them on the spot,

"I don't know the taste of olive oil at all!"


These are the words that I said in unison.


We, the sommeliers, also answered the customer's question about why the taste is so different.


In closing, I said:


"Extra virgin olive oil, which smells good and tastes good, is good for the body.

It tastes bad, and my mouth is sticky after eating it〜First of all, it's not extra virgin, and it's not good for you."


That's what I said to everyone.

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2024October 10 - : Diebole Coratina(2024) 250ml


OLIVE JAPAN 2024
Toshiya Tada Special Sommelier Gold Award
(It is a finalist for the grand prize.)

2023Annual oil pressing
From Italy
Coratina monovarietal

Selling price 3996 yen(Tax)


It has a green scent like fig leaves. It has a strong aroma for a Coratina variety.
This is the most distinctive feature of the pressed coratina from Diebore.
It has a crisp spiciness like a cracked shell, the bitterness of strong tea, and a refreshing sweetness.
It looks like a mouth after drinking high-quality strong gyokuro tea.
It is a wonderfully well-made oil.

　
[How to use recommendation]
Black bread, arugula and bitter melon salad, boiled Manganji pepper, beef steak and yakiniku, grilled eggplant, mackerel stewed in miso, bibimbap, grilled fish(Eat offal with it, for example, swordfish, etc.), more than 90% dark chocolate, etc.

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2024October 10 - : Diego Chianti Classico 250ml


Diego Chianti Classico 250ml

Selling price 3996 yen(Tax)

OLIVE JAPAN 2024
Gold Medal Winning Olive Oil

2023Oil Pressing of the Year Italian
A blend of 3 varieties: Leccino, Moraiolo, and Frantoio
It is a DOP certified olive oil.


It has a refreshing and festive scent of herbs such as mint, eucalyptus, and funnel.
The balance of refreshing sweetness, tea bitterness, and spiciness like white pepper is very wonderful, and you can see that it has been carefully squeezed.
＊DOP…… Designation of Origin Protection System

[How to use recommendation]
Hard bread, yakiniku, minestrone, salad, tomato, miso soup, natto, kimchi, bibimbap, seafood okoge, grilled green onions, ice cream, etc.

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2024September 23 - : Recent Thoughts


I'm very happy,

Since this summer, I have suddenly become busy.


What I had been sowing seeds until now began to sprout little by little.
Suddenly.



[If you work hard, the results will definitely follow]

I saw it on someone's Instagram,

This fell into my stomach.


I feel like something has changed since then.



I celebrated my 61st birthday in May of this year.
I'm not aware of it at all.

I feel like I'm in my 30s, really! !


I just want physical strength! ! It's these days that I feel sorry for it.



First of all, I have to do something about this wagama body! !

I feel sorry for it these days.

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2024July 1 - : This year's [OLIVE JAPAN 2024] has come to an end.


6For two days on the 28th and 29th of the month,
It was held at the Courtyard by Marriott Ginza Tobu Hotel in Tokyo.


1On the day of the event, even though it was raining from the morning until the evening, there were many visitors.

More and more olive oil and other products were sold at each booth.


2On the day of the event, the weather had improved, so the number of visitors was several times larger than on the first day, and the venue was overflowing.



Thanks to you, our booth and customers were uninterrupted, and I continued to explain, and I was exhausted by the time the store closed.


Thank you very much.
I would like to express my gratitude.


DIEVOLE presses wonderful oil every year

This year, Coratina won a special gold medal
Chianti Clasico wins gold medal

awarded.
Just a few bottles were purchased, and a lot of them were purchased.
　
And 40% raw pistachios certified by Bronte DOP [LAVICO]

This is the first time that 100% raw pistachios are in stock.
【LAVICO. PURA】


This is also very popular, so most of the people who tried it purchased it and it was almost sold out.



When I return to Sasebo, I will set up the online shop, so please wait a little longer.


I was really happy to be able to tell many people about the wonderfulness of olive oil and the rarity and intensity of the LAVICA series.


Thank you very much.

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