GUIDE TO TASTING

Olive oil tasting steps

- 1 -

Put some oil in the glass and lightly warm it, covering the top of the glass.

- 2 -

Smell the oil, first briefly, then more deeply trying to capture the different aromas.

- 3 -

Sip a small quantity of oil (about 3ml) trying to keep it in front of your mouth between yuour lower lip your tightly shut teeth.

- 4 -

Breathe in through clenched teeth, first delicately, then more vigorously, so as to vaporize the oil inside the mouth and the sides of the tongue, where the taste buds are.

- 5 -

While trying to identify and catalogue all the different aromas and flavours, exhale from the nose so that vaporized oil particles can reach the nasal membrane giving even more precise sensations.

- 6 -

Once tasting is completed, oil can be expelled.