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Ta' Matti presses extra virgin olive oil in the Madliena area of Malta, from several varieties on its land plus the indigenous Bidni. By the account of Olivaverde, the olive oil business behind the Mediterranean Olive Oil Academy, which met the growers at the annual olive oil festival in Zejtun, the owners planted their first trees about fifteen years before 2018, guided by the Maltese olive oil specialist Sammy Cremona, who has also pressed and made their oil each season.
A Bidni from the same area carries a second name. Under the Bidnija label the Mediterranean Olive Oil Academy produces oil with Maltese olive farmers, naming the Spiteri family, growers of Bidni for more than fifteen years by its account. The first run was picked over two days in late September in the Madliena area; in 2019 the Maltese harvest opened on 20 September, weeks ahead of Sicily, and the olives were driven to Sicily and milled the next day by a specialist mill there, the Academy citing the difficulty then of finding a Maltese mill working to a high enough standard. The bottled oil then went to a certification panel in northern Italy, which judged it extra virgin, and a professional Italian tasting panel deemed it outstanding.
Quantities are small: Bidni yields far less than the Italian varieties widely planted on the islands, is grown a few hundred trees to a parcel on thin alkaline rock, and is high in polyphenols, low in acidity and resistant to the olive fruit fly. More trees went in in January 2020.
From the public record: mediterraneanoliveoilacademy.org · olivaverde.co.uk
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