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It’s About Time; Savantes Launches a New Approach to Extra Virgin Olive Oil Profiling
It is about time; Savantes launches the Savourgram© which gives a visual profile of the intensity, persistence, and flavours of an Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Simon Field, founder of International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes and creator of the Savourgram©, offers the new method as a practical visual aid to describing flavour to consumers. He said,’ Most of the descriptions of flavour are abstract, the flavour profile articulated but not defined, the positive characteristics are not quantified, and the length or persistence of the flavours is not timed. The Savourgram © profiles the oil and increases accountability’.
The process involves describing the aroma in terms of intensity and descriptors, then constructing a graph which gives intensity over time on the palate for the oil as a whole or, in an advanced version, for each of the characteristics of fruitiness, bitterness and fieriness.
Savantes Seville, Spain
Using the Savantes Savourgram© to Profile Extra Virgin Olive Oils as a Commercial Advantage
Programme Seville 10th and 11th September 2026
Hotel Becquer, 4 Reyes Catolicos, Seville, Spain
An invitation only, one-off, event to promulgate the use of the innovative flavour profiling method – the Savantes Savourgram©.
Members of the International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes Register (including those who become members after the skills test on September 11th) will leave with:
- The ability to use the Savantes Savourgram©.
- The authority to use the Savourgram© in their enterprises for prescribed activities and with appropriate attribution.
- Access to modifications and refinements of the method.
- Access to the ‘Aegis of Savantes’ affirmation for events.
Every participant will leave with a new and unique practical method of profiling extra virgin olive oil for clients, sales, marketing, blending, training, and events.
ERTH - Pioneering Extra Virgin Olive Oil event, ‘The Many Facets of Olive Oil’, launched in Jordan by the ‘ERTH’ initiative.
ERTH (an Arabic word meaning heritage, culture, and tradition passed down through generations) is an initiative launched by Savante Tala Saket, merging culinary craftsmanship with sensory fluency to create stimulating experiences centred around Extra Virgin Olive Oil. ERTH is the lens through which place, culture and emotion are captured.
Its first event, ‘The Many Facets of Olive Oil’, was launched in Amman, Jordan, on 18 April 2026. A model that is built on the progressive sensory structure of olive oil moving from flavour recognition and oil identification to culinary application and transformation. Participants were guided through the Savantes inspired ‘Alphabet of Aroma’ to sharpen aroma description, then profiling of three extra virgin olive oils (from Spain, Jordan, and Tunisia), and testing the flavour impact of the oils with a series of dishes of Jordanian cuisine, created from local seasonal ingredients.
Savantes Australia 2026
Late 2026
Melbourne, Australia
Profiling the World’s Extra Virgin Olive Oils
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Discussing Markets, Health Benefits, Culinary Uses and Quality Standards
Excellent Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Valuable Knowledge and Good Company makes Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes Much More than Tasting
- Learn to use the Savantes latest method to profile olive oil – the Savourgram©
- Provides opportunities to improve personal tasting knowledge and confidence
- Through its tasting skills review recognises and rewards competency
- Is unaligned and independent
- Is an international movement connecting people in many countries; and
- It fosters respect for the products of all producing countries