About the Catalogue

Olive Oil Palette is a curated sensory reference for extra virgin olive oils. It brings together professional tasting data, producer profiles, and analytical scoring into a single, searchable index designed for buyers, sommeliers, journalists, and discerning consumers.

Our goal is to make the complexity of olive oil transparent. Each entry in the index is built from a structured sensory evaluation, capturing not only the final score but the full aromatic and gustatory signature that defines the oil.

Every oil in the index is evaluated through a standardized sensory protocol. Tasting panels assess appearance, aroma, palate, and retronasal persistence using controlled vocabulary and calibrated intensity scales.

The methodology and scores presented here are based on the official panel of the Berlin GOOA Awards, a member of the GOOA Awards.

The key dimensions recorded for each sample include:

• Harmony — the overall coherence between fruitiness, bitterness, and pungency.
• Aroma Fruitiness & Olive Maturity — intensity and typicity of the aromatic profile.
• Clarity of Expression — how distinctly the oil communicates its origin and cultivar character.
• Retronasal Fruitiness — the persistence of fruit aromas after swallowing.
• Bitter, Pungent & Sweet — the balance of the three primary gustatory poles.
• Balance & Persistence — structural integration and length on the palate.

Aroma descriptors are recorded individually and grouped into families such as herbaceous, floral, fruity, nutty, and spicy, allowing users to search oils by character as well as by origin or producer.

The index operates on two viewing profiles: a public profile and a private producer profile.

All scoring is derived from the official evaluation framework used by the Berlin GOOA Awards, a member of the GOOA Awards, ensuring a consistent and internationally recognized standard.

Public view — Harmony. Visitors browsing the index see the Harmony number, a normalized expression of overall sensory quality that reflects the balance, intensity, and typicity of the oil without revealing the underlying competition score.

Producer view — Score. When a producer signs in with their company-linked account, they can access the detailed score for their own products. This score is the weighted result of the full sensory evaluation and is reserved for the producer and authorized internal users.

This two-tier system protects commercial sensitivity while still giving the public a meaningful, comparable measure of quality.