# The best Italian olive varieties

Taggiasca, Nocellara del Belice, Bella di Cerignola, Coratina and Frantoio: Italy's most celebrated olive cultivars.

- 47 votes · 20 items
- Jun 11, 2021 · Federico Costa
- https://even.best/en/l/3924/the-best-italian-olive-varieties

## Top 20

1. **Taggiasca** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Small Ligurian olive for the table and delicate oil.
2. **Bella di Cerignola** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Giant table olive from Puglia.
3. **Coratina** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Apulian cultivar for intense, bitter oil.
4. **Frantoio** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The classic Tuscan oil cultivar.
5. **Peranzana** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Cultivar from Foggia.
6. **Tonda Iblea** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Cultivar from the Iblei mountains.
7. **Moraiolo** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Umbrian-Tuscan cultivar for fruity oil.
8. **Ascolana tenera** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The olive used for stuffed olive all'ascolana.
9. **Carolea** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Calabrian dual-purpose cultivar.
10. **Bosana** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sardinia's main cultivar.
11. **Pendolino** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Tuscan pollinator cultivar.
12. **Biancolilla** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sicilian cultivar for delicate oil.
13. **Ravece** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cultivar from Irpinia.
14. **Itrana** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — The black Gaeta olive.
15. **Leccino** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Tuscan cultivar grown throughout Italy.
16. **Ogliarola** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Apulian oil cultivar.
17. **Cellina di Nardò** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Salento cultivar.
18. **Nocellara etnea** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Cultivar from Etna's slopes.
19. **Casaliva** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lake Garda cultivar.
20. **Nocellara del Belice** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Large Sicilian green table olive.

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