Local entrepreneur champions olive oil flights in top world wine region

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Operating out of an area that’s recognized as a top wine region in the world, a local entrepreneur and PBS podcaster is taking the wine flight approach to selections of olive oils people use in food flavoring and cooking.

Claudia Hanna-Veysel has also been spreading her knowledge of the health benefits and tastes of olive oil through classes at the University of Virginia and James Madison University.

“You know, everybody thinks of olive oil as just healthy. It is, but ‘yes but’. There are 2000 different varieties of olives in the world and not all are consumable with 50o-to-600 of those varieties,” Hanna-Veysel told Cville Right Now…

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