The Lesbos producer earned two awards in New York, led by a Gold for Oleve Special Selection and a Silver for Oleve Early Harvest.
Olive Oil Times |
Sigri, Greece — Falcon has been awarded a Gold at the 2026 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition for the Oleve Special Selection brand.
Falcon also earned a Silver Award in the 2026 competition for Oleve Early Harvest, underscoring a multi-award performance that continues the Lesbos-based producer’s consistent results on the global stage.
Oleve Special Selection is a medium-intensity extra virgin olive oil produced from Koroneiki and Kolovi olives. The oil is distinguished by herbaceous notes and a bright green tomato character, delivered in a balanced profile that reflects careful fruit selection and close attention to timing from harvest through extraction.
Oleve Early Harvest, also of medium intensity, is a Koroneiki monovarietal recognized with a Silver Award. Together, the two 2026 awards extend Falcon’s track record at the NYIOOC, where the producer has amassed 11 total awards, including nine Gold and two Silver. Falcon previously earned two Gold and one Silver in 2025, followed by three Gold in 2024 and three Gold in 2023.
Falcon’s olive-growing presence on Lesbos has been shaped by long-term orchard development in the island’s west, where the company has worked to establish productive groves in a landscape that, in earlier years, was largely undeveloped. In a recent season marked by historically low output in Greece, Olive Oil Times reported that production on Lesbos fell sharply, tightening the margin for error for growers and millers and making quality-focused decisions across the supply chain more consequential.
Falcon’s family operation cultivates 50,000 olive trees from 12 varieties, including Kolovi, Koroneiki, Kalamon, Picual and Arbequina. Alongside the olive groves, Falcon has planted pomegranates, figs, palms, cypresses, jojoba and other species, building a diversified landscape on the island. Falcon enriches the soil with its own compost produced from local seaweed, manure and pruned branches, a closed-loop approach that links orchard care to the year-round management of organic matter generated on and around the farm.
The two 2026 NYIOOC awards place Falcon among Greece’s most decorated producers in this year’s results. In the Olive Oil Times World Ranking, Falcon ranks #6 in Greece, #52 in the Northern Hemisphere and #53 Worldwide.
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