Italy has stopped meeting local demand for a while at this point. The bulk of the EVO oil sold here seems to be Spanish, and if you go in any grocery store (bi

Italy has stopped meeting local demand for a while at this point. The bulk of the EVO oil sold here seems to be Spanish, and if you go in any grocery store (big or small) you'll have trouble finding a bottle of EVO oil that is 100% made in Italy. Most of them (I'm tempted to say the majority, but I only have anectodal data) have a disclaimer on the label stating that the oil was "made from oils sourced from the European Union". Last time I saw an actually made in Italy bottle of oil was in a specialized store, and it costed about 3x more than those in the grocery shops. There was recently a very thorough investigative journalism report by an Italian program on public television called "Report" that dug quite deep into the whole deal with Italy and oil. Turns out that there's also a lot of shadiness going on in the industry. I'd link to it, but it's entirely in Italian and last I watched it there were no subtitles whatsoever. Sorry.