Olive Oil Tasting Kit

The essential tools for thoughtful olive oil sensory evaluation, assembled in one working kit.

A Complete Tasting Bench

Whether you're learning to evaluate olive oil, leading tastings for others, or assembling the tools for a professional sensory practice, this kit brings together the core references and equipment I use and recommend.

It includes twelve tasting glasses made to the official International Olive Council specification, properly sized watch glass covers, two complementary sensory wheels, and two different styles of tasting journal. Together, they provide the tools to taste, describe, record, and better understand the oils before you.

Each component is also available separately. When purchased as this kit, you'll save 15% from the regular combined price of $262.00.

What's Included

12 Official IOC Olive Oil Tasting Glasses
Two boxed sets of six cobalt-blue glasses made to the official International Olive Council specification. Our glasses have been trusted by serious olive oil tasters since 2010.

12 Watch Glass Covers
Laboratory-quality borosilicate watch glasses sized specifically for IOC tasting glasses. They help retain volatile aromas while the oil is warmed and protect the sample before evaluation.

Recognose® Olive Oil Tasting Wheel by Dr. Richard Gawel
A taxonomy of positive and negative olive oil sensory attributes that provides a common vocabulary for describing aroma, flavor, and other sensory characteristics.

The Defects Wheel® by Susan Langstaff
The diagnostic companion to the Recognose® Wheel, connecting recognized olive oil defects with their likely biological, chemical, and production-related causes.

33 Bottles of Olive Oil™ Pocket Tasting Journals — Set of Three
Compact field journals for recording up to 99 olive oil evaluations. Particularly useful when traveling, judging, visiting mills, or tasting wherever a full-size notebook would be impractical.

American Olive Farmer Olive Oil Tasting Journal — One Journal
My larger, guided format for thoughtful evaluation. It provides a structured progression through aroma, flavor, finish, complexity, harmony, and personal observations, with space to record twelve oils.

Two Wheels. Two Different Purposes.

The two sensory wheels included in this kit are deliberately complementary.

Dr. Richard Gawel's Recognose® Olive Oil Tasting Wheel helps answer:

What am I tasting?

Susan Langstaff's Defects Wheel® helps answer:

Why am I tasting it?

Used together, they move sensory evaluation from recognition and description toward diagnosis and understanding.

Two Ways to Record What You Taste

I've also deliberately included two very different tasting journals.

The American Olive Farmer journal provides a guided framework with generous writing space. It is particularly useful for developing a tasting practice, teaching, and more confident tasting.

33 Bottles of Olive Oil™ assumes that you already have an established method. Its compact format encourages concise observations and slips easily into a pocket, apron, handbag, or briefcase.

There is no need to choose between the two approaches before you've tried them. This kit gives you both.

Who Is This Kit For?

The Olive Oil Tasting Kit is well suited to:

• Olive oil sommeliers and sommelier students
• Producers and millers
• Professional judges and aspiring judges
• Tasting room managers
• Culinary schools and educators
• Olive oil clubs and tasting groups
• Serious enthusiasts who want to evaluate olive oil using professional tools

For educators conducting larger classes, additional tasting glasses, watch glass covers, and Classroom Packs of 12 American Olive Farmer Tasting Journals are available separately.

Kit Details

• 12 IOC-specification cobalt-blue olive oil tasting glasses
• 12 laboratory-quality borosilicate watch glass covers
• 1 Recognose® Olive Oil Tasting Wheel
• 1 The Defects Wheel® for Olive Oil
• 3 33 Bottles of Olive Oil™ Pocket Tasting Journals
• 1 American Olive Farmer Olive Oil Tasting Journal
• Regular combined value: $262.00
• Kit price: $222.70
• Save 15%

Availability

Stocked in Northern California, this kit typically ships within one business day.

Canada: Professional sensory supplies are available through our authorized Canadian representative, Emily Lycopolus of Olive Oil Critic. Ordering within Canada may reduce shipping costs, customs processing, brokerage fees, and delivery times.

Professional and institutional inquiries from outside the United States may be considered on a case-by-case basis.