Manuela was born in Genoa but spent her entire childhood in Imperia. Currently, she splits her time between Imperia, Shanghai, and Bangkok.

Manuela represents the fourth generation of can makers and is involved in the Guatelli Museum. The museum collects the Family Collection of Italian Olive Oil Cans, which includes over 6,000 pieces of olive oil cans and lithographic stones. This collection is an important testimony to the flourishing industry related to the oil trade that developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 2006, Manuela moved to Asia with her husband and four sons.

Despite the distance, Manuela has not forgotten her roots. She promotes the prestige of extra virgin olive oil and the history and flavors of Mediterranean cuisine beyond national borders by organizing Italian cooking classes, on-demand chefs, and catering. Her passion for extra virgin olive oil stems from her family, as her father dedicated his life to producing oil cans. Every week, my father would cross Europe to sell his cans. He would return home on weekends with fascinating stories and anecdotes about the oil industry.

His global view of the market allowed him to understand even the smallest nuances, which inspired me to pursue a career in this wonderful world. In 2024, I finally fulfilled my passion by attending the ONAOO course and becoming a Professional Taster. Manuela collaborates with several Italian associations abroad to promote the history, culture, and art of extra virgin olive oil tasting worldwide.

Domenico was born in Messina in 1986 and graduated in biological sciences with a degree in nutrition.

He currently works as the chemical laboratory manager for oil quality control at ‘Manfredi Barbera e Figli SPA,’ one of the most well-known oil mills in Sicily.

In 2021, he obtained his physiological suitability for tasting and in 2024 he obtained the title of professional taster O.N.A.O.O.

Giuseppe was born in a small town in the province of Foggia, San Giovanni Rotondo. For work reasons he moved to Campania, where he still lives today.

Strongly tied to the memories of his beloved Puglia, Giuseppe decides to open a farm to be able to carry on the family business to which his father has dedicated himself for more than 50 years; in the middle of the Tavoliere delle Puglie, every year 2,400 olive trees are finely selected in order to offer the best extra virgin olive oil.

In order to enrich his knowledge, Giuseppe decides to start his training course in the ONAOO School in 2018 and ended in 2021: after passing the exams of the Advanced Course, Giuseppe obtains the qualification of ONAOO Professional Taster.

In addition to the training activities, Giuseppe participated in the ONAOO Meeting in 2020 and other online tasting activities also organized by the School.

Born in Imperia in 1994 and resident in Chiusavecchia (IM), a small village where the family business is located.

He pursues the Diploma at Business Linguistic High School in 2014. He is firmly determined to carry on the family tradition in the field of olive oil production, focusing on the control of the different production phases (cultivation, harvesting, crushing and selection of olives for the very start to the various packaging processes).

Since 2016 he has been included in the “Elenco Nazionale Tecnici ed Esperti degli oli di olive vergini ed extravergini” with DD 606/16 of Liguria Region.

In 2017 he participates in the International Course of Olive Oil Cultivation, Olive Oil Extraction and Sensory Analysis of olive oils organized by Accademia Nazionale Dell’olivo e Dell’Olio and by ONAOO. In 2018 he finished the three-year course and obtained the Qualification of ONAOO Professional Taster.