Ellen Wu is a Professional Taster of ONAOO since 2013. She imports olive oil in Taiwan. She handles marketing and education in her company.

She teaches olive oil tasting classes to chefs, salespeople, consumers, teachers, and students.

She wants to educate people and consumers about different olive oil products. She must also teach Taiwanese people about the nutrition and health benefits of extra virgin olive oil, and help them understand different types of olive oils based on their taste.

O.N.A.O.O. President since 1997.

My journey in extra virgin olive oil began in 2018 at ESAO in Valencia, Oliveoil Times educational Lab in London 2020 and ONAOO since 2022-2025 where I finished as a professional oliveoil taster. I grew up in a restaurant and worked in restaurants in Copenhagen, Aix en Provence and New York.

Back in Denmark in 2006 I met Stig Larsen who had a delikatessen shop where he sold table olives, balsamico and extra virgin olive oil. Since I already knew a great deal about food and wine, we were a perfect match. While working as a waitress I took the wine sommelier education and finished in 2011. Then I began working with Stig, who later became my husband.

Now we have a small Market Hall on an island called Bornholm, where we sell extra virgin olive oil, parmesan, Parma ham, balsamico and also local delikatessen and run a cafe with tapas, sandwiches etc.

I work in our (my husband and I) market hall with delikatessen from Bornholm and the Mediterranean countries. We also do olive oil tastings, we have a cafe and do tapas and different events.

My introduction to the olive oil world was a breakthrough for me, since I have been searching for a field that I love and can be in for the rest of my life. I simply love this amazing community of people in the olive oil world.

Antonella has been an ONAOO professional taster since 2017.

After obtaining her sensory certification, she has been a member and judge of the Swiss Olive Oil Panel (SOP) at the ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management since 2002.

Since 2002 she has been a judge for the “ZHAW International Olive Oil Award” and other international competitions. She is the owner and managing director of “Mitera GmbH”: a producer of Cretan millennial quality olive oil, approved by DNA in both Crete and Umbria. She is also a nutritionist.