Who We Are and Why You Can Trust Us

The Story

It is in the heart of Irpinia, among its green and rugged hills, that the story of the Contedoro olive mill begins. Everything started in 1927, when olives were still crushed with granite millstones turned by a horse, and the extracted oil was then resold along the village streets.

This ancient family tradition tied to olive trees and their wonderful product has been passed down for 4 generations. Today, the company is led by Alfio who, with the same passion as those who came before him, carries on the family business with an eye to the future, improving and modernizing the production process to ensure a superior quality extra virgin olive oil.

Contedoro focuses entirely on the quality of the final product, which is why it chooses only local olives, supplied by trusted Irpinian growers with whom it has a twenty-year friendship. The types of olive trees from which Contedoro extra virgin olive oil is produced are Marinese, Ogliarola, and Ravece. Only and exclusively from olive trees widespread in the Irpinia area.

All olives are processed within 24 to 48 hours after harvesting; this procedure allows the olives’ full aroma to be preserved and ensures an extraordinary product!

The Contedoro Team

Alfio Lo Conte

Contedoro Owner

Alfio is the point of reference for everyone working at Contedoro. Since childhood, he has nurtured a passion for olive milling and agriculture and, with Contedoro, he has turned it into his profession, which he carries on with great enthusiasm. Among other things, he is a certified first and second level Extra Virgin Olive Oil taster.

Antonella Miano

Chief Operating Officer

An irreplaceable figure for the company, Antonella is the backbone of all main activities. She works tirelessly to ensure everything is always in the right place at the right time — with organization and professionalism.

Andrea Guardabascio

Customer Support and Logistics

At Contedoro, Andrea handles everything from order processing to delivery. He assists customers with kindness and efficiency, ensuring that every shipment reaches its destination smoothly.

Ivan Rizzitelli

Lecturer, Agronomist, Certified Taster

Member of the technical committee of FOOI, the Italian Olive Oil Supply Chain, as an expert agronomist in the field. Virgin olive oil taster, registered in the Campania Region section of the National List of Technicians and Experts of Virgin and Extra Virgin Olive Oils, member of the official tasting panel for olive oil sensory analysis recognized by MiPAF, operating at the Chemical and Commodity Laboratory of the Naples Chamber of Commerce. Lecturer in courses for virgin olive oil tasters and training courses for olive growers. Author of scientific articles in conference proceedings and industry journals.

Francesco Castelluccio

Agronomist, Certified Taster

Founding member and board member of RURIS 2020, a professional cooperative providing services in the olive oil sector. Since 2012, he has been a technical consultant for the olive producers’ organization APOOAT SOC. COOP A.r.l., where he focuses on improving low environmental impact production techniques and enhancing the quality of olive oil. An expert virgin olive oil taster, he is involved in various training courses for olive growers, courses on the physiological aptitude for olive oil tasting, and training on PDO and PGI oils.

Farmer Friends, Our Suppliers

Our suppliers are not just those who bring us the harvest from their olive trees—or, as one might simply say, the ones we buy olives from. No.

They are first and foremost family friends, people with whom we have shared mutual respect and collaboration for decades. We know their land and visit it constantly. We know exactly how much care and love these men devote to their olive groves.
That is how we guarantee our customers a product identical to the one we put on our own tables, for our own families.

This is our mission: to ensure that everyone who trusts our Contedoro Extra Virgin Olive Oil receives a product that is genuine and healthy.

The faces below are Luigi Pascucci, Alfonso Daniele, and Alessandro Marinaccio — a few of our farmer friends.

As you can see, at Contedoro we quite literally put our face on it. Because we want you to always trust us.

Luigi Pascucci

Alfonso Daniele

Alessando Marinaccio

Company Mission

The company's goal is to revive the culture of good food, starting from the king of ingredients: extra virgin olive oil. In a world—especially online—where many sellers pass off adulterated oil as quality oil, Contedoro guarantees full traceability to anyone who wishes to visit the mill in person and see the product's quality firsthand.

Cold pressing, the only method used at Contedoro, ensures the preservation of aromatic and phenolic properties which find their highest expression of care for the product also later on, during the extra virgin olive oil’s storage process.

Oil Packaged in the Mill, Fresh All Year Round

After a strict process of selection, milling, and tasting, Contedoro oil is immediately packaged in the mill in tins and insulated bottles, then stored in the dark at controlled temperatures. This is why Contedoro oil is so highly appreciated, because no part of the extra virgin olive oil production is left to chance! All oil extraction processes are coordinated and supervised by agronomists and expert tasters.

The ultimate goal of Alfio, the owner, and the entire Contedoro company is customer satisfaction with an excellent, aromatic, healthy, and fragrant product that can bring to mind the cornerstone food of the elders of the past: essential, healthy, and natural.

Concorso Internazionale | AIPO D'argento 3 Gocce Qualità

Concorso Internazionale | Diploma di Gran Menzione

L'Oro D'Italia 2021 | 5 Gocce d'Oro

Olio Capitale | 1° Classificato Fruttato Intenso

Slow Food Editore Guida Agli Oli EVO | Grande Olio, 3 Olive

Concorso Internazionale | L'Orciolo d'Oro Diploma di Gran Menzione

Ex Olivis 2007-2010 | Primo Classificato e Diploma di Gran Menzione

Concorso Montiferru | Menzione D'Onore

Concorso Internazionale 4° Armonia | Diploma Gran Menzione

Extra Campania 2020 | 1° Classificato Fruttato Medio-Intenso

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