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A Family History

1800

The family's interest in agriculture, with particular focus on olives and almonds, started in the mid-1800s with Vito Volpe, in Valenzano (BA).
It continued with his son Domenico Volpe, who died, young, in Africa in 1936, leaving six daughters, at a very young age.

1900

The war and the events that followed, overwhelmed everyone's destinies, but it was their daughter Anna who inherited the passion for olives and oil.
Anna Volpe, after marrying Carabinieri Major Marshal Giangiuseppe D'Alessandro and following him to his assigned destinations, found herself in Rotello (CB) and fell in love with those rolling hills.
In 1957, he bought the first olive grove, soon after a building, in which he planted an oil mill and then went on to other olive groves.
New olive groves were planted alongside the centuries-old trees in the 1960s.
Anna Volpe, who passed away prematurely, was succeeded by her daughter Anna Maria D'Alessandro, who, with the essential collaboration of her husband Giovanni Mancini, is still carrying on the Company, increasing it even further.

2000

Their sons Nicola and Giangiuseppe have always been very interested in the company.
Giangiuseppe, a classically trained musician, studied violin and viola and pursued academic studies in musicology and orchestra conducting, emphasising, with the names given to our oils, the close link between music and oil like that which unites the two brothers.
Now, the baton is taken over by their son Nicola Mancini who, after graduating in Law and specialising at the "Alma Mater Studiorum" of Bologna in Organic Food Law, decides to dedicate himself to the family company with love and passion, the fifth generation.