Teachers Of TAOS

Learn from the bartenders shaping the modern bar world.

TAOS is taught by bartenders whose work has influenced some of the most respected bars in the world. Learn the thinking, technique and creative standards behind professional hospitality from teachers who have lived it at the highest level.

Simone Caporale
Simone Caporale
Giacomo Giannotti
Giacomo Giannotti
Mastery Experience Behind Every Lesson

Learn from two world-renowned bartenders whose careers have helped define modern cocktail culture

Vision Creativity With Clear Purpose

Their teaching combines imagination, technique and intention to help bartenders create with greater confidence.

Influence Shaping Modern Bartending

Together, they bring global experience, recognised expertise and a shared commitment to moving the industry forward.

Insight Learn How The Experts Think

Go beyond recipes and discover the decisions, discipline and creative process behind exceptional bar work.

Built On Real Experience

Learn the thinking behind world class bartending

The right guidance changes more than technique. It helps bartenders understand how great drinks are developed, how stronger decisions are made and how creativity becomes something repeatable. Through experience earned at the highest level, the teachers bring clarity, discipline and perspective to every lesson.

Creative precision from one of modern bartending’s most respected names.

Simone Caporale

Creative precision from one of modern bartending’s most respected names.

Simone Caporale is known for creativity, precision and hospitality first thinking. His teaching helps bartenders understand how world-class drinks are built, how technique becomes more controlled and how creativity can be turned into a professional process.

Teaching Strength

Technique, creative foundations and professional confidence.

Best For

Bartenders who want stronger foundations and clearer creative control.

What Simone Teaches

The foundations behind better technique, creativity and guest experience.

Technique

Cleaner technical control.

Understand the details that make execution more consistent behind the bar.

Creativity

A stronger creative process.

Learn how original ideas can be developed with structure, intention and confidence.

Hospitality

Think beyond the drink.

Understand how service, guest experience and presentation shape the final serve.

Standards

Build professional judgement.

Develop the decision-making that helps bartenders move from doing to understanding.

Paradiso-level thinking for concept, flavour and experience.

Giacomo Giannotti

Paradiso-level thinking for concept, flavour and experience.

Giacomo Giannotti brings the creative world of Paradiso into the TAOS platform. His teaching focuses on storytelling, sustainability, flavour development and the thinking that turns drinks into memorable experiences.

Teaching Strength

Concept development, sustainability and menu thinking.

Best For

Bartenders ready for advanced creativity and experience-led drink design.

What Giacomo Teaches

Advanced concept, sustainability, menu thinking and guest experience.

Concept

Build drinks with a stronger idea.

Learn how a drink can carry story, purpose and a clearer creative direction.

Sustainability

Create with more responsibility.

Use sustainability as part of the creative process, not an afterthought.

Flavour

Shape flavour with intention.

Understand how ingredient decisions support the concept and final guest experience.

Menu Thinking

Think like a menu creator.

Learn how individual drinks connect into a wider bar identity and menu structure.

Different Perspectives

The Right expertise at every stage

Each teacher brings a distinct approach, giving bartenders access to the techniques, creative thinking and professional insight they need to progress. Together, their experience creates a more complete learning journey, with guidance that supports every stage of development.

Foundations & Precision

Ideas with Control

Build technique, creative foundations, confidence and the discipline behind professional bar work.

Advanced Creativity

Expert level thinking

Explore storytelling, sustainability, concept development and Paradiso-style creative thinking.

Complete Path

Follow both teachers.

Use the full TAOS pathway to connect foundations, technique, menu thinking and advanced drink development.

Combined Expertise

A Complete Approach

Together, they bring the balance of creativity, hospitality and precision needed to develop stronger bartenders.

From Beginner To Pro

TAOS turns elite bar knowledge into lessons bartenders can actually follow.

The teachers bring experience earned at the highest level, while the platform turns that expertise into clear, practical learning. Every lesson helps bartenders understand the thinking and method behind the result, so they can apply the knowledge with confidence rather than simply recreate a finished serve

Teaching Value

Learn the decisions behind world-class bartending.

Technique, flavour, service, menu thinking and creativity become easier to improve when the process is explained by people who use it at the highest level.

Explain

Understand the why.

Lessons focus on the thinking behind technique, not only the finished action.

Apply

Use it behind the bar.

The teaching connects to real service, real creativity and practical professional standards.

Progress

Keep building.

The pathway helps bartenders move from foundations into advanced creative judgement.

Access

Learn from anywhere.

TAOS makes world-class teacher knowledge easier to access online.

TAOS Course Pathway

Learn from the teachers across the full TAOS education.

Each course gives students access to a different part of the teachers’ skillset, from foundational technique to advanced concept and menu development.

Series I

Creative foundations.

Start with Simone and build the foundations of technique, creativity and professional thinking.

Series II

Technique and confidence.

Strengthen control, consistency and your ability to perform with more purpose.

Series III

Paradiso Edition.

Learn from Giacomo through sustainability, story and advanced creative development.

Series V

Advanced menu thinking.

Move deeper into Paradiso’s approach to menu development and drink creation.

Learn From The Best

Learn from teachers at the highest level.