Cork Talk with Margaret Rand
The daughter of a vet and an author, Margaret Rand started her life in publishing, but moved into wine after meeting Serena Sutcliffe MW. After spells editing various magazines, including...
Cork Talk with Noelia Orts
Noelia Orts was born and brought up in Benidorm, but after studying viticulture and oenology and Spain, and an overseas harvest in New Zealand, moved to Chile in 2009, where...
Cork Talk with Guy Woodward
Guy Woodward has spent his working life as a journalist, writing about food, travel, sport and even casinos before turning his attention to wine when he moved to Decanter magazine....
Cork Talk with Cristina Mercuri MW
Cristina Mercuri had a successful career as an international lawyer in Milan but gave it all up to study and create a second career in wine, becoming Italy’s first female...
Cork Talk with Dr Peter Stanbury
Dr Peter Stanbury has spent most of his working life in international development, advising multinationals and intergovernmental organisations, sometimes in some distinctly scary places. He is now the research director...
Cork Talk with Sandra Tavares
A former professional volleyball player and fashion model, Sandra Tavares fell in love with the wine world at a young age, treading grapes at her grandfather’s wine estate near Lisbon....
Cork Talk with Victoria Mason
Victoria Mason was working as a plant buyer at Waitrose when she heard about a vacancy in the wine department. She got the job and has never looked back. A...
Cork Talk with José Vouillamoz
José Vouillamoz is a botanist, ampelographer and grape geneticist who has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the past, present and future of wine. Co-author of the monumental Wine...
Cork Talk with Beth Willard
Cricket-mad Beth Willard’s journey in wine started with a part-time job at Hardy’s Cellar Door operation in Canberra. Since then, she’s lived in France, the United Kingdom and Spain, where...
Cork Talk with Katia Nussbaum
Katia Nussbaum was born in London, but has lived most of her life in Italy, where she and her partner Gigi have owned the highly regarded San Polino estate in...
Cork Talk with Xavier Rousset
Xavier Rousset fell in love with wine on a family holiday in Collioure. After writing to fellow Frenchman Gérard Basset, one of the world’s most famous sommeliers, he got a...
Cork Talk with Luke O’Cuinneagain
Luke O’Cuinneagain grew up close to the vineyards of nearby  the Constantia Valley, but originally wanted to be a vet rather than a winemaker. A weekend job working at a...