Cork Talk with Adrianna Catena
Adrianna Catena is a distinguished historian specialising in the expansion of the Spanish empire in the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as a partner in two wine projects: El...
Cork Talk with Felipe Müller
Felipe Müller’s dad has never drunk alcohol, but that didn’t stop his son studying viticulture and oenology. After a formative spell working alongside Marcelo Retamal at De Martino, he moved...
Cork Talk with Sam Caporn MW
Sam Caporn got into wine by accident at university when a friend of her twin sister suggested she run what amounted to a drinking club. Her subsequent career has included...
Cork Talk with Marco Ventrella
Marco Ventrella ran restaurants and nightclubs as a young man, but switched to a very successful career in wine in his late twenties. Now established at the KWV as one...
Cork Talk with Fernando Mora MW
Fernando Mora MW originally trained as a mechanical engineer, but decided he wanted to become a winemaker after visiting Rioja as a tourist. A passionate defender of old vines and...
Cork Talk with Bryan MacRobert
Bryan MacRobert grew up on a farm near Cape Town and always wanted to be a winemaker. Working for Eben Sadie in Priorat gave him the chance to travel to...
Cork Talk with Kate McIntyre
Kate McIntyre MW’s parents were pioneers in the cool climate of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, but her initial intention was to be a theatre director rather than join the family business....
Cork Talk with Christopher Cannan
Christopher Cannan has worked in the international wine business for more than 50 years, representing some of the greatest producers through his company Europvin as well as making his own...
Cork Talk with Alex Hunt
Master of Wine Alex Hunt is a published journalist and a prodigiously talented musician – his first love, he says – who has a very busy day job as purchasing...
Cork Talk with Charles Metcalfe
Charles Metcalfe is both a singer and a wine writer, someone who has combined the two jobs for more than 40 years. An expert on the wines of Spain and...
Cork Talk with Craig Wessels
Craig Wessels started his own media company after dropping out of university, but he’d always wanted to be a farmer. After a three-day winemaking course in Stellenbosch, he decided to...
Cork Talk with Vicky Torres
Vicky Torres didn’t produce wine until she was 35, but she’s certainly made up for it since. Her expressive, artisanal, wines – be they white, red, or sweet – are...