Cork Talk with Natalie Christensen
Natalie Christensen of Yealands originally wanted to compose film scores or be a music therapist, but after what she calls a “quarter-life crisis” in HR, she got a harvest job...
Cork Talk with Wojciech Bońkowski MW
Wojciech Bońkowski is Poland’s first Master of Wine and something of a polymath who speaks five languages and has a PhD in musicology. I caught up with him to about...
Cork Talk with Jon Bonné
Jon Bonné started out as news journalist, writing about politics and the airline industry before falling in love with wine, where he made his name covering the California wine industry...
Cork Talk with Steve Webber
Steve Webber may have earned his winemaking stripes at Leo Buring and Lindemans, but he’s best known for what he’s achieved with De Bortoli in the Yarra Valley over the...
Cork Talk with Maxence Dulou
Born and brought up in Bordeaux’s Entre Deux Mers regions, Maxence Dulou got the travel bug after university, working in Chile and South Africa. But neither compared with the challenges...
Cork Talk with Antonio Capaldo
Antonio Capaldo worked in finance and management consultancy – what he calls “the dark side” – before returning to take over the family wine estate, Feudi di San Gregorio, in...
Cork Talk with Amanda Barnes
Falling in love with the writing of Jorge Luis Bórges and Gabriel Gárcia Márquez inspired Amanda Barnes to move to Argentina in her early twenties, where she’s lived ever since....
Cork Talk with Charlie Foley
Charlie Foley got interested in wine when he was studying classics at university. After spells in South Africa and Argentina, he landed a job at Christie’s where he’s gone on...
Cork Talk with Gavin Quinney
Gavin Quinney started his working life as a porter at an auction house before moving into the computer industry in the mid-1980s. A visit to Bordeaux in 1999 persuaded him...
Cork Talk with Gordon Newton Johnson
After a degree in economics, Gordon Newton Johnson decided he didn’t want to go to work in a suit and tie. Instead he joined a new wine business that his...
Cork Talk with Duncan Forsyth
By his own admission, Duncan Forsyth spent a lot of his twenties travelling, skiing and partying. A chance attendance at a wine tasting back in Queenstown inspired him to get...
Cork Talk with Jason Haas
Jason Haas studied archaeology at university and worked in the tech industry for four years before joining the family winery, Tablas Creek, in Paso Robles in 2002. Since then, he’s...