A talk-tasting featuring Frank Cornelissen in conversation with David Harvey (Raeburn Fine Wines).

Frank Cornelissen remains one of the most (in-)famous wine producers in the world, one of the first to bridge the natural and the fine wine worlds. Many - even in the conventional wine world - know him for his Susucaru range, the wine that broke wine-searcher.com in 2016. Yet Frank has also made single vineyard, aka cru wines since 2001, which he has steadily been expanding since 2010. By 2018, 7 sites were bottled. Why make them? What's the difference between Susucaru & Munjebel cru series? What does Frank think about SO2? We will taste wines which illustrate these questions.

David Harvey of Raeburn Fine Wines will co-host. David worked for Frank on Etna in 2004, where he coined the term 'orange wine' just as the early versions of the renaissant genre were hitting the market. Since then he has written a column for The World of Fine Wine, contributed to The Oxford Companion to Wine (4th & 5th Editions). He publishes a timelines of ethical wine, which includes the history of certification, publication and cooperation in the natural-organic-biodynamic spectrum. He is on the advisory panel for the Sustainable Wine Forum. For David, natural-spectrum producers must have the potential to deal with the technical challenges of bottling low/no sulphite wines with quality & consistency.

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Simon J Woolf and Ryan Opaz, authors of the New York Times best wine book 2021 "Foot Trodden - Portugal and the Wines that Time Forgot", take you on a journey across Portugal, with six wines made by ancestral winemaking methods and sourced from extraordinary vineyards. You'll taste wines made from 100 year old vines, and made in clay pots (talhas) that are around 200 years old. But these are not museum pieces - they are living traditions. Portugal combines a strong heritage with a fast developing artisanal wine scene. Increasingly, Portugal's growers understand that the way to express these beautiful assets is to practice the minimum possible intervention in the cellar, and to work with respect in the vineyards.

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A talk-tasting journey with Michael Sager (of Sager + Wilde) and Carina Soto Velasquez (of Candelaria in Paris) who together created El Destilado. Discover and taste through some of these incredible which Carina and Michael source directly from small, independent growers and producers in Mexico. Learn why terroir in spirits can and should matter, and understand the salient similarities between natural wine and agave spirits.

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