The Tim Atkin Cork Talk Podcast
Episodes
Cork Talk with Jancis Robinson
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jancis Robinson is the world’s leading wine writer, acknowledged as such by consumers, the wine industry and her peers. She has a weekly column in t...
Cork Talk with Katharina Prüm
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Prüms are one of the oldest wine families in Germany’s picturesque Middle Mosel region. The family business, J.J. Prüm, is now run by Katharin...
Cork Talk with François Lurton
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part of an extensive, wine-focused family known in Bordeaux as “les Lurtons du vin”, François Lurton runs a successful global business that has e...
CorkTalk with Piero Incisa della Rocchetta
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Born into a famous winemaking family in Tuscany, Piero Incisa della Rocchetta had a brief spell as a banker in Geneva, before he dedicated himself to ...
Cork Talk with Piero Mastroberardino
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Poet, novelist, academic and tenth generation winery owner, Piero Mastroberardino is a modern-day Renaissance man. Passionate about the wines of his n...
Cork Talk with Tony Laithwaite
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Laithwaite fell in love with wine in the Côtes de Castillon, where he’d gone to work as a holiday intern before university. Spotting a gap in ...
Cork Talk with Dominik Huber
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The locals laughed when Dominik Huber made his first wines at Terroir al Límit in Priorat, but he’s proved them all wrong. Born in Germany, it was ...
Cork Talk with Sara Danese
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Danese is a financial consultant and investment analysis, who uses her experience and expertise to write about the fine wine world in her spare t...
Cork Talk with Robert Joseph
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Joseph was one of the key figures in what he likes to call the “summer of love” for wine in the late 1980s, setting up Wine Magazine and th...
Cork Talk with Niki Segnit
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Niki Segnit is an expert on flavour, having written two best-selling books about the subject. I caught up with her before she jumped on a plane to And...
Cork Talk with Anthony Hamilton Russell
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Anthony Hamilton Russell gave up a job as a management consultant to return to the family wine farm in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, his London sala...
Cork Talk with Jesús Barquín
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A passionate Andalusian and Professor of Law at Granada University, Jesús Barquín is also one of the key figures in the modern Sherry revolution. Eq...
Cork Talk with Adrian Bridge
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian Bridge had two careers – in the military and banking – before he joined the wine business in 1994. Now CEO of the Fladgate Partnership, he’...
Cork Talk with Professor Alex Maltman
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author of Vineyards, Rocks & Soils, Professor Alex Maltman is an acknowledged expert on wine geology. I caught up with him from his home in Aberys...
Cork Talk with Brian Moore
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Moore, known as pit bull during his time playing rugby for England and the British and Irish Lions, was always a sportsman with a hinterland. Ou...
Cork Talk with Fernando Maíllo
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fernando Maíllo works in fine pata negra ham as well as wine – lucky man – and has been one of the key figures behind the emergence of the Sierra...
Cork Talk with Grant Ashton
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a 30 year career in banking, Grant Ashton turned his passion for wine into a business, setting up the wine-focused members’ club, 67 Pall Mall...
Cork Talk with Sean Willard
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Willard engineers menus and wine lists for a living. It’s a fascinating job that involves economics, science, art, psychology – and plenty of...
Cork Talk with Alessio Planeta
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alessio Planeta is the seventeenth generation of his family to make wine in Sicily. As you’d expect, he’s a man with a passionate interest in the ...
Cork Talk with Pascal Chatonnet
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pascal Chatonnet has not one, but two wine-related PhDs. After a 17-year stint as an academic at Bordeaux University, he switched careers to become a ...
Cork Talk with Hendrik Thoma
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hendrik Thoma trained as a chef, but fell in love with wine when he was working at a restaurant in the Napa Valley. It was a decision which led to a v...
Cork Talk with Ginny Povall
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ginny Poval had a successful career as an insurance industry executive before she bought a flower farm called Protea Heights in South Africa that chan...
Cork Talk with Rosamund Barton
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A chance meeting with the great Steven Spurrier in Paris convinced Rosamund Barton that she wanted to work in wine. After spells as a buyer and a news...
Cork Talk with Larry Cherubino
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Larry Cherubino can’t seem to stop winning awards at the moment. He’s flying all over the world to collect them, so I was lucky to track him down ...