Frank Cornelissen

Frank Cornelissen is one of the few natural winemakers whose bottles are chased by people who do not otherwise drink natural wine. His high-altitude Etna wines have gone from obscure to sought after in about a decade, with several cuvées and back vintages now trading at serious money.

He grew up in Belgium among gourmands and collectors, became a collector himself, then an importer specializing in rare and esoteric Bordeaux and Burgundy. A trip to Georgia in the 1990s rearranged his sense of what wine could be, and he arrived on Mount Etna with a plainly stated natural-wine vision before the mountain became the coveted terroir it is today. He found old vineyards that local farmers were using mostly for bulk wine.

Completely self-taught, he studied and experimented for years before the first officially bottled vintage in 2001. His farming philosophy starts from the position that people will never understand the full complexity of nature, so the sensible response is to interfere as little as possible.

More on how they farm and work in the cellar in our Frank Cornelissen producer profile.

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