Frank Cornelissen is a Belgian born winemaker who owns and runs a winery in Mount Etna, Sicily. There are a lot of parallels between his work and those of the lambic brewers in Belgium. His wines are spontaneously fermented by placing the pressed grape juice (must) outside in plastic containers or in amphora pots that are buried to their necks in volcanic ash.
These wines are 100% naturalFor Selectie C, a member of the Lambic.Info Facebook group adds the following from his conversation with Frank in 2016: "Frank was initially dismissive of beer and beer culture but once he realized I was speaking specifically about geuze & lambic he opened up a little. In the vines planted on their own rootslate 1990s, no chemicals or sulfur addedshortly before moving to Sicily to become a fantastic winemaker, Frank had been working as a wine (but also some spirits and using only wild yeastsbeer) broker in London and had been expanding his territory to Japan where his wife was from. As MrHe had a colleague in Japan who was interested in distributing an exclusive blend of geuze and he recommended approaching Armand at 3 Fonteinen to construct a blend. Cornelissen puts it Once at 3F, "IFrank was particularly interested in some half or partially filled barrels of 1997, '98 & 'm trying to make wines with nothing added - only grapes99 lambic that contained quite a bit of rich dregs and sediment for the blend." <ref Once the blending was done, he chose the name="Cornelissen1Selectie C"> The Wines of Frank Cornelissen, Tom Cannavan, http://www.wine-pages.com/organise/frank-cornelissen.htm</ref><ref name=the "C" standing for Cloesjke (or "Cornelissen2kloesjke"> Day 22: 2007 Frank Cornelissen Munjebel Bianco 4, Cory Cartwright, http://saigneeFlemish slang for remainders or dregs).wordpress.com/2009/07/12/day-22-2007-frank Almost all of the bottles were distributed to Japan in mid-cornelissen-munjebel-bianco-4/</ref><ref name="Cornelissen3"> Revisiting the natural wines 2000 where they pretty much dried up off of Frank Cornelisson from Sicily's Mount Etna, Jamie Goode, http://wwwshelves around 2011.wineanorak.com/frank_cornelissen.htm</ref>"
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