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Natural Born Wine
Natural Born Wine is a small company dedicated to distributing and celebrating delicious natural wines made with respect the environment.
Set up by Oli Hudson and Sam Rogg, Natural Born Wine is a small company dedicated to finding, importing, distributing and celebrating delicious natural wines made with respect for consumer health and the environment.
Natural Born Wine is fast becoming a house name across our businesses. Sam and Oli supply our Farm Shop’s wine, gave a live tasting at our virtual festival The Good Life At Home in 2020, and are coming to our festival in 2021.
Oli and Sam set up Natural Born Wine up in 2016, and they look for fully natural wines that reflect the people and places that made them. They sell a diverse range of handcrafted wines, mainly from Italy for now. Each bottle comes with its own story about the origins and celebrating the growers, not just for their tasty wines but for the environmental, ethical and holistic choices they've made in creating them.
If you have tried natural wine, or if you want to get into it, this is the place to start.
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Sandy Kenneway has around 25 years of experience in the world of quality drinks, from managing Scotland’s largest wine shop to helping with the opening of Harvey Nichols in Edinburgh and striking out with his own businesses 10 years ago.
Karen O’Donoghue
Karen is an activist for fibre, and founder of The Happy Tummy Co.
Karen is “an activist for fibre” and founder of Happy Tummy Co.
Not only is Karen one of the nicest people we know, but she is always up for helping someone in need of some tummy advice. Karen has founded the Happy Tummy Co, whose ethos is built around how to use food as both preventative and prescriptive medicine.
Karen has run workshops at our festival The Good Life Experience, and has spoken on panels too.
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Olia Hercules
Ukrainian chef, author, food writer and food stylist.
Ukrainian chef, author, food writer and food stylist.
Ukrainian chef, author, food writer and food stylist. Olia began as a chef after completing a course at Leith's School of Food and Wine in 2010, and ensures her heritage runs through everything she does. Olia has spoken and cooked at our festival The Good Life Experience for several years.
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Tom Hunt
Award-winning chef, restaurant owner, climate change activist, and author.
Award-winning chef, restaurant owner, activist, and author. Tom has been to our festival The Good Life Experience many times, and continues to inspire us.
Tom Hunt is an award-winning chef, restaurant owner, climate change activist and author of the new book Eating for Pleasure, People & Planet. Tom prioritises people and the environment within his work and believes in a world with a fair global food system where our actions benefit other people and nature.
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Alissa Timoshkina
Food writer, chef, author of Salt and Time and founder of Kino Vino, a cinema and supper club series.
Food writer, chef, author of Salt and Time and founder of Kino Vino, a cinema and supper club series.
Alissa Timoshkina's career in food started from a different path. After completing her PhD in film studies, Alissa Timoskina founded Kino Vino, a supper club where guests watch a film chosen by Alissa and eat a dinner (often cooked by an esteemed chef) inspired by it. Kino Vino has established a reputation as one of London's most orginal projects. Alissia is the author of Salt & Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen a beautiful book that transforms perceptions of Serbian foods.
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