Frank Cornelissen

Cantina e Vini

Our farming philosophy is based on our acceptance of the fact that man will never be able to understand nature’s full complexity and interactions. We therefore choose to concentrate on observing and learning the movements of Mother Earth in her various energetic and cosmic passages and prefer to follow her indications as to what to do, instead of deciding and imposing ourselves. Consequently this has taken us to possibly avoiding all treatments on the land we cultivate, wether homeopathic, organic or biodynamic. Accepting and following nature is our guideline as the divine ability to understand the ‘Whole’ was obviously not given to man as we are only a part of this complex and not God himself.

A growing concern in the quality wine industry is the increasing possibility for counterfeit bottles, especially for the very limited and exclusive production of top wines. In 2014 we started researching the different possibilities and we liked the bubble tag system. The cost and difficulty for applying these tags to the bottle has kept us looking for other solutions, until we stumbled over the RFID (radio frequency identification) which I liked very much as it gives other possibilities like absolute/individual traceability of single bottles, warehouse management, temperature information during transportation, etc… As of the vintage 2016, our Grand Vin Magma® to start with will have an NFC chip integrated into the label of each bottle which will initially carry basic information regarding the authenticity of the wine. As technology evolves, we will add more useful information like name of the wine, vintage, bottle date, number of bottles produced of this wine, etc… The use of this unique product authentication system will guarantee that you are buying an original bottle and at the same time receive useful information about the wine.