Two friends. One obsession.
Marko's wine world lives in Italy. Simo and Eda run everything from Haarlem. Italy is where the wine comes from. Haarlem is where it ends up.
Drink like a king, spend like a farmer.
Corkin is a small Italian wine shop run by three people: Marko, Simo and Eda.
We bring Italian wines to the Netherlands for private customers and horeca. Not every Italian wine. Only the ones we love, drink ourselves and would happily put on our own table.
Marko is the one on the road. His wine world is made of producers, cellars, vineyards, back roads and long tables. He visits, tastes, listens and spends time with the people behind the bottles. Some of them have become friends over the years.
That is where Corkin starts. Not from a catalogue, but from people we know, places we have seen and wines that stayed with us.
In Haarlem, Simo and Eda take care of the rest. Simo handles orders, deliveries, customer messages and all the small things that happen behind the scenes. Eda takes care of the creative side: the Felì label, the look of Corkin, the words, the details.
We love this work. The driving, the tasting, the packing, the talking, the little problems that need solving. It is not always romantic, but it is ours.
Between Italy and Haarlem, between the road and the shop, Corkin is built by the three of us.
“Buying a €1000 bottle and calling it great is easy. You just need money. Finding a €20 bottle that surprises everyone at the table, that's the real game.”
We work only with Italian producers because Marko knows Italy better than anywhere else. It's endlessly varied, deeply regional, and still full of small artisanal producers making extraordinary things that never reach the big importers. We'd rather do one thing properly than many things passably.
No warehouse logic, no algorithm, no chatbot. When you message us, you get Simo or Marko.
The practical stuff.
Real people
We clean up after ourselves.
Every order has a carbon footprint. We know that. Through Shopify Planet, a portion of every sale goes to carbon removal companies vetted by scientists. It won't fix everything, but it's the right direction.