Claudia has an inborn curiosity for all sights, sounds, tastes and cultures. Drawn to natural wine since early 1990, this was and remains for her a geniune, authentic expression of all the above. Yes, she did venture into her own natural winemaking - in a family vineyard in Sicily in early 2000, which she still sorely misses. After a beginning as an importer in Switzerland, she moved her activities first to Munich, now to Berlin. She is very concerned about the future of natural wine in the face of climate change and will set a focus on this in the future activities of "Origine Natural Wines" in Berlin.

Mario was born in Rome and has, much like Claudia, spent much of his life exploring. At first in extensive travels, later in adventures into the culinary world, where he had his own import and distribution company in Italy before chosing to move to Munich, where he woked in the legendary "Sarfati" before moving on, meeting and working with Claudia Sontheim and Manina Liepert at "Orgine Kiosque". He now lives in Berlin, where he works with Claudia at "Origine Natural Wines".