The People · Page 116
The artisans of taste.
Winemaker
Toni Coca
La Vilella Alta, Spain
## Coming Up The Coca i Fitó family name carries a farming line in Alt Penedès, and Toni Coca’s work grows out of that base. The governing idea is plain: wine belongs to life, not…
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Winemaker
Toni Coca i Fitó
La Vilella Alta, Spain
## Coming Up Training at Camp Joliu Agricultural School, Arboç del Penedès and the School of Oenology in Falset gave Toni Coca i Fitó the two languages this trade demands: farm…
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Winemaker
Toni Sarrión
El Terrerazo Utiel, Spain
## The Essentials The clearest read on Toni Sarri’s work comes through the wines themselves: Viñas Viejas, Mestizaje blanco 2022, and Pela Roques white 2022. Those bottles point…
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Winemaker
Tonino Guzzo
Gela, Italy
Tonino Guzzo is the winemaker at Casa Grazia in Gela, and that role defines the work more than any biographical flourish. In wine, identity is built through seasons, fruit, cellar…
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Tony Cervone
San Francisco, California, United States
Tony Cervone is chef and partner at Souvla in San Francisco, United States. His work is shaped by a clear service ethic: bring Greek hospitality to the table, and leave people…
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Winemaker
Tony Fink
Montemiletto, Italy
Tony Fink is owner and producer at Donna Elvira in Campania, Italy, and the work has stayed fixed on Aglianico wine. The cross-border life around that cellar shows up in the way…
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Chef
Tony Gutierrez
Highlands, North Carolina, United States
His résumé links kitchen leadership with restaurant management across two named American hospitality markets. It is a career built on steady command, where the demands of the line…
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Chef
Tony He
Richmond, Canada
Tony He, Executive Chef Tony Seafood Restaurant in Richmond, Canada, works inside a Cantonese seafood register built on steam, seasonality, and measured handling. Dim sum timing,…
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Chef
Tony Hu
Chicago, Illinois, United States
The momentum is direct: study the cuisine, then open Lao Sze Chuan and put Traditional Sichuan flavors at the center of the room. ## The Path Technique and regional identity came…
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Chef
Tony J. Nguyen
Houston, Texas, United States
Tony J. ## The Climb At Xin Chào in Houston, Texas, co-founder and chef Tony J. Nguyen helped define the restaurant’s identity through 2024. The work sat in the balance between…
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Chef
Tony Leung
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Since 2023, Tony Leung has been head chef at Salisterra in Hong Kong. The role follows an Executive Sous Chef title and gives him a clear place in the city’s restaurant scene,…
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Chef
Tony Luke Jr.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Tony Luke Jr. ## The Path St. Nicholas of Tolentine is the early line in the record, the kind of schooling that sits behind later work without announcing itself. From there, Tony…
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Chef
Tony Najiola
Petaluma, California, United States
In Petaluma, California, Central Market reads as a kitchen that knows what it is: fresh, local food, plainly served, with enough control to make the basics register more sharply.…
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Tony Velazquez
Washington DC, Washington DC, United States
## The Path Coffee and pastry counters run on repetition, but they also reveal who can keep pace when the room turns. Tony Velazquez first built his standing as co-owner at Zap in…
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Tony Yu
Seoul, South Korea
Its name points to the five senses, and that naming choice gives a clear read on the kitchen logic behind Tony Yu: food meant to register plainly, stay memorable, and arrive with…
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Toshi Kataoka
Los Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles is where Toshi Kataoka has made a concentrated case for sushi and omakase. At Echigo, the work is narrow by design: traditional sushi, minimal intervention, and an…
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Pastry Chef
Toshi Yoroizuka
Odawara, Japan
Owner and Pastry Chef of Toshi Yoroizuka in Tokyo, Japan, Toshi Yoroizuka works in a register where immediacy matters: desserts finished fresh, chocolate handled as material with…
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Chef
Toshiaki Toyoshima
Los Angeles, California, United States
In Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, Sushi Gen stands as a fixed point for Japanese-style craft: traditional sushi, authentic nigiri sushi, and the kind of freshness and restraint that…
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Toshihiro Kobayasahi
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
## Coming Up A single kitchen can define a career when the work inside it holds. At Bernini Honolulu, HI, Toshihiro Kobayasahi moved from Head Chef to Owner/Chef, a shift from…
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Toshihiro Uezu
New York City, New York, United States
A Tokyo apprenticeship gave Toshihiro Uezu a working base in the discipline of sushi: repetition, timing, and the expectation that each motion would be exact. That grounding,…
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Chef
Toshio Fukumoto
Tokyo, Japan
Toshio Fukumoto’s Sushi Fukumoto in Tokyo, Japan is built as much through conversation as through knife work and timing. The counter service does not isolate the fish from its…
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Toshiya Umeda
Los Angeles, California, United States
Toshiya Umeda has been Executive/Master Chef at Miyabi Uni in Torrance, California, since 2017. The work reads as a long apprenticeship put to use: patience in the line,…
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Toshiyuki Nakagawa
Fukuoka, Japan
Toshiyuki Nakagawa is the owner-chef of Chakaiseki Nakahan in Fukuoka. The work centers on the daily facts of the restaurant: service, timing, and cooking held together under one…
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Chef
Travis Lett
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Climb At Gjelina in Venice, California, the founding chef role that Travis Lett held from 2008–2019 established the line most people still use to read his work: a kitchen…
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Winemaker
Tremayne Smith
Tulbagh, South Africa
Head winemaking at Fable Mountain Vineyards in Tulbagh, South Africa, is framed here by accumulation rather than spectacle. Tremayne Smith arrived there after a sequence of cellar…
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Winemaker
Trent Burge
Sa Tanunda, Australia
Trent Burge founded Barossa Boy Wines in Tanunda, South Australia, placing the label inside the Barossa rather than simply borrowing its name. The work is framed by a region with…
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Chef
Trenton Garvey
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
## The Path Line work is built on heat, timing, pressure, and the discipline of keeping service controlled while it stays alive. Early in that progression, Trenton Garvey served…
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Chef
Trifón Jorge Esteban
Madrid, Spain
La hostelería de barra, comedor y casa familiar fue la primera escuela de Trifón Jorge Esteban. ## The Climb La barra enseñaba tanto como la cocina, porque obligaba a escuchar,…
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Relais & Châteaux Grand Chef
Trisha Perez Kennealy
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
## The Path Business training and culinary schooling sit at the center of Trisha Perez Kennealy’s work, and the two disciplines show up clearly in how Inn at Hastings Park is run.…
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Chef
Tristan Chalker
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
"The restaurant business is all I have ever known." ## The Path The prep line was where Tristan Chalker’s discipline first took shape, beginning in a friend’s bakery and then at…
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Trong Nguyen
Houston, Texas, United States
## The Path Before food, the craft was presentation and pacing. As director of marketing in the casino industry, Trong Nguyen worked in a setting where timing, attention, and…
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Chef
Troy Jorge
Chicago, Illinois, United States
## Training and Lineage Luxury-hotel kitchens train repetition before expression: prep measured early, timing checked constantly, refinement built before service. Troy Jorge…
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Chef
Troy MacLarty
Portland, Oregon, United States
In Portland, the work at Bollywood Theater is built from texture, heat, and recognizable form. Troy MacLarty’s kitchen language stays close to ingredients and process: asparagus…
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Tsutomu Hasegawa
Kyoto, Japan
## The Path Today, Tsutomu Hasegawa is chef of Ahbon. The title sits on a daily practice built from repetition, timing, and control: the work of holding a kitchen steady so…
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Tsuyoshi Kawano
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Path The career is organized around one address: Tsuyoshi Kawano is chef of Go's Mart, and that role defines the restaurant’s daily pace as much as its identity. The…
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Chef
Tuca Mezzomo
São Paulo, Brazil
## Career - **Chef and owner** — Charco, São Paulo, Brazil (2019–present) - **Executive chef** — Charco, São Paulo, Brazil ## The Climb Since 2019, Charco in São Paulo has been…
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Tuyet Ngna Bui
Patiala, India
Former psychologist Tuyet Ngna Bui is originally from Hanoi, and that background reads less as biography than as method: attention, discipline, and a practiced read on people…
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Hotelier
Ty Warner
New York City, New York, United States
## Formation Plush-toy merchandising depends on material cue, scale, character, and repeat purchase behavior as much as on manufacturing. Born in 1944, Ty Warner is associated…
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Chef
Tyler Florence
San Francisco, California, United States
Tyler Florence runs Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco, United States, where the kitchen turns out American dishes drawn from local cuisine at the turn of the 20th century. The…
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Chef
Tyler Hanse
Berlin, Germany
## Coming Up From there, the work moved into his own hands at Bardele, where Tyler is chef and owner, and the line between training and authorship is visible in the way the…
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Chef
Tyler Malek
Portland, Oregon, United States
His work sits inside the daily cadence of an ice cream kitchen: “We start our kitchen at 6:30, so I’m just up and at ‘em.” In Tyler Malek’s case, the craft is less about…
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Tyler Wilson
Los Angeles, California, United States
Tyler Wilson’s profile is built on a short, readable sequence: University of Southern California, leaving school, then the 2008 opening of the first Wurstküche location in the…
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Chef
Tzurit Or
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Tzurit Or’s bakery work sits on a line that starts in a kibbutz kitchen, where a mother who was the master baker set the standard for what bread and pastry could demand. Before…
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Chef
Ugo Federico
Brussels, Belgium
Ugo Federico is chef and owner of Racines in Brussels, Belgium. The work sits in a register of quiet control: a restaurant identity built on repetition, judgment, and consistency…
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Winemaker
Ugo Lequio
Neive, Italy
Ugo Lequio’s work reads as continuity: since 1981, the same estate, the same seat in the cellar, the same address in Neive, CN, Italy. In winemaking, that kind of duration…
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Chef
Úlfar Eysteinsson
Reykjavík, Iceland
Úlfar Eysteinsson’s professional story is one address in Reykjavík, where he spent the long arc of his career shaping the character of 3 Frakkar, also known as Þrír Frakkar. From…
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Michelin-starred chef
Ultan Cooke
London, United Kingdom
He carried kitchen discipline from London back to the west of Ireland, where family reasons brought him home. The through-line in Ultan Cooke’s work is movement: training,…
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Chef
Umber Ahmad
New York City, New York, United States
The bakery is known for nostalgic desserts, breads, and pastries, built as a direct extension of a career that moved through finance, education, and entrepreneurship with the same…
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Winemaker
Umberto Bera
Neviglie, Italy
Umberto Bera is the winemaker at Bera in Neviglie, Italy, and that role gives its shape. The work is anchored in one producer and one place, which is often how winemaking is best…
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Chef
Urs Blättler
Zürich, Switzerland
In Zurich’s classic tavern register, the work is measured in heat control, pan discipline, and portioning that respects appetite. At Zeughauskeller, the kitchen led by Urs…
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Winemaker
Urs Fischbacher
Mullheim Dorf, Switzerland
Urs Fischbacher works as chef at Fischbach Weine, and the role puts the kitchen at the center of his public profile. The house, the title, and the name are doing the work here;…
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Chef
Urs Gschwend
Basel, Switzerland
The apprenticeship-to-hotel-kitchen line is a practical trade inheritance: station discipline, timing, heat control, and product handling before the plate leaves the pass. In Urs…
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Winemaker
Ursula Schwarzenbach
Nelson, New Zealand
Owner and Marketing Manager at Blackenbrook Vineyard in Nelson, Ursula Schwarzenbach is the Swiss name attached to the estate’s identity, public voice, and measured approach in…
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Winemaker, Domaine Jobard-Morey
Valentin Jobard
Meursault, France
Parcel work in Meursault frames Valentin Jobard's current role at Domaine Jobard-Morey in France, where he has operated the estate with Remi Ehret since taking over in 2013 (with…
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Winemaker
Valentin Oppenauer
Poysdorf, Austria
## The Path Organic winegrowing is the frame here: Valentin Oppenauer’s work at BIO-Weingut Valentin Oppenauer in Poysdorf, Lower Austria, has been built around that discipline…
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Winemaker
Valentin Vernin
Mige, France
Valentin Vernin heads Domaine Houblin Vernin in Migé, within the Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse appellation area, where his work is shaped by the quiet discipline of the vineyard…
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Chef
Valentina Arteaga
La Paz, Bolivia
In La Paz, Bolivia, Bolivian territory supplies the working structure of Valentina Arteaga’s cooking. The Andean highlands, Amazonian regions and valleys are treated as distinct…
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Winemaker
Valentino Cirulli
Ficulle, Italy
Valentino Cirulli is the winemaker and owner of CastelNoha in Ficulle, Italy. ## The Path The cellar work is informed here by lab work: Valentino Cirulli began as a researcher at…
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Winemaker
Valentino Sciotti
Ortona, Italy
## The Path In wine, continuity is a working method, and Valentino Sciotti’s roles at Fantini Group and Vini Fantini place that method at the center of the operation. As president…
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Chef
Valentino Ugolini
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Every ingredient tells a story. I am here to ‘Spread A Little Happiness’. ## The Path Italian dough work starts with sequence: flour, yeast, heat, time. In Valentino Ugolini’s…
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Winemaker
Valère Diochet
Boujan Sur Libron, France
## The Path Training at Guy Savoy leaves little room for shortcuts, and Valère Diochet’s formation reads like the result of that kind of kitchen: repetition, precision, and…
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Winemaker
Valeria Losi
Castelnuovo Berardenga, Italy
Valeria Losi is Export Manager for Agricola Losi in Castelnuovo Berardenga, Italy, a role centred on moving a family estate’s identity into international trade without losing the…
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Winemaker
Valérie Dagueneau
Saint-Andelain, France
Pouilly-Fumé is the working center of Domaine Serge Dagueneau et Filles in Saint-Andelain, France. The family estate carries its name through vineyard and cellar practice, with…
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Valérie Guérin
La Palme, France
Valérie Guérin is a proprietor and vigneronne at Domaine Les Mille Vignes in La Palme, Languedoc. She works with her sister Agnès at the family estate, whose small-production…
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Winemaker
Valérie Soutiran
Ambonnay, France
Since 1999, co-stewardship and management at Champagne Soutiran in Ambonnay have defined Valérie Soutiran’s role as one of continuity rather than reinvention. The work is measured…
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Chef
Vallerie Castillo-Archer
Los Angeles, California, United States
## Coming Up Pastry at Yamashiro Hollywood asked for control before flourish, and Vallerie Castillo-Archer met that brief as executive pastry chef from 2019 to 2020 in Hollywood,…
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Winemaker
Valter Barbero
Mango, Italy
## The Climb At Cascina Pian d'Or (Cascina Pian d'Or AZ.AGR. Di Barbero Valter), the work of winemaker and owner places Valter Barbero inside every step of the estate’s…
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Winemaker
Valter Bera
Neviglie, Italy
## The Climb Since 1979, Valter Bera has been winemaker at Bera, and the work shows what long stewardship can do when it is treated as an instrument of style. Across decades, the…
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Winemaker
Valter Salizzoni
Calliano, Italy
Valter Salizzoni is the winemaker of Cantina Salizzoni in Calliano, Italy, and the work is built around one house, one site, and one long-running frame of reference. Since 1986,…
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Vanessa González
Montevideo, Uruguay
Executive Chef at Parador La Huella in José Ignacio is the role that best shows Vanessa Gonz’s command of timing, composure, and clean execution. In a kitchen shaped by its…
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Winemaker
Vasco Croft
Arcos De Valdevez, Portugal
Vasco Croft runs Aphros Wine in Portugal as both General Manager and owner, keeping farm decisions and cellar direction under the same producer. That alignment matters in…
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Chef
Velat Sari
Los Angeles, California, United States
Velat Sari has held the role of Corporate Executive Chef at Nusr-Et since 2021. The position reflects a career built on discipline, pace, and a steady tightening of technique. His…
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Winemaker
Véronique Ballu
Saint-Émilion, France
Véronique Ballu stands at the helm of Château Pierre de Lune in Saint-Émilion, where her name is the estate itself. As owner, she is not simply connected to the property; she is…
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Winemaker
Véronique Günther-Chereau
Saint Fiacre Sur Maine, France
## The Path At Château du Coing-de-Saint-Fiacre in Saint Fiacre Sur Maine, France, Véronique Günther-Chereau works within a narrow frame by design: Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine, and…
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Winemaker
Vianney Castan
Gignac, France
## Coming Up Since 2007, Joseph Castan Fine Wine has been guided by Vianney Castan as co-founder and president, with the work set by discipline more than display. The emphasis…
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Chef
Vicken Tavitian
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Vicken Tavitian’s 2023 promotion to Executive Chef of Bouchon in Santa Barbara, United States, reads as a straight line rather than a pivot. The work here is continuity: one…
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Winemaker
Víctor Martínez
Gumiel De Izan, Spain
## The Climb Since 2010, Bodega Vinum Vitae has been tied to Víctor Mart through ownership and winemaking, with the cellar decisions, vineyard timing, and final style all running…
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Winemaker
Victor Schoenfeld
Katzrin, Israel
Victor Schoenfeld has spent more than three decades shaping the house style at Golan Heights Winery in Katzrin, Israel, and since 1992 he has served as head winemaker there. In a…
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Winemaker
Victoria Benavides
San Roman De Hornija, Spain
Victoria Benavides has been winemaker at Bodega Elías Mora in San Román de Hornija, Spain, since 2000, and that continuity has made the role larger than cellar work alone. As both…
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Winemaker
Victoria Garten
Binissalem, Spain
Victoria Garten is the winemaker at Bodega Jardi Lavica in Binissalem. The work is defined by patience, precision, and the conditions of place, with the estate shaping each…
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Winemaker
Victoria Pariente
La Seca, Spain
Victoria Pariente has built her work around inheritance made practical: a family name carried into a winery, and a winery grounded in La Seca, Valladolid, Spain. At Bodegas José…
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Vieri Andrea
Florence, Italy
Vieri Andrea’s work as Executive Chef at Osteria delle Tre Panche in Florence, Italy is shaped by place as much as by technique. The city’s layered culinary identity and the…
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Chef
Viet Linh Nguyen
San Mateo, California, United States
The brief is blunt: “No Trend No Short Cut No Bullshit.” As a working statement, it points straight at method—discipline over noise, precision over decoration, and standards that…
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Chef
Vieux-Bois: Stéphane Faval
Geneva, Switzerland
## The Path Restaurant-led production defines this role: since 2014, Stéphane Faval has been chef running the restaurant d'application Les Vieux Bois of Les Vieux Bois, a position…
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Chef
Vijayudu Veena
Miami, Florida, United States
The career line is short, but it shows the usual climb made clean: Executive Sous-Chef in 2016, then Executive Chef one year later. In Vijayudu Veena’s case, that sequence points…
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Bocuse d'Or laureate
Viktor ANDRESSON
Grindavík, Iceland
## The Path Viktor Andresson was trained in kitchens that treat precision as baseline work. In France, with Christophe Moisand and Philippe Girardon, and then in Denmark with…
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Winemaker
Viktor Fischer
Wagram Ob Der Traisen, Austria
Viktor Fischer works as winemaker at Bioweingut Viktor Fischer in Wagram ob der Traisen, Austria, with organic wines as the stated focus. The craft here is one of timing,…
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Bocuse d'Or laureate
Viktor Örn Andrésson
Grindavík, Iceland
Viktor Örn Andrésson’s path is a study in disciplined repetition: formal internships, representative team service, and leadership in a major Icelandic food setting, each step…
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Chef
Viktoria Fuchs
Münstertal, Germany
Viktoria Fuchs cooks from a place shaped by family, landscape, and memory. As head chef and co-leader of the family hotel-Restaurant Spielweg in Münstertal, Germany, she works…
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Winemaker
Viñas Familia Gil
Guardia, Spain
Viñas Familia Gil ## Coming Up The work here is portfolio building by region: Gil Family Estates added wineries across Spain one by one, and each addition brought a different…
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Winemaker
Vincent Brochet
Ecueil, France
## The Essentials - Role: winemaker. - Place: Écueil, France. - Year attached to the role: 1990. - Specialty: Champagne. At Écueil, France, Vincent Brochet has worked in Champagne…
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Winemaker
Vincent Cantié
Collioure, France
Vincent Cantié’s work at Domaine La Tour Vieille is built on continuity: the same ground, the same estate, the same town of Collioure. Trained there as an engineer agronomist in…
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Winemaker
Vincent Chansault
Brugairolles, France
## The Path At the School of Viticulture and Oenology in Cognac, Vincent Chansault trained in the fundamentals that shape a working winemaker: close observation, technical…
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Winemaker
Vincent Chatelain
Saint-Andelain, France
## The Climb On-screen testing work put Vincent Chatelain into public view in 2013, when the credit **"serial testeur"** on **"On n'est pas que des cobayes"** for **TV Vendée /…
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Chef
Vincent Cortese
New York City, New York, United States
Vincent Cortese’s work sits in the discipline of New York kitchens, where progression is earned through repetition, timing, and control. In 2023, he was Executive Chef at Bar…
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Winemaker
Vincent Couche
Buxeuil, France
## Coming Up The line between vineyard work and cellar work is unusually short in Vincent Couche’s case. Beaune provided the formal ground, and that training shows in the…
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Winemaker
Vincent Gaudry
Sury En Vaux, France
## Coming Up Training at the Family vineyard in Sancerre gave Vincent Gaudry an early grounding in the tempo of the vines and the discipline of the region. The point is not…
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Winemaker
Vincent Grall
Sancerre, France
Vincent Grall’s work is built on continuity and restraint: a family winemaking tradition carried into Domaine Vincent Grall, where the scale stays intimate and the emphasis…
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Winemaker, Domaine Pierre Guillemot
Vincent Guillemot
Savigny-lès-Beaune, France
Pinot Noir work at Domaine Pierre Guillemot is tied to Savigny-lès-Beaune, France, where day-to-day domaine operations and cellar decisions sit with Vincent Guillemot and Philippe…
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Winemaker
Vincent Guizard
Puechabon, France
Vincent Guizard is co-owner of Domaine Saint Sylvestre in Puechabon, in Languedoc. Before that, he worked at Mas Jullien and at Domaine de Montcalmès, where he was associated with…
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