The People · Page 52
The artisans of taste.
Winemaker
Julien Brocard
Préhy, France
## Career Julien Brocard joined Domaine Jean-Marc Brocard in Préhy in 1996, and the work has stayed close to the same estate ever since. That kind of continuity matters in wine:…
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Kareem Massoud
Aquebogue, New York, United States
Kareem Massoud’s work sits on a line of inherited practice and formal training, with the vineyard as the constant reference point. Growing up around his father’s winemaking at the…
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Winemaker
Kate Goodman
Coonawarra, Australia
## Coming Up Since 2003, Kate Goodman has run own company, building a body of work with steady control and little interest in spectacle. The line through that period is…
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Winemaker
Keith Hentschke
Barossa Valley, Australia
Keith Hentschke is the Founder and Managing Director of Hentley Farm Wines in Barossa Valley, Australia, a post defined by close reading of site and a practical commitment to…
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Winemaker
Ken Brown
Buellton, California, United States
Ken Brown is the owner and winemaker of Ken Brown Wines in Buellton, a name long tied to Pinot Noir and to the disciplined work that serious winemaking asks for. A…
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Winemaker
Ken Forrester
Stellenbosch, South Africa
## The Path At Ken Forster Vineyards in Stellenbosch, South Africa, the winemaking work is bound to more than cellar practice. Under Ken Forrester, it sits alongside hospitality…
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Winemaker
Kevin Grant
Hermanus, South Africa
Winemaking at Ataraxia Wines in Hermanus, South Africa, and membership in the Cape Winemakers Guild place Kevin Grant in a working trade register shaped by restraint. The wines…
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Winemaker
Konstantinos Lazarakis MW
Palaio Faliro, Greece
## Where It Started Born in Piraeus, Greece, Konstantinos Lazarakis MW comes out of a route shaped by ports, formal study, and music rather than a single straight apprenticeship.…
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Winemaker
Kristin Bryden
Santa Ynez, California, United States
Since 2021, Kristin Bryden has been General Manager and winemaker at Zaca Mesa Winery & Vineyard in Santa Ynez, a job built on timing, palate, and the discipline to keep close…
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Chef
Kurt Gutenbrunner
New York City, New York, United States
Before Kurt Gutenbrunner took ownership of Wallsé in New York City, the work was already formed in Austria, where school and kitchens passed technique hand to hand, gesture by…
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Winemaker
Lilian Barton Sartorius
Saint-Julien-Beychevelle, France
Lilian Barton Sartorius sits inside a Bordeaux wine line where the work is less about reinvention than continuity: the same family name, the same estates, the same practical…
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Lindsay McCall
Mornington Peninsula, Australia
## Coming Up A geography-teaching background can sharpen the way vineyard work is read: as a sequence of place, season, and change. Lindsay McCall moved from the classroom into…
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Winemaker
Lisa Amaroli
Glen Ellen, California, United States
In Glen Ellen, Sonoma County fruit, family winery culture, and certified farming practices meet in the glass through Lisa Amaroli’s work at Benziger Family Winery. Since 2015, she…
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Winemaker
Lisa Togni
St. Helena, California, United States
From Spring Mountain in Napa Valley to the cellar at Philip Togni Vineyard in St. Helena, United States, Lisa Togni’s work is built on patience, precision, and close attention to…
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Winemaker
Lucia Romero-Marcuzzi
Cafayate, Argentina
Lucia Romero-Marcuzzi is winemaker at El Porvenir de Cafayate, Argentina. The work here is a matter of cellar discipline and vineyard continuity, with Lucia Romero-Marcuzzi moving…
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Winemaker
Maayan Koschitzky
Napa, California, United States
From Israel’s vineyards to Atelier Melka in St. Helena, Maayan Koschitzky’s work shows the value of discipline, restraint, and repeatable precision. The line through the career is…
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Winemaker
Marc Kent
Franschhoek, South Africa
Marc Kent is Managing Partner & Technical Director at Boekenhoutskloof in Franschhoek, South Africa, and his work remains closely bound to Syrah and to his role at the estate. In…
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Bartender / bar director
Marco Aurelio Dorantes
Mexico City, Mexico
Marco Aurelio Dorantes works at Fifty Mils, where tequila and mezcal drinks set the terms of the bar. That landscape gives his work a clear frame, one built around balance,…
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Winemaker
María Luz Marín
Lo Abarca, Chile
## The Climb Training at the University of Chile gave María Luz Marín the framework for a career built on rigor and control. In 2000, she founded Viña Casa Marín, establishing a…
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Winemaker
Mark Le Roux
Stellenbosch, South Africa
## The Path Since 2009, cellarmaking and operations at Waterford Estate in Stellenbosch have sat with Mark Le Roux, who has held the Cellarmaster and COO role across that period.…
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Winemaker
Matías Cruzat
Curicó, Chile
## Career Matías Cruzat has served as Chief Winemaker for the Castillo de Molina and 1865 brands at Viña San Pedro in Curicó since 2013, a post that keeps him working at the level…
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Winemaker
Matthew Byrne
Margaret River, Australia
## The Climb Charles Sturt University provided the technical base for Matthew Byrne’s work, with the emphasis on precision carrying through into the cellar. He is now winemaker of…
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Winemaker
Maurizio Castelli
Cividale del Friuli, Italy
His work includes Bastianich Plus Tocai 2006, Merletto Sangiovese 2014, and Aragone for La Mozza, a “Super-Mediterranean” blend built from 40% Sangiovese, 25% Syrah, 25% Alicante,…
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Winemaker
Maxwell Bruening
Sherwood, Oregon, United States
## The Path Winemaking at Ponzi Vineyards in Sherwood, Oregon, sits on top of a route built harvest by harvest. For Maxwell Bruening, the work has moved through Michigan,…
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Wine authority
May-Eliane de Lencquesaing
Stellenbosch, South Africa
May-Eliane de Lencquesaing built her name in Bordeaux wine and carried that framework into South Africa, where Glenelly Estate in Stellenbosch extends the same discipline across a…
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Winemaker
Melanie Chester
Yarra Valley, Australia
Melanie Chester has been General Manager and Head Winemaker at Giant Steps in the Yarra Valley, Australia, since 2021, a role that places vineyard reading and cellar work in the…
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Winemaker
Michael Malan
Stellenbosch, South Africa
## The Climb Cellarmaster work at Simonsig Wine Estate in Stellenbosch is built on continuity here: the cellar, the vineyards, the tasting room, and the estate itself all sit…
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Winemaker
Michel Gros
Vosne-Romanée, France
Michel Gros’s place in Burgundy is defined by inheritance translated into method: a winemaker formed inside a family estate, then established under his own name in the Côte d’Or.…
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Winemaker
Montserrat Molina
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain
From enóloga in 2014 to Head of Production at Bodegas Barbadillo in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Montserrat Molina’s work has stayed close to the same house, the same Atlantic…
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Chef
Nahid Ahmed
New York City, New York, United States
## The Climb At ICI International Culinary School in Switzerland, Nahid Ahmed picked up the formal base that would carry through every subsequent kitchen: discipline, repetition,…
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Winemaker
Neil Pike
Clare Valley, Australia
That role capped a long, closely held run at Pikes Wines, with the brief set plainly: make Clare Valley speak, most clearly through Dry Riesling. For Neil Pike, the work was never…
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Nic Peterkin
Margaret River, Australia
## The Climb Wine training and vintage work run in parallel here. University of Western Australia and University of Adelaide gave Nic Peterkin the formal grounding, but the trade…
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Winemaker
Nick Farr
Geelong, Australia
Nick Farr works across a tight set of sites and labels in Geelong and beyond, with the winemaking role at Wine by Farr sitting alongside Farr Rising, which he established in 2001.…
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Winemaker
Nick Gizuk
Niagara Falls, Canada
In Niagara, grapes are the material Nick Gizuk keeps returning to: fruit, place, and the measured hand required to carry them toward wine without blurring origin. At Inniskillin,…
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Winemaker
Nicolas Drouhin
Gevrey-Chambertin, France
Nicolas Drouhin’s work at Domaine Drouhin-Laroze in Gevrey-Chambertin sits where winemaking, cellar management, and operational oversight meet. In cooperation with his father, he…
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Winemaker
Nikos Douloufakis
Dafnes, Greece
Nikos Douloufakis works at Douloufakis Winery in Dafnes, Crete, Greece, where winemaking is anchored in Indigenous Cretan varieties. The craft here is not built around style for…
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Winemaker
Nikos Karatzas
Drama, Greece
Nikos Karatzas is the Winemaker - CEO of Oenops Wines PC in Drama, Greece, and the founder of Oenops Wines, which he established there in 2015. The line reads like a working brief…
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Winemaker
Paul Dahlenburg
Glenrowan, Australia
Paul Dahlenburg’s career is built on continuity: formal study at the University of Melbourne, a first professional post at Morris of Rutherglen winery, and then a long stretch at…
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Winemaker
Paul Zinetti
Pommard, France
He has worked at the estate since 2010, taking over after Benjamin Leroux’s departure, with Clos des Epeneaux as his specialty. “My philosophy is to make great Clos des Epeneaux,…
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Winemaker
Paula Borgo
Agrelo, Argentina
## The Climb Training at Centro de Estudios Enologicos, INTA Mendoza, Paula Borgo entered wine through the vineyard floor and harvest work, not the tasting room. She began at…
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Winemaker
Peter de Wet
Robertson, South Africa
Peter de Wet works at De Wetshof Estate in Robertson, South Africa, where Chardonnay is the defining category and precision is the working style. The wines are built around…
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Winemaker
Peter Heitz
Oakville, California, United States
## The Path Tenure can tell you a lot about a winemaker’s method. Peter Heitz has been at Turnbull Wine Cellars in Oakville since 2007, and the length of that post fits a career…
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Winemaker
Peter Symington
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
## Coming Up Peter Symington’s early work as port blender sat at the point where house style is made, not described. Overseeing all Port production at the Symington family…
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Winemaker
Piero Incisa della Rocchetta
Mainqué, Argentina
The work begins with restraint: the clearest possible reading of Mainqué’s climate, micro-climate, and terroir. In Piero Incisa della Rocchetta’s case, that means treating the…
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Winemaker
Pierre Meurgey
Beaune, France
Pierre Meurgey’s work at Domaine Clos de la Chapelle is anchored in cellar practice: vinification, tending, and bottling carried out in his own cellars with attention to the…
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Sommelier
Rajat Parr
Cambria, California, United States
Indian-American farming and winemaking, in Rajat Parr’s case, has tightened over time from restaurant-scale wine work to the demands of one site: Phelan Farm in Cambria,…
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Winemaker
Ralf Holdenried
Napa, California, United States
Ralf Holdenried leads the winemaking team at Black Stallion Estate Winery in Napa, United States, where the work depends on reading what the vineyard gives and carrying that…
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Chef
Raquel Carena
Paris, France
## Coming Up At Le Baratin, Raquel Carena has held the chef’s post since 1987. In restaurant terms, that length of tenure is its own form of discipline: the same room, the same…
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Winemaker
Ray Nadeson
Geelong, Australia
## Coming Up Formal study at Charles Sturt University gave Ray Nadeson the technical grounding and discipline that have shaped the work since. The emphasis from the start has been…
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Winemaker
Razvan Macici
Paarl, South Africa
Razvan Macici has been cellarmaster at Nederburg in Paarl since 2001, a position that sits at the working center of cellar discipline: timing, judgment, and consistency. The focus…
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Winemaker
Reagan Sivadon
Johnson City, Texas, United States
## The Essentials Texas wine is the fixed point in Reagan Sivadon’s work: the specialty anchors her path from cellar roles into ownership, and it gives Sandy Road Vineyards in…
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Winemaker
Rebecca Willson
Langhorne Creek, Australia
## Where They Are Now At Bremerton Wines, senior winemaking since 1997 has been built around Langhorne Creek, South Australia, where Rebecca Willson has worked in close step with…
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Winemaker
Rich Olsen-Harbich
Cutchogue, New York, United States
Rich Olsen-Harbich served as Director of Winemaking at Bedell Cellars in Cutchogue, New York, until 2025, closing a long run on Long Island’s East End. The work was built from the…
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Chef
Richard Sandoval
Manchester, United Kingdom
Trained at the Culinary Institute of America, Richard Sandoval has built a cooking style that works from Mexican flavor, then widens it with global ingredients and creative…
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Rob Zwirz
New York City, New York, United States
Rob Zwirz leads the kitchen at Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca in New York City, and the work shows an Italian-American point of reference shaped by the city’s pace, pressure, and…
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Winemaker
Robert O'Callaghan
Barossa Valley, Australia
Robert O'Callaghan is the winemaker of Rockford in Krondorf, Barossa Valley, Australia, where the work is defined by patient handling, direct cellar involvement, and a long…
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Winemaker
Roberto Luka
Tupungato, Argentina
Roberto Luka is President and Founder of Finca Sophenia in Tupungato, Argentina, a role defined by site, continuity, and the slower logic of estate building. His work also…
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Winemaker
Roelof Lotriet
Stellenbosch, South Africa
## The Path Cellarmaster at Delheim Wine Estate is a role built on continuity: vineyard, cellar, and estate identity all have to stay in conversation. Roelof Lotriet’s position…
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Winemaker
Roman Roth
Sagaponack, New York, United States
## The Path Roman Roth trained at College for Oenology and Viticulture in Weinsberg, a foundation that put technique first and set the terms for a career built on precision,…
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Winemaker
Rudi Schultz
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Since 2000, Rudi Schultz has been winemaker at Thelema Mountain Vineyards in Stellenbosch, South Africa, with a practice built around travel, precision, and the discipline of…
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Winemaker
Russell Bevan
St. Helena, California, United States
Russell Bevan is an American winemaker at Chase Cellars in St. Helena, a name linked to a polished, quietly forceful California red. Born in Sonoma, he came to wine after an…
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Chef
Ryan Hacker
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
His ingredients tend to read like a market basket and a pantry shelf in the same frame: parsnip écrase, young chicories, smoked garlic, almond-chile crunch, turnip purée, and red…
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Ryuji Honma
Niigata, Japan
## The Climb At Kyodaizushi, the omakase is shaped by a dual role: chef-owner and Executive Chef. Ryuji Honma carries both responsibilities, which means the room’s direction and…
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Winemaker
Sakis Nikolaidis
Xanthi, Greece
## Coming Up Today, Sakis Nikolaidis is owner of Anatolikos Vineyards Afoi Nikolaidi O.E. The work reads less like brand-building than farm management: measured, rooted, and built…
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Sommelier
Sam Bortugno
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
The role centers on the restaurant's wine program. ## The Path Wine service at the level of a dining room like Brennan's depends on training, discipline, and a palate built to…
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Winemaker
Samuel Billaud
Chablis, France
## Coming Up Chablis shaped the early work at Domaine Billaud-Simon in Chablis, Burgundy, France, where Samuel Billaud worked as winemaker until 2009. The job demanded patient…
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Winemaker
Sándor Mérész
Etyek, Hungary
## The Path At Etyeki Kúria in Etyek, Hungary, Sándor Mérész’s work reads as a study in continuity: by 2009 he was already established as head winemaker, and since 2013 he has…
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Winemaker
Sarah Marquis
McLaren Vale, Australia
McLaren Vale is the working ground behind Sarah Marquis’s wines: Shiraz-led, textural, ripe without losing shape, and built to read as hands-on rather than over-managed. At…
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Winemaker
Sarah Quider
Healdsburg, California, United States
Since 2024, Sarah Quider has owned and founded Healdsburg Bubble Bar in Healdsburg, a business built in the county where she grew up. The move reads as a local return with…
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Winemaker
Sebastian Beaumont
Bot River, South Africa
Sebastian Beaumont’s work is tied to Bot River, South Africa, where the family name and the land have been linked for decades. Born there in 1974, soon after his family bought the…
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Winemaker
Simon Black
Mornington Peninsula, Australia
Simon Black is chief winemaker at Montalto Estate in the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, where site carries through to the glass. His work is tied to fruit from five vineyards,…
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Winemaker
Sotiris Gkinis
Peania, Greece
Sotiris Gkinis works as winemaker, oenologist, and founder at Aoton Winery in Peania, Attica, Greece. Those roles are anchored in one site and one production context, with the…
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Winemaker
Spyros Papandreou
Nemea, Greece
Spyros Papandreou’s work sits where cellar discipline meets site expression. At Acra Winery in Nemea, Greece, the oenologist and winemaker is responsible for turning vineyard…
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Winemaker
Stelios Kechris
Kalochori, Greece
## Career Family continuity and winemaking practice meet in Stelios Kechris’s work at Kechris Winery in Kalochori, Greece. The thread is consistent through each stage, with the…
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Chef
Stéphane Rossillon
Avize, France
Stéphane Rossillon works the line at Les Avisés in Avize, France, where the cooking reads plain on the plate and is built to carry flavor cleanly. Before that, he was…
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Winemaker
Stephen Chambers
Rutherglen, Australia
Stephen Chambers is the winemaker at Chambers Rosewood Vineyards, the Rosewood winery in Rutherglen, Australia, where his 2001 role places him inside one of the region’s working…
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Winemaker
Stephen George
Adelaide Hills, Australia
## The Climb In the Clare Valley, winemaking under Stephen George took shape through close attention to place: bright light, a hard-edged landscape, and a region with its own…
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Winemaker
Stephen Pannell
McLaren Vale, Australia
Founder and winemaker at Koomilya in McLaren Vale since 2012, Stephen Pannell has built his practice around one central question: how to make vineyard character readable in the…
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Winemaker
Steve Beckmen
Solvang, California, United States
## Career Steve Beckmen works the winemaking side of Beckmen Vineyards in Solvang with a farmer’s logic: the grapes come first, and the cellar follows. That view frames the job as…
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Steve Zotovich
Lompoc, California, United States
Steve Zotovich runs Zotovich Vineyards in Lompoc with a working philosophy that keeps the vineyard and winery tied together. The wines are hand crafted, with control carried…
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Winemaker
Szabolcs Juhász
Tarcal, Hungary
## The Climb The 2025 CEO appointment at Grand Tokaj is the defining marker of Szabolcs Juhász’s current position. In a sector where continuity matters, the role places him in…
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Winemaker
Talloulah Dubourg
Sampigny-lès-Maranges, France
Talloulah Dubourg is a winemaker and co-founder of Domaine de Cassiopée in Sampigny-lès-Maranges, France. The work sits in the slow, exacting rhythms of Burgundy viticulture,…
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Winemaker
Tamás Hernyák
Etyek, Hungary
## The Path The estate’s move toward a distinct sparkling-wine identity is carried in Hernyák Sparkling Wine, and Tamás Hernyák’s work sits inside that shift. The style is rooted…
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Winemaker
Ted Lemon
Sebastopol, California, United States
## The Path Winemaking here starts with restraint: wines that read as poised, clear, and composed rather than pushed toward effect. In the case of Ted Lemon, that approach has…
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Winemaker
Theresa Heredia
Healdsburg, California, United States
## The Path Harvest work, cellar instruction, and regional shifts formed the core of Theresa Heredia’s early training. A harvest internship at Saintsbury in Napa Carneros,…
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Winemaker
Thomas Brown
St. Helena, California, United States
Thomas Brown is the winemaker at Revana Family Vineyard in St. Helena, California, where his attention is fixed on Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. In a region where the grape can…
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Winemaker
Tom Barry
Clare Valley, Australia
Tom Barry is winemaker at Jim Barry Wines in Clare Valley, Australia, where family continuity is built into the work itself. The specialty is Riesling wines, a style that rewards…
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Winemaker
Tom Wallace
East Coast TAS, Australia
His specialty is premium cool-climate wines, and Tom Wallace speaks about them in terms of site, season and fruit expression rather than romance. In cool-climate work, the…
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Winemaker
Tony Brady
Clare Valley, Australia
## Coming Up Since 1974, custodian and winemaker Tony Brady has held Wendouree to a standard built on continuity. The role is less about display than maintenance: keeping vineyard…
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Winemaker
Tony Truchard
Napa, California, United States
## Coming Up The discipline of medicine shaped the early part of Tony Truchard’s working life, where he served as an Army Physician at U.S. Army; Brooke Medical Center in Fort Sam…
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Winemaker
Vangelis Gerovassiliou
Epanomi, Greece
Vangelis Gerovassiliou has been winemaker at Domaine Gerovassiliou in Epanomi, Greece, since 1981. That span gives the role its weight: a long tenure, a fixed site, and a practice…
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Winemaker
Virginie Moreau
Chablis, France
Virginie Moreau leads Domaine Moreau-Naudet in Chablis, France, where the work is bound to the domaine’s character and to the regional demand for precision. The craft here is…
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Winemaker
Vivien Ujvári
Mád, Hungary
Vivien Ujv’s work at Barta Winery in Mád sits at the point where cellar practice meets estate management, with the two kept in the same disciplined cadence. Since 2016, she has…
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Winemaker
Werner Engelbrecht
Somerset West, South Africa
## At a Glance - Estate origin: he worked alongside Farm Manager Christiaan Loots after Paul Boutinot joined the project. - Craft marker: in 2013, the approach was traditional and…
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Winemaker
Werner Muller
Elgin, South Africa
“It’s a very special place – there’s nothing quite like farming up here, and I’ve been incredibly fortunate to do it with people who care so deeply about what they do.” ## Coming…
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Winemaker
Xavier Garnier
Ligny-le-Châtel, France
Xavier Garnier works as winemaker at Domaine Garnier & Fils in Ligny-le-Châtel, France, where the estate is being built in real time rather than maintained from inherited…
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Yiannis Troupis
Mantinia, Greece
The defining move at Troupis Winery is a technical one: pink-skinned Moschofilero has been worked into rosé, orange wine, and even a light red, a first in Mantinia, through…
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Yolande van Staden
Somerset West, South Africa
## The Path Wine practice at Morgenster Estate in Somerset West is shaped here by a background in microbiology and the discipline of Stellenbosch University, with Yolande van…
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Winemaker
Zelma Long
Paarl, South Africa
From studies at the University of California, Davis in the late 1960s to a partnership in winemaking at Vilafonté in Paarl, South Africa, Zelma Long’s career has been built on the…
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Winemaker
Zoltán Heimann Jr
Szekszárd, Hungary
In Szekszárd, Hungary, the most legible work in Zoltán Heimann Jr’s cellar is the conversation between Kadarka and Kékfrankos at Heimann & Fiai, where he serves as winemaker. The…
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