The People · Page 55
The artisans of taste.
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Adam Carpenter
Adelaide, Australia
The gin work at Prohibition Liquor Co is positioned against a renewed market for the spirit, with Adam Carpenter founding the Adelaide, South Australia company and serving as CEO.…
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Adam Foster
Heathcote, Australia
## Coming Up Trade discipline moved early here: Adam Foster trained at Continental Café before stepping into the kitchen at Lake House, first as chef and then as Head Chef at Lake…
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Ádám Juhász
Eger, Hungary
Ádám Juhász owns Juhász Brothers Winery in Eger, a second-generation family winery that began in 1996 with 1.5 hectares of vineyards. That starting scale matters: the surname is…
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Adam Lee
Healdsburg, California, United States
Trinity University educated Adam Lee before a wine career centered on Pinot Noir. The throughline is discipline: a start in Austin, Texas, as the only adopted child of two…
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Adeline de Barry
La Motte, France
Adeline de Barry is the winemaker of Château de Saint-Martin in La Motte, France, and her view of inheritance is spare and direct: "My grandfather was an exception." At Château de…
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Adrián Manchón
Tunuyán, Argentina
## Coming Up At Bodega Cuvelier Los Andes in Vista Flores, Tunuyán, Mendoza, Argentina, the work of the First Winemaker and General Manager sits between cellar decisions and…
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Agustín Alcoleas
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
Since 2024, Agustín Alcoleas has served as head winemaker—primer enólogo, or first winemaker—at Bodega Casarena in Perdriel, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. The role puts him…
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Ákos Kamocsay
Neszmély, Hungary
## Where They Are Now At Hilltop Neszmély Winery, chief winemaker Ákos Kamocsay holds the role that sets style, pace, and seasonal decisions for the cellar. The title is…
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Alan Cooper
Macedon Ranges, Australia
## Coming Up The work at Cobaw Ridge is built on farming first: in 1985, Alan Cooper and Nelly Cooper planted the vineyard after buying the land to return to agriculture and build…
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Alan Viader
Angwin, California, United States
I grew up in the wine business. “I grew up in the wine business.” ## Coming Up At Howell Mountain, the work is shaped by elevation, site pressure, and the long discipline of…
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Alberto Rodriguez
Napa, California, United States
## Coming Up Wine work rewards people who can move from line cook discipline to cellar patience, and Alberto Rodriguez arrived with both. The Culinary Institute of America gave…
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Aldert Nieuwoudt
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Aldert Nieuwoudt’s work at Eikendal Vineyards in Stellenbosch, South Africa, sits in the winemaker’s chair at one of the Cape’s respected estates. The path to that role runs…
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Alejandra Riofrío
Mendoza, Argentina
## Coming Up Chief winemaking at Bodega Navarro Correas in Agrelo, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina has been Alejandra Riofr’s brief since 2018, placing her inside a house that…
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Chef
Alex Carrasco
Los Angeles, California, United States
## Coming Up Before moving into chef roles, Alex Carrasco spent his early years on the line as a kitchen worker at Viceroy, Joe’s Restaurant, Paiche, Mo-chica, Red Medicine, and…
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Alex MacGregor
Hopland, California, United States
Alex MacGregor has owned and made the wines at Trinafour Cellars since 2005, and he also serves as head winemaker at Saracina Vineyards in Mendocino County. The work is built…
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Alex Villicana
Paso Robles, California, United States
Alex Villicana is the winemaker of Villicana Winery in Paso Robles, the California winery he founded in 1993. The throughline is continuity: one estate, one point of view, and a…
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Alexander Eisele
St. Helena, California, United States
Alexander Eisele is the General Manager of Volker Eisele Family Estate in St. Helena, United States, where organic farming and estate-grown wines set the terms of the work. At…
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Alexander Stodden
Rech, Germany
Alexander Stodden is winemaker at Weingut Jean Stodden in Rech, Germany, where the family name and the work of the vineyard are tied to the same address. The focus is…
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Alexander Zahel
Vienna, Austria
His work is built around Gemischter Satz, and in Alexander Zahel’s hands it is treated as a working method, not a label. The wine’s layered character and clear sense of place sit…
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Alexandra Manousakis
Vatolakkos, Greece
## The Climb Training at NYU gave Alexandra Manousakis a base that could carry across institutions, markets, and the winery floor. That breadth shows up in the sequence that…
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Alfons Walcher
Appiano, Italy
His work has long been centered on controlled production, where craft is written through discipline: recipe-based methods, standardized process, managed fermentation, temperature…
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Alison Doran
Yountville, California, United States
Alison Doran has been the winemaker for Hill Family Estate in Yountville, United States, since 2001. The work there is built around site expression: wine that reads first as…
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Alix Millot
Nuits-Saint-Georges, France
Alix Millot has been the winemaker at Domaine Jean-Marc Millot in Nuits-Saint-Georges, France, since 2016, a position built on close familiarity with the estate’s vineyard work…
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Allan Fetty
Johnson City, Texas, United States
His route into wine runs through semiconductor engineering and, later, owner-winemaker and founder on Hamilton Pool Road. ## The Climb The work behind Allan Fetty’s vineyard and…
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Alvaro Aniano
Canelones, Uruguay
Alvaro Aniano founded Basta Spirit in Uruguay in 2018, placing premium spirits production and brand development into the same working frame. The craft here is twofold: what is…
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Amael Orrego
Casablanca, Morocco
Amael Orrego is winemaker at Kingston Family Vineyards in Casablanca, Chile, and his work also extends to Benton-Lane Winery in Monroe, Oregon. Across those two estates and two…
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Amanda Gorter
Paso Robles, California, United States
The route paired study at the University of California, Davis with work centered on the Central Coast, giving Amanda Gorter a base built on classroom rigor and cellar pace. That…
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Amelia Nolan
Greenock, Australia
Amelia Nolan is the winemaker and managing director of Alkina Wine Estate in the Barossa Valley, a role that joins making with stewardship. Raised on a farm in the Wrattonbully…
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Ames Morison
Healdsburg, California, United States
Ames Morison is the winemaker at Medlock Ames Winery in Healdsburg, United States, where site drives the work as much as cellar practice. He is also a teacher and studied Ancient…
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Analía Lazaneo
Canelones, Uruguay
Analía Lazaneo is director of winery at Artesana in Canelones, Uruguay. In practical terms, that puts her in charge of the estate’s cellar decisions and the day-to-day cadence…
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Andre Bondar
McLaren Vale, Australia
Andre Bondar is the winemaker of Bondar Wines in McLaren Vale, Australia, where his style is shaped by a clear instinct for wines that feel alive in the glass: fragrant and…
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Andrea Allen
Springdale, Arkansas, United States
Andrea Allen co-founded Onyx Coffee Lab and leads its hospitality, management and operations work. A coffee professional since 2002, she won the 2020 United States Barista…
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Andrea Ena
Bratislava, Slovakia
## Coming Up Hospitality work in Limone sul Garda, Lake Garda, gave Andrea Ena a practical start in 1994: dishwashing, kitchen support, then the pizza station. The sequence…
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Andrea Ferreyra
Tunuyán, Argentina
Her work is centered on Malbec, estate-grown grapes, quality, and market position. ## The Climb Andrea Ferreyra trained at University of Juan before entering winemaking with a…
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Andrea Maschio
Gaiarine, Italy
"We wanted to leave the botanicals free to express themselves in all their nuances, to achieve maximum aromatic complexity and respect for the raw materials," says Andrea Maschio,…
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Andrea Petrone
Mondragone, Italy
## The Climb At Antica Distilleria Petrone, management has run through family succession rather than reinvention. Andrea Petrone describes his place in that line plainly: “I am…
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Andreas Holderrieth
Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Kellermeister work is about control of pace, condition, and consistency, and Andreas Holderrieth sits in that register at Weingüter Wegeler in Oestrich-Winkel. The role carries…
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Andreas Pantos
Katerini, Greece
Andreas Pantos is the winemaker oenologist of Ktima Pieria Eratini in Kolindros, Pieria, Greece. The role sits at the point where cellar discipline meets estate identity:…
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Andrew Fleming
Yarra Valley, Australia
Andrew Fleming has been Chief Winemaker at Coldstream Hills in the Yarra Valley, Australia, since 2001. The work there is built on detail: a steady approach that keeps place at…
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Andrew Jones
Paso Robles, California, United States
Andrew Jones is the winemaker of Field Recordings Winery in Paso Robles and the founder and winemaker of Field Recordings. The work reads from the vineyard outward: soil, spacing,…
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Andrew Mariani
Sonoma, California, United States
## Coming Up At Scribe Winery in Sonoma, California, the work is about terroir, continuity, and the discipline of staying with one property long enough to learn it properly.…
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Andrew Marks
Yarra Valley, Australia
## Coming Up At Gembrook Hill in the Upper Yarra Valley, Australia, the work is shaped by a yearly effort toward wines that are as exacting as the site allows, without chasing…
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Andy Reagan
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Andy Reagan’s 2005–2012 run at Jefferson Vineyards in Charlottesville is the kind of cellar tenure that shows up in both the records and the bottle. The work is tied to the 2009,…
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Andy Schweiger
St. Helena, California, United States
Andy Schweiger is winemaker at Schweiger Vineyards in St. Helena, United States. ## The Work Today At Schweiger Vineyards, the work has stayed tied to farming as much as cellar…
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Anna Pooley
Richmond, Australia
The route into the cellar is built on study first, then on time in houses shaped by white wine, sparkling wine, established Australian labels, and the cool maritime conditions of…
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Anne Parent
Pommard, France
## The Path Anne Parent worked at Domaine Parent early in her career as winemaker, building the domaine’s voice from inside the family operation rather than at a remove. That kind…
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Anri Truter
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Anri Truter is the winemaker at Beyerskloof in Stellenbosch, South Africa, where Pinotage is the signature grape and the throughline of the estate’s identity. The work here is…
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Antoine Amiot-Servelle
Chambolle-Musigny, France
Antoine Amiot-Servelle is a winemaker and co-manager of Domaine Amiot-Servelle, a family-owned estate in Chambolle-Musigny, Burgundy, France, founded in 1920. Son of Christian…
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Antoine Favero
Hopland, California, United States
Antoine Favero's work sits in Zinfandel at Mazzocco Winery in Sonoma, California, where the grape's structure, ripeness, and regional expression are the center of the brief. ##…
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Antoine Vincent
Fuissé, France
## Coming Up Since 2003, Antoine Vincent has held the winemaking role at Château de Fuissé while also serving as General Manager, a dual mandate that keeps cellar work and estate…
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Antonio Carlos Martinez
Santa Catarina Minas, Mexico
Antonio Carlos Martinez is the master mezcalero at Palenque El Conejo in Santa Catarina Minas, Mexico. The work there sits inside lineage as much as labor: a third-generation…
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Antonio Pulenta
Agrelo, Argentina
Antonio Pulenta is identified through lineage first: a descendant of Italian immigrants, carrying forward a family history shaped by migration and the work of preserving what…
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Ariel Schlein
Pine Plains, New York, United States
## Coming Up At the University of Chicago, Ariel Schlein built the academic base that later informed a career shaped by operatorship rather than a single lane. From 2010–2017, as…
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Arnaud Fabre
Paso Robles, California, United States
## Coming Up Benom places Arnaud Fabre in two linked roles: founder and General Manager of Benom, and owner and winemaker of Benom Wines. In that setup, the work is not divided…
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Arnaud Lavantureux
Lignorelles, France
Arnaud Lavantureux makes wine at Domaine Roland Lavantureux in Lignorelles, France, under a philosophy that keeps the language plain and the targets specific. His own line on the…
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Ashley Herzberg
Healdsburg, California, United States
Ashley Herzberg makes wine at Bacigalupi Vineyards in Healdsburg, California, where she has worked since 2011. Her method rests on minimal intervention paired with maximal…
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Ashley Holland
Philo, California, United States
Ashley Holland makes wine at Brashley Vineyards in Philo, where Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are handled as site wines first and varietals second. In her work, the vineyard is kept…
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Attila Gere
Villány, Hungary
Fekete Járdovány is the defining fact in Attila Gere’s work: a forgotten variety from past centuries that he revived and brought back into view without turning it into a stunt. In…
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Audrey Braccini
Fuissé, France
Cellar direction at Domaine J.-A. Ferret in Fuissé, France, from 2008 to 2023 placed Audrey Braccini inside one of Pouilly-Fuissé’s tighter modern cellar logics. The work is…
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Ausano Ramazzotti
Milan, Italy
Ausano Ramazzotti is a foundational name in Milan’s drinking trade history because Amaro Ramazzotti was founded and created there in 1815. Milan, 1815, and Amaro Ramazzotti are…
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Axelle Machard de Gramont
Nuits-Saint-Georges, France
## Coming Up Organic conversion at Domaine Bertrand Machard de Gramont took shape through yield control as much as through farming method, and from 2004 Axelle Machard de Gramont…
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Baptiste Borderie
Warsaw, Poland
## The Climb Baptiste Borderie’s first fixed point in Paris came at Colvert, where he served as chef from 2023. In a city where pace can flatten weak work, that role already asks…
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Barry Morey
Beechworth, Australia
At Sorrenberg in Beechworth, the vineyard is worked as a set of conditions rather than a backdrop. Barry Morey puts the home block in those terms: surrounded by forest, taking air…
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Bastien Gautheron
Dijon, France
His move into ownership was practical, not romantic: Bastien Gautheron says, “I had some family vines that were becoming free and it was simply the case of ‘now or never.’” That…
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Beáta Nyúlné Dr. Pühra
Tök, Hungary
## At a Glance White-wine work can be read as a chain of accumulated practice, and Beáta Nyúlné Dr. Pühra’s career sits squarely in that frame. In the cellar at Nyakas, continuity…
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Ben Casteel
Salem, Germany
## Coming Up Formal study at the University of Oregon gives way, for Ben Casteel, to cellar and vineyard work in Burgundy, France: first as a winery worker at Burgundy winery in…
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Ben Fetzer
Redwood Valley, California, United States
## The Climb Masút winery is built on the kind of slow accumulation that defines careful winemaking, and Ben Fetzer’s role as co-founder sits inside that work rather than above…
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Ben Jordan
Madison, Virginia, United States
Originally from the Shenandoah Valley, Ben Jordan’s cellar work reads as regional knowledge put to use: rooted, attentive, and shaped by a Virginia landscape that leaves a clear…
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Ben Papapietro
Healdsburg, California, United States
## The Climb A minimalist cellar approach defines the work here: Papapietro Perry Winery, through Ben Papapietro, keeps the wines focused on what the season gives, with…
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Ben Waugh
London, United Kingdom
Ben Waugh’s work at Bancone reads as a study in control: ingredients chosen carefully, then handled with economy. Since 2021, as group executive chef in London, he has worked in a…
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Bence Laposa
Badacsonytomaj, Hungary
Bence Laposa’s work sits inside the discipline of wine and the authority of place. Craft learned in Langenlois, in Austria’s Kamp Valley, feeds into winemaking in Badacsony, where…
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Benjamin Maritim
Osaka, Japan
## The Honours The distinction recorded here is practical rather than ceremonial: responsibility held across Kenya and Japan, with the work identified through specific cuisines,…
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Benoit Pineau
Greenwood, Virginia, United States
His authority in the cellar is not accidental; it is the result of a classical wine education that moves from Bordeaux to Burgundy and on to the University of Toulouse, with a…
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Bernard Bouvier
Gevrey-Chambertin, France
Bernard Bouvier has led Domaine René Bouvier in Gevrey-Chambertin, France, as winemaker and manager from 1992 to the present. The work sits in the ordinary pressure points of the…
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Bernard Lacroute
Yamhill, Oregon, United States
## The Path Training at Ecole Nationale d’Ingenieurs, the University of Grenoble, and the University of Michigan gave Bernard Lacroute a technical base before wine entered the…
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Bernard Quandt
Llano, Texas, United States
## Coming Up Bernard Quandt is distiller of War Trail Spirits. The work sits in a familiar trade register: distilling as a practice of patience, precision, and judgment. His name…
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Bernardo Marzuca
Carmelo, Uruguay
## The Climb Since 2007, Bernardo Marzuca has owned El Legado in Carmelo, after helping recover part of the family estate and shaping the original plan into a smaller, more…
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Bertrand Auboyneau
Paris, France
Bertrand Auboyneau is the French owner and restaurateur of Le 6 Paul Bert in Paris. ## The Path The work here is about continuity: since 1997, Bertrand Auboyneau has led Bistrot…
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Bertrand Chevillon
Nuits-Saint-Georges, France
## The Path That length of shared work points to a cellar culture built on continuity: reading a site over time, holding a house style steady, and keeping the details aligned…
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Bill Nancarrow
Napa, California, United States
Winemaking at Regusci Winery in Napa, California, is the current frame for Bill Nancarrow’s work. ## Coming Up Vineyard work came first in this line of practice: Bill Nancarrow…
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Bill Stoller
Dayton, Oregon, United States
Bill Stoller’s work is anchored in a farmer’s brief: plant grapevines, sell fruit. That aim keeps the focus on the ground itself — on patient cultivation, practical decisions, and…
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Blair Fox
Santa Ynez, California, United States
## Coming Up At University of California, Davis, Blair Fox built the technical grounding behind a cellar practice that reads as exacting rather than ornamental. That training…
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Bob Blue
Hopland, California, United States
## The Climb Founding winemaking at Bonterra Vineyards in 1993 put Bob Blue into a role built on continuity, not noise. The work called for the kind of judgment that accumulates…
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Bob Lindquist
Santa Ynez, California, United States
## The Path Retail was the first training ground for Bob Lindquist: the managed retail wine shop, the first retail wine shop in Los Olivos, Los Olivos, California (1979), where…
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Bob Swain
Ukiah, California, United States
Bob Swain’s work sits in the measured, place-led practice of Mendocino winemaking: reading the county, holding a cellar line, and keeping the style consistent across years. In…
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Bradley Long
Santa Ynez, California, United States
Small-lot winemaking at Grassini Family Vineyards in Santa Barbara, California, United States, has been carried by Bradley Long since 2014. The vineyard is best known for cabernet…
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Brendan Carter
Adelaide Hills, Australia
The early line in the work runs through the wine trade first, then a move south, then ventures built around wine and hospitality. Brendan Carter’s path is less a ladder than a set…
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Bret Urness
Paso Robles, California, United States
## Coming Up Today, Bret Urness works as winemaker and proprietor of Levo Wine, keeping the label on the same measured track it has followed from the start. ## Where They Are Now…
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Brian Facquet
Roscoe, New York, United States
## Coming Up Training at Stony Brook University and the United States Naval Academy gave Brian Facquet two useful disciplines: one built on intellectual range, the other on…
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Brian McGuigan
Hunter Valley, Australia
Brian McGuigan is tied to the practical side of Australian winemaking: the long run from cellar training to company leadership, and the way a family-led business is built by…
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Brian Rudin
Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Brian Rudin is the winemaker for Canvasback in Walla Walla, with a focus on Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon. Western Washington University provided the technical base; the work…
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Brigitte Weutz
Sankt Nikolai im Sausal, Austria
## The Path Training across Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Schlossberginstitut GmbH, Wiener Schule für Gesundheitsförderung, and Zentrum für Psychothera gives Brigitte Weutz’s…
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Brittany Rice
Santa Ynez, California, United States
## The Climb Cellar work is where the shape of this career begins. At Sunstone Vineyards & Winery, Brittany Rice started as Cellar Crew from 1999–2003, after training at…
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Brooke Carhartt
Santa Ynez, California, United States
Brooke Carhartt is the winemaker at Carhartt Family Wines in Santa Ynez, where the work is tied directly to the estate. In 1996, Brooke Carhartt and Mike Carhartt planted a…
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Brooks Painter
Calistoga, California, United States
In Calistoga, Brooks Painter’s work is best read through cellar practice: the long apprenticeship of making wine, the move through operations, and the chemistry and biology that…
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Bruce Gregory
Coonawarra, Australia
His work is direct, disciplined, and referential: a winemaker measuring each decision against vintage, house style, and continuity before novelty. Bruce Gregory puts it plainly:…
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Bussell Retief
Robertson, South Africa
## The Path By 2026, the cellar work around Bussell Retief is centered at Van Loveren Family Vineyards in Robertson, South Africa, where production sets the pace and cellar…
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Carles Ramon
Barcelona, Spain
## Coming Up A disciplined base in hotel and tourism training came through Escola Universitària d'Hoteleria i Turisme CETT, and it shows in the way Carles Ramon has moved between…
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Carlo Beccaris
Costigliole d'Asti, Italy
## The Climb At Distilleria Beccaris, the manager’s role is where house identity is kept current, line by line and day by day. In that position, Carlo Beccaris is responsible for…
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Carlo Quaglia
Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy
Carlo Quaglia works at the point where family continuity and distilling practice meet at Antica Distilleria Quaglia in Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy, where he is Managing Director…
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