The People · Page 56
The artisans of taste.
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Carlos Camarena
Arandas, Mexico
His tequila work is built on distillation, family succession, and a stated belief that agave spirits can express terroir with the same force as wine. In Carlos Camarena’s case,…
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Carlos Pizzorno
Canelones, Uruguay
Carlos Pizzorno is the winemaking director at Pizzorno Family Estates in Canelones, Uruguay, where continuity has been matched by a deliberate shift in scale and intent. As a…
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Carolina Hoyos
Mendoza, Argentina
Carolina Hoyos led the Distillates Project at Casa Tapaus in Mendoza, a role that sits at the meeting point of agricultural timing, technical control, and sensory judgment. Her…
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Caroline Martin
Dublin, Ireland
## The Climb In blending, consistency is built one decision at a time. Caroline Martin’s work at Roe & Co until 2022 sat in that register: reading composition closely, holding…
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Carrie Nahabedian
Chicago, Illinois, United States
## The Climb Career progression in serious kitchens tends to show up in the titles first: assistant chef to the garde manger at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, then cook at…
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Cary Gott
Rutherford, California, United States
## The Path Cellarman work is where California wine often shows its first discipline, and Cary Gott entered it in 1970 at Sterling Vineyards in Napa Valley. From that starting…
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Céline Fontaine
Chassagne-Montrachet, France
Céline Fontaine has been winemaker at Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard in Chassagne-Montrachet, France, from 2007 to the present. At a family estate, the work is as much about continuity…
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Chantal Forthun
Sebastopol, California, United States
## The Path At California State University, Chico (2005), the groundwork was technical: a foundation that fed directly into cellar and harvest roles where analysis and repetition…
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Charles F. Smith III
St. Helena, California, United States
"I followed my brother into the business. It was a hobby that got completely out of control." In wine, that kind of line usually means years of repetition have stripped away the…
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Charles Hopkins
Cape Town, South Africa
At De Grendel Wine Estate in Cape Town, South Africa, cellar work under Charles Hopkins has been built around the small, consequential decisions that turn fruit into finished…
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Chris Carter
Philo, California, United States
## The Climb Aviation discipline reads through the structure of Chris Carter's route into wine: a family of professional pilots, a habit of calibration, and an early instinct for…
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Chris Figgins
Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Chris Figgins’s work at Figgins Family Wine Estates in Walla Walla, United States, is built around a vineyard-first view of winemaking: the estate, the fruit, and the place carry…
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Chris Kajani
Napa, California, United States
## Today At Bouchaine Vineyards in Napa, the work sits at the point where vineyard decisions and cellar decisions meet. Chris Kajani serves as President and Winemaker there, and…
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Chris Mullineux
Franschhoek, South Africa
The turn in 2007 was geographic and technical: after leaving Tulbagh Mountain Vineyards, Mullineux chose the Swartland, at Riebeek Kasteel, South Africa, for an independent…
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Chris Pearmund
Broad Run, Virginia, United States
Chris Pearmund owns and makes wine at Pearmund Cellars in Broad Run, Virginia. The work there sits at the center of a career built across service, production, consulting,…
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Christina Artner-Netzl
Göttlesbrunn, Austria
Christina Artner-Netzl moved early into the working realities of wine beyond Austria, taking an internship with an importer in London. For a trade that is shaped as much by market…
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Christoforos Pavlidis
Drama, Greece
Christoforos Pavlidis makes wine at Ktima Pavlidis under a simple working rule: great wine should reflect terroir, vintage and personality. That puts the emphasis on restraint…
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Christoph Körner
Falkenstein, Austria
A Weinviertel native, Christoph Körner is tied to the formation of the New Weinviertel Style through a career that stays close to one estate, one region, and Grüner Veltliner. In…
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Christoph Polz
Spielfeld, Austria
Christoph Polz has been winemaker and responsible for the cellar at Weingut Erich & Walter Polz in Spielfeld, Southern Styria, Austria, since 2011. The work is defined by cellar…
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Christophe Philippe
Paris, France
Amarante in Paris works a plain register: fat, heat, innards, and restraint. The cooking associated with Christophe Philippe does not soften its materials for easy approval. Meat…
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Christopher Richard Stein
Paris, France
## Beginnings Oxfordshire gives Christopher Richard Stein’s biography its first fixed point: British nationality, county origin, and a starting place that grounds the rest of the…
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Christopher Tynan
Yountville, California, United States
Christopher Tynan has been Director of Winemaking at Cliff Lede Vineyards in Yountville, United States, since 2012, a role built on cellar repetition, gradual responsibility, and…
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Chuck Reininger
Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Before wine, Chuck Reininger’s training moved between the classroom and the mountains: the University of Puget Sound, UC Davis, and work as a mountaineering guide on Mt. Rainier.…
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Clarissa Nagy
Santa Maria, California, United States
## The Climb Training in Food Science at California Polytechnic State University gave Clarissa Nagy a technical base before cellar work took over. She entered the trade as a Lab…
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Clay Mauritson
Healdsburg, California, United States
Clay Mauritson’s work sits at the point where label, place, and family line meet. In Healdsburg and across Sonoma County, his name is attached to Mauritson Wines and Mauritson…
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Cody Hurd
St. Helena, California, United States
Cody Hurd’s work at Priest Ranch is built around a simple winemaking principle: the wine should show what the property can already do. In that framework, the cellar is not a place…
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Col McBryde
Clare Valley, Australia
Since 2002, Col McBryde has been winemaker at Adelina Wines in Clare Valley, Australia, a role that suits a practice built on patience, accuracy, and attention to how wine is made…
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Corlea Fourie
Wellington, New Zealand
Head of Wine and Viticulture at Bosman Family Vineyards in Wellington, South Africa, Corlea Fourie works across vineyard and cellar as a single system. The job asks for both…
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Corrina Wright
McLaren Vale, Australia
## Where They Are Now Oenology training in 1994 placed Corrina Wright in the technical end of wine first: fermentation, texture, structure, and the discipline of working from what…
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Corry Craighill
Greenwood, Virginia, United States
The work is estate-driven and low-intervention: small-batch wines, made with an eye on site, season, and timing. Corry Craighill also makes wine for several other small Virginia…
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Cosme Hernandez
San Baltazar Guelavila, Mexico
Cosme Hernandez works as the master mezcal maker for Convite in San Baltazar Guelavila, Mexico, and that role keeps the craft tied to a single place, a single palenque, and a…
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Costa Lazaridi
Drama, Greece
Costa Lazaridi founded Domaine Costa Lazaridi in Drama, Greece, in 1979, and that founding still anchors the work. In wine terms, the story is one of continuity: a single estate,…
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Craig Becker
St. Helena, California, United States
We’re really showcasing what brought Napa its fame and international notoriety,” Craig Becker says, and the line lands as craft statement rather than slogan. The work here is…
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Craig Stoller
Paso Robles, California, United States
## Coming Up Training in horticulture at Cal Poly gave Craig Stoller a formal framework for work that had already started in the field. Raised among wine grapes at Sunridge…
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Cristina Domenis
Cividale del Friuli, Italy
She leads production as the fourth generation of the Domenis family, with Cristina Domenis’s work grounded in the day-to-day demands of the distillery and in a focus on product…
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Cristóbal Undurraga Marimón
Colchagua, Chile
Cristóbal Undurraga Marimón works at the intersection of biodynamics and terroir-led winemaking at Viña Koyle in Colchagua, Chile. His technical direction is framed by a pursuit…
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Csaba Koch
Borota, Hungary
## Coming Up Training at the Hungarian Wine Academy gave Csaba Koch the technical base that shows up in his work: tasting discipline, patience, and a measured approach to cellar…
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Csaba Malatinszky
Villány, Hungary
## Coming Up Restaurant service was the first discipline. As sommelier at several of Budapest’s top restaurants from 1990, Csaba Malatinszky worked in a setting that demanded…
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Csaba Sebestyén
Szekszárd, Hungary
His cellar aim is plain: wines with more refinement, less oak, and grape character pushed to the front. In Csaba Sebesty’s case, that gives the work a clean, almost structural…
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Csaba Vesztergombi
Szekszárd, Hungary
The cellar is read through its named wines: Csaba Cuvée, Vesztergombi Kadarka, and Vesztergombi Kerékhegy Shiraz 2017. The flagship blend has two gold medals behind it, which…
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Curtis Hascall
Paso Robles, California, United States
## Career Curtis Hascall’s work is built on two fixed points: Cal Poly State University, where he trained, and Paso Robles, where his cellar practice took shape. The line from one…
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Daï Shinozuka
Paris, France
Bistro cooking at Les Enfants Rouges is handled through apprenticeship discipline, service repetition, and the working tempo of those kitchens. In Daï Shinozuka’s hands, the…
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Dallas Parnigoni
Paso Robles, California, United States
## Coming Up Rhône-style cellar work at Alta Colina Winery in Paso Robles, California, is where Dallas Parnigoni landed in 2025, bringing a background built through vineyard…
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Damian Grindley
Paso Robles, California, United States
## Coming Up Training at University of Reading and University of Adelaide gave Damian Grindley a framework built on discipline, context, and repetition — the kind of base that…
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Damien Rafferty
Belfast, United Kingdom
## The Climb At Titanic Distillers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Damien Rafferty’s route into the stillhouse reflects a cross-disciplinary grounding rather than a…
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Damon Koerner
Clare Valley, Australia
Damon Koerner’s work sits in the overlap between vineyard and cellar, with the raw material carrying as much weight as the finished wine. In Clare Valley, Australia, and across…
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Dan Bissell
Penn Yan, New York, United States
## Today Cellar discipline sits at the center of Dan Bissell’s work, built first in the day-to-day demands of fermentation, timing, and attention to detail as Assistant Winemaker…
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Dan Dooling
Point Arena, California, United States
## Coming Up Winegrowing in Dan Dooling’s case was built from work that paid in hours, not applause: a waterfront teamster, a truck driver in the family trucking business, then…
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Dan Standish
Barossa Valley, Australia
Dan Standish makes wine at The Standish Wine Co in Barossa Valley, Australia, with a brief built around Single-vineyard Shiraz and Shiraz Viognier from old, dry-grown vines. The…
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Daniel Estrin
Salem, Germany
Daniel Estrin has served as winemaker and vineyard manager at Cristom Vineyards in Salem, Oregon, since 2019, a position that ties the cellar directly to the work of the vines.…
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Daniel Hernandez
San Baltazar Guelavila, Mexico
## The Path Behind the bar, Daniel Hernandez’s first years in one of Aruba's best seafood restaurant in Aruba (2008–2012) were built on timing, composure, and reading service…
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Dániel Konyári
Balatonlelle, Hungary
## The Path Winemaking at Konyári Winery has been Dániel Konyári’s work since 2003, and the value of that long tenure is familiarity with a single site rather than distance from…
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Daniele Salvo
Beijing, China
Daniele Salvo is co-founder and manager of Bottega in Shanghai, China. From Naples, the birthplace of pizza, he has carried with him a deep-rooted reverence for the craft, shaping…
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Danny Hernandez
Sisterdale, Texas, United States
Danny Hernandez is the winemaker at Sister Creek Vineyards in Sisterdale, and the work is anchored in years on the same Texas Hill Country property before wine defined its…
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Daric Schlesselman
Brooklyn, New York, United States
The work has been about continuity as much as authorship: building a distillery in Brooklyn and keeping its methods tied to the practical pace of daily production. ## Coming Up…
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Dave McGee
Paso Robles, California, United States
## The Climb At Stanford University and University of California, Davis, Dave McGee picked up the academic frame that later shaped the cellar work: structure, observation, and…
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Dave Phinney
Oakville, California, United States
## At a Glance - Current role: winemaker, Stanton Vineyards, 2002–present. - Place: Oakville, United States. - Craft: winemaking. In Oakville, the work at Stanton Vineyards,…
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Dave Reilly
Driftwood, Texas, United States
Dave Reilly has guided winemaking at Duchman Family Winery in Driftwood, United States, since 2008 and serves as Head Winemaker. Over that span, his name has become attached to a…
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David Arthur Long
St. Helena, California, United States
## Coming Up That kind of start matters in wine: it trains the eye for repetition, timing, and the discipline of making something that holds up over time. By 1985, that working…
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David Brown
St. Helena, California, United States
## Coming Up The work begins in systems: refrigeration and air conditioning engineering at Beaumont Medical and System Air gave David Brown a trade grounded in precision,…
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David Brutocao
Hopland, California, United States
David Brutocao leads the Winemaking Operations at Brutocao Cellars in Hopland, California. The work centers on the full Brutocao portfolio, with time-honored, minimally invasive…
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David Connolly
Beijing, China
David Connolly’s work sits at the intersection of kitchen leadership, business operations, and editorial fluency, with Beijing running through the center of that path. The city is…
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David Cronin
St. Helena, California, United States
David Cronin has been winemaker at Buehler Vineyards in St. Helena, United States, since 1993. The work there turns on Cabernet Sauvignon, a grape he treats as an adaptable…
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David Duncan
Geyserville, California, United States
## The Path In wine leadership, continuity is a craft of its own. David Duncan’s early appointment as president and CEO at Silver Oak Cellars marked the start of a long period of…
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David Eakle
Pope Valley, California, United States
David Eakle is owner and vintner of Pope Valley Winery in Pope Valley, United States, and the work reads like a long, continuous fit between person and place. Vineyard labor sits…
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David Graves
Napa, California, United States
## The Path At Saintsbury Winery, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Carneros became part of the house identity under David Graves after he co-founded the winery in Napa County,…
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David Guimaraens
Pinhão, Portugal
David Guimaraens has been Technical Director and Head Winemaker at The Fladgate Partnership since 1991, working inside a house that treats winemaking and blending as one…
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David Hunt
Paso Robles, California, United States
## The Path The house style at Hunt Cellars is the throughline in David Hunt’s career: he worked there first as winemaker, then moved into the owner role. That kind of continuity…
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David Jelinek
St. Helena, California, United States
David Jelinek is winemaker at Faust in St. Helena, United States, a post that places his work inside one of Napa Valley’s most closely watched reads on place and style. ## Coming…
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David Merfeld
Walla Walla, Washington, United States
## The Climb Fermentation is the throughline in David Merfeld’s work, with beer and wine giving him two sides of the same technical discipline. He trained at University of…
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David Parrish
Paso Robles, California, United States
At Parrish Family Vineyard in Paso Robles, United States, the work begins with land and material before it becomes wine. ## The Place At Parrish Family Vineyard in Paso Robles,…
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David Sadie
Swartland, South Africa
Born and bred in the Swartland, David Sadie came up with the region’s light, heat, and wind as baseline conditions, and his work has stayed attached to that register. Viticulture…
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David Whiting
Hector, New York, United States
David Whiting is president of Red Newt Cellars in Hector, the winery he founded in 1998. The relationship between maker and place is direct here: he helped establish the cellar,…
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David Whittaker
Sydney, Australia
His work sits at the point where ownership, engineering discipline and production leadership meet inside one spirits business. That combination gives David Whittaker’s role a…
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Dawnine Dyer
Napa, California, United States
## The Climb At Domaine Chandon in Oakville / Yountville, Napa Valley, California (1976–2000), the cellar provided the discipline that shaped Dawnine Dyer’s early winemaking…
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Denis Chevillon
Nuits-Saint-Georges, France
Denis Chevillon’s work is rooted in the measured routines of Domaine Robert Chevillon in Nuits-Saint-Georges, where vineyard care and cellar decisions depend on restraint, timing,…
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Derek Flegal
Oakville, California, United States
## Coming Up Assistant winemaking at Tamber Bey Vineyards in Oakville, California, United States gave Derek Flegal a first-order view of cellar discipline. The focus on Cabernet…
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Derrek Vipond
Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Along the line from study to cellar work to bottling, the craft tightens: technical training first, then repetition, then a named wine that carries the current chapter forward. ##…
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Diana Eakle-Hawkins
Pope Valley, California, United States
Diana Eakle-Hawkins works from the practical side of wine-country operations, where vineyard timing, estate logistics, and daily coordination all have to hold together. At Pope…
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Dick Erath
Dundee, Oregon, United States
Dick Erath founded Erath Winery in Dundee, United States, in 1968, and in doing so helped establish a foothold for Oregon wine inside the state’s wider history. The work began in…
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Dick Shea
Newberg, Oregon, United States
Dick Shea’s Oregon work sits inside the basics of winegrowing: tending vines, working a cellar, and staying close enough to the land to read the season as it changes. At Shea Wine…
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Didier Fornerol
Corgoloin, France
His craft was first shaped at home, under his father’s guidance, where vineyard work and cellar discipline were learned as connected tasks rather than separate worlds. Didier…
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Diego Spinoglio
Las Piedras, Uruguay
Architectural training is part of the craft here: Diego Spinoglio moved from Uruguay’s grapevines into architecture, then back to Bodega Spinoglio in Montevideo, Uruguay, to take…
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Dimitris Steinhauer
Athens, Greece
Dimitris Steinhauer is the winemaker behind Skinos Mastiha Spirit, the mastiha spirit from Greek Spirit Co. The brief is narrow and legible: shape one Greek spirit for one named…
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Dominique Portet
Yarra Valley, Australia
## The Essentials Wine work here is framed as a balance between cellar practice and the way a winery actually functions day to day. Dominique Portet’s focus has sat in that…
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Don Burns
Paso Robles, California, United States
## The Climb At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, ag-business gave Don Burns the practical framework that still shows up in his winemaking: work the site, respect the fruit, keep the…
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Don Pullum
Pontotoc, Texas, United States
## The Climb Winemaking is the science of art and the art of science, and Don Pullum’s work is built on that balance. The discipline asks for measurement, judgment, and timing in…
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Don Schroeder
Santa Ynez, California, United States
Don Schroeder has been winemaker at Sea Smoke in Lompoc, California, since 2008, a role that reflects a career shaped in Santa Barbara County and the Santa Rita Hills. The work…
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Dorottya Bussay
Csörnyeföld, Hungary
Dorottya Bussay has been head winemaker at Bussay Pince in Csörnyeföld since 2014, the year she took over the winery and began shaping its wines with a steady hand and a quiet…
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Doug Lewis
Johnson City, Texas, United States
Doug Lewis is co-owner and winemaker of Lewis Wines in Johnson City, United States, a Texas label built on the argument that vineyard work sets the terms for the finished wine. A…
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Doug Margerum
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Doug Margerum has spent a career building Santa Barbara’s wine identity from the inside out—first in hospitality, then in winemaking, and always through ownership, founding, and…
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Doug Stewart
Boonville, California, United States
Doug Stewart is the winemaker at Lichen Estate in Boonville, and that title matters here because the route into the cellar was built outside family wine trade. Sonoma was the…
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Drake Whitcraft
Santa Barbara, California, United States
In Santa Barbara, Drake Whitcraft’s winemaking at Whitcraft Winery is defined less by rhetoric than by the discipline required to keep a winery solvent long enough for the work to…
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Duncan Kennedy
McLaren Vale, Australia
McLaren Vale is the working ground for Duncan Kennedy: Shiraz, Grenache, old vines, heavy timber, and the slow pressure of a basket press. In that setting, the cellar matters as…
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Duncan Killiner
Piriápolis, Uruguay
His work is shaped by a vineyard that takes the Atlantic head-on: “This is the very south face of our vineyard.” The site is described with plain geographic clarity by Duncan…
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Earl Ninsom
Portland, Oregon, United States
## The Climb Restaurant ownership, in Earl Ninsom’s case, reads as a craft of accumulation: training, repetition, and enough persistence to turn one room into a long run of work.…
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Eastwood family
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Four generations of Eastwood women have shaped Eastwood Farm & Winery in Charlottesville, Virginia, and that continuity shows up in the way the operation is run: practical,…
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Ed Donovan
Hopland, California, United States
Ed Donovan makes wine at Boonville Road Wines in Mendocino County, California, United States, with the work kept close to the table and close to the land. His own shorthand for…
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Ed Sbragia
Geyserville, California, United States
## The Climb Training in chemistry gave Ed Sbragia a working start in wine: University of California, Davis and California State University, Fresno led into research chemist work…
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Ede Tiffán
Villány, Hungary
Ede Tiffán’s name is tied to a Villány cellar work built around scale, structure and polish. At Tiffán Ede Winery, the top blend of Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot…
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