The People · Page 57
The artisans of taste.
Winemaker
Edgar Ángeles
Santa Catarina Minas, Mexico
Edgar Ángeles works as maestro palenquero at Real Minero in Santa Catarina Minas, Mexico, where clay, fire, and fermenting agave are part of the daily grammar of the place. In…
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Edgar Gonzalez Ramirez
San Cristóbal Lachirioag, Mexico
Edgar Gonzalez Ramirez makes mezcal and aguardiente de caña under the Dakabend label at Mezcal Tosba in San Cristóbal Lachirioag, Oaxaca, Mexico. The work sits inside the local…
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Edgar Torres
Paso Robles, California, United States
## The Path Training in Culinary school in Cancún gave Edgar Torres the base line; what followed was a working education across front and back of house. He started as a waiter at…
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Edmond Borit
Maldonado, Uruguay
Edmond Borit brought a Peruvian formation into Uruguayan wine through Bodega Sacromonte in Maldonado, where the line from Universidad del Pacífico to a named viticultural project…
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Edoardo Peloni
Bormio, Italy
## The Path Master distillation at Braulio is a custodial role as much as a technical one, and Edoardo Peloni occupies it as the current point of continuity for the house. The…
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Édouard Lepesme
Vaux, France
## The Path Before Édouard Lepesme entered the cellar, the trade taught him wine from the outside in. Until 2011, he worked as a marketing and commercial specialist in the wine…
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Eduard Tscheppe
Oggau, Austria
Eduard Tscheppe works in natural wine through the discipline of a Technical Winemaker, with the co-founder role at Gut Oggau Winery in Burgenland, Austria giving that work its…
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Eduardo 'Lalo' Ángeles
Santa Catarina Minas, Mexico
## The Path At Real Minero, fourth-generation master distilling was the baseline, and Eduardo 'Lalo' Ángeles worked there until 2014 under that kind of inherited discipline. The…
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Eduardo Orendain
Tequila, Mexico
## The Essentials Since 2013, Eduardo Orendain has served as director of sales and marketing at Arette Tequila, sitting in the practical space where category discipline meets…
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Edward Wallo
Yorkville, California, United States
Edward Wallo is the winemaker of Yorkville Cellars in Yorkville, and that role defines the estate’s working style. As founder, winegrower, and winemaker, he has built Yorkville…
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Ehren Jordan
St. Helena, California, United States
## The Climb Ehren Jordan’s cellar training sits at the intersection of formal study and fieldwork. Vintage pressure and the daily grind of harvest shaped that period, and his own…
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Elena Brooks
McLaren Vale, Australia
Elena Brooks works at Dandelion Vineyards in McLaren Vale, where the winemaking sits within a label known for wines across South Australian regions. Her name is tied to a style…
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Elisa Ludeña
San Bartolomé (Lanzarote), Spain
## The Climb That education sits behind a practice shaped by precision and place, where the brief is not only to make wine, but to respond to what vineyard, vintage, and…
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Elsa Picard
Achinos, Greece
Elsa Picard leads winemaking at La Tour Melas in Achinos, Greece, where Technical Director and Head Winemaker are not separate titles so much as a single mandate over method. An…
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Chef
Emil Eshardt-Nielsen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Chief Financial Officer at Norrlyst Koncernen in Copenhagen since 2024 is the position that now frames Emil Eshardt-Nielsen’s work. It puts hospitality practice in direct contact…
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Emilio Rodríguez Canas
O Rosal, Spain
## The Climb Training at the University of Santiago de Compostela gave Emilio Rodríguez Canas a technical base that shows up in the way his work is structured: disciplined,…
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Emily McNally
Heathcote, Australia
## At a Glance Natural acid management defines the house style here: Emily McNally says, “I don’t add acid out of a bag. This is all natural.” At Jasper Hill in Heathcote,…
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Emily Pelton
Afton, Virginia, United States
## Coming Up Training at Virginia Tech gave Emily Pelton a technical base for work that depends on repeatable decisions in the cellar and a steady read on fruit, structure, and…
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Emma Kudritzki Hall
Yorkville, California, United States
Winemaking here is built on repetition: study, cellar time, vineyard work, and the patience to turn each vintage into a clear read on fruit and place. Emma Kudritzki Hall’s path…
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Emma Wood
McLaren Vale, Australia
## The Climb Emma Wood’s work at Penfolds came first, in a senior winemaking role that placed her inside one of the industry’s most closely watched cellars. That setting required…
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Emmett Reed
Cloverdale, California, United States
## Career Winemaking at Laurentia Vineyard and Winery in Madison, Ohio, United States, since 2022 has placed Emmett Reed in the working seam between vineyard and cellar, where…
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Eric Dunham
Walla Walla, Washington, United States
His work in wine comes out of the disciplined cadence of the U.S. Navy and into Cabernet, where Eric Dunham set a clear aim: "I want to make wine." That kind of directness matters…
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Eric Manz
Weinolsheim, Germany
Eric Manz is the winemaker of Weingut Eric Manz in Weinolsheim, Germany. The work is easy to place: one maker, one named house, one village. That kind of alignment is useful in…
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Eric Miller
Healdsburg, California, United States
## The Climb Wine education at Purdue University gave Eric Miller the base to move from classroom theory into vineyard and cellar practice. That training shows up in a career…
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Eric Ogorsolka
Paso Robles, California, United States
## The Path Wine training at the University of California, Davis gave Eric Ogorsolka the technical base for a career built step by step. A part-time job at Wild Horse Winery in…
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Eric Titus
St. Helena, California, United States
Eric Titus serves as General Manager and Vineyard Operations Manager at Titus Vineyards in St. Helena, California, United States, a post that sits at the overlap of vineyard work…
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Eric Weisinger
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States
Eric Weisinger works in winegrowing and winemaking at Signor Vineyards in Fredericksburg, United States, where the work depends on patience, precision, and a steady sense of…
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Erich Andert
Pamhagen, Austria
As contact person for Andert-Wein in Pamhagen, Austria, Erich Andert works inside a biodynamic frame that treats soil, season, cellar, and lunar timing as production variables…
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Erik Manz
Weinolsheim, Germany
Erik Manz is chef at Weingut Eric Manz in Rheinhessen, and the role is defined by a directness that matches the work. The title stays plain: chef, venue, place. That clarity…
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Ernst Storm
Los Olivos, California, United States
In Santa Barbara County, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc are the clearest tools in Ernst Storm’s kit. At Storm Wines in Los Olivos, the wines are shaped with old world influence…
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Eszterbauer family
Szekszárd, Hungary
The Eszterbauer family tends Eszterbauer Winery in Szekszárd, Hungary, as a tradition-based wine company, with the emphasis on continuity rather than reinvention. The work reads…
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Etienne de Brechard
Puligny-Montrachet, France
## The Path Since 2012, the work at Chapelle de Blagny has placed Etienne de Brechard between vineyard and cellar, where estate decisions are shaped by the pace of a Burgundian…
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Ettore Biraghi
Ascona, Switzerland
Ettore Biraghi’s work is built on a steady move from vineyard floor to cellar oversight, with each step adding responsibility without changing the basic line of the craft. Born in…
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Eugenio Belli
Meda, Italy
Eugenio Belli is Master Distiller at Eugin Distilleria Indipendente in Meda, Italy. The work there is concentrated rather than scattered: a distillery founded in 2018, and a…
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Eva Fernandez
Pesquera de Duero, Spain
Eva Fernandez is the winemaker at ALEVA, and the work sits squarely in the long cycle of vineyard rhythm, cellar decisions, and the slow shaping of a house style over time. ## The…
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Fabio Parziano
Catania, Italy
The bottle under Fabio Parziano has stayed rooted in Sicily, but the brief around it has widened. What was once read mainly as an after-dinner amaro now has a second life in the…
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Chef
Facundo Kelemen
Buenos Aires, Argentina
## The Climb Line-by-line kitchen work has marked Facundo Kelemen’s development: IAG gave him the base, then Naná in Vicente López, Tegui, and restaurants in New York (stages) in…
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Federico Bolaños
San Salvador, El Salvador
Federico Bolaños is a specialty-coffee professional, barista, roaster and educator who founded Alquimia Coffee. A coffee professional since the mid-2000s, he is known for training…
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Federico Veronesi
Ostra Vetere, Italy
Federico Veronesi’s work sits in executive leadership, with Oniwines and Villa Bucci as the two current posts that define his remit. In both roles, the craft is management at…
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Felipe Camarena
Jesús María, Mexico
## The Climb Felipe Camarena holds two roles at El Pandillo in Jesús María, Mexico: winemaker of El Pandillo (G4) and master tequilero of El Pandillo Distillery. The work sits on…
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Felipe Müller
Ovalle, Chile
## The Climb Since 2006, Felipe Müller has served as winemaker at Viña Tabalí, a post that sits at the center of the winery’s coastal identity. The work reads as site-based…
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Felipe Ramirez
Maule, Chile
His reputation in Maule has been built in cellar work at Nativa and Bouchon, where Felipe Ramirez moved through head-winemaker roles before becoming chief winemaker at Bouchon…
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Félix Pavone Arbea
Isla de Maipo, Chile
Félix Pavone Arbea founded Viña Santa Ema in Isla de Maipo, Chile, in 1956, and that remains the central fact of his place in Chilean wine. With his father, Pedro Pavone, he…
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Ferenc Takler
Szekszárd, Hungary
Ferenc Takler’s work is Takler Winery in Szekszárd. Founded in 1987, the winery frames that kind of practice: continuity matters, and the measure of the work is not only a single…
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Wine luminary
Fergal Tynan
McLaren Vale, Australia
Fergal Tynan’s career is built on formal study, trade-floor experience, and senior responsibility. The through-line is accumulation: wine knowledge first, then the commercial…
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Fernando Chivite
Aberín, Spain
Fernando Chivite’s work sits at the meeting point of wine education and house leadership. From Aberín, Spain, he served as president of Bodegas Chivite from 2007 to 2011, a role…
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Florence Bouchard
Bissey-sous-Cruchaud, France
## Coming Up Training at Lycée Viticole de Beaune and INSEEC Bordeaux gave Florence Bouchard the technical base for work that moved across France’s wine regions—Provence,…
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Floriane Eznack
Grafschaft, Germany
Floriane Eznack came to wine through cellar work and the daily mechanics of the trade. Born in the Cognac area of France, she built her reputation through the routines of…
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Francesco Caselli
Modena, Italy
Francesco Caselli directs Distilleria Caselli in Sassuolo, Modena, Italy, where the work is shaped by a line of production that began with an original grocery store in 1860. In…
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Francesco Fabris
Conegliano, Italy
## The Path At Distilleria Andrea Da Ponte, Francesco Fabris works in grappa and distillates from Conegliano, Italy, with the family line kept close to the stills. His own framing…
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Francesco Mazzei
Castellina in Chianti, Italy
The craft here is a narrowing of focus: Sangiovese, winemaking, and the cellar decisions that determine how a place registers in the glass. Francesco Mazzei’s work reads as…
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Francesco Ricasoli
Gaiole in Chianti, Italy
Francesco Ricasoli has owned and served as president of Barone Ricasoli in Gaiole in Chianti, Italy, since 1993. That year marked a shift from advertising photography to full-time…
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Francisco Carrau
Las Piedras, Uruguay
Francisco Carrau is owner and winemaker at Bodega Carrau. The work brings together laboratory precision, academic inquiry, and the slower, sensory demands of wine production. In…
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Franco Ziliani
Corte Franca, Italy
Franco Ziliani works at the intersection of two major Italian wine forms: Bolgheri red and Franciacorta sparkling. At Caccia Al Piano in Castagneto Carducci, Italy, his name is…
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François Lurton
Mendoza, Argentina
François Lurton defines the job in the most practical terms: winegrowing. The aim, as he puts it, is simple — to express the terroir. That places the work where it belongs: in the…
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Frank Meaker
Swartland, South Africa
A Merlot specialist with a quietly analytical approach, Frank Meaker has built his work around the small variables that decide how a wine reads in bottle: clone, site, and the…
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Chef
Frank Ostini
Casmalia, California, United States
Frank Ostini has built a career around fire management, cellar work, and restaurant discipline, bringing Santa Maria-style barbecue and winemaking into the same working frame. At…
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Franz Stelzl
St. Johann im Saggautal, Austria
# Franz Stelzl Feindestillerie Stelzl — Feindestillerie Stelzl (St. Johann im Saggautal, Austria) | We are proud to be able to offer and deliver our customers only first-class,…
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Franz Weninger
Horitschon, Austria
## Career Blaufränkisch is the grape that defines Franz Weninger’s work, and he approaches it with the steadiness that comes from long familiarity rather than display. The aim is…
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Fraser McKinley
Barossa Valley, Australia
## The Work Today Fraser McKinley trained at Auckland before moving into cellar work as a winemaking apprentice at Torbreck and the Standish Wine Co. That sequence matters in…
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Fred Brander
Santa Ynez, California, United States
## Coming Up Sauvignon Blanc is the reference point in Fred Brander’s work, and the grape is where his name has been most firmly established. He treats it as a variety that…
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Fred Zmarzly
Hopland, California, United States
## The Climb Precision from engineering carries cleanly into vineyard work, and Fred Zmarzly’s route into wine shows that overlap plainly. Santa Clara College, aerospace…
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Frederick Ammons
Oakville, California, United States
## Coming Up Study at the University of Bordeaux came before cellar and harvest work in California, and that order matters here: Frederick Ammons’ early training was followed by a…
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Fritz Wieninger
Vienna, Austria
## The Climb At Weingut Fritz Wieninger in Vienna, Austria, work since 1987 has given Fritz Wieninger a long, continuous run in the city’s winemaking record. The throughline is…
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Gábor Harsányi
Sárospatak, Hungary
## The Path Since 2012, head of the estate at Harsányi Winery has meant long-term oversight of the vineyard and the daily work that keeps an estate aligned with its site. In Gábor…
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Gábor Riesz
Somlóvásárhely, Hungary
## The Path At Fekete Pince Somló, the business and sales side gave Gábor Riesz a working view of the estate before he took on cellar responsibility in 2017. That earlier role…
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Gabriel Pisano
Canelones, Uruguay
From the Uruguayan Vine & Wine School to cellars in South Africa, California, Chile and Spain, Gabriel Pisano’s route reads as a working map of cellar practice before returning to…
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Gabriele Rausse
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
## The Climb Virginia wine took shape through long, incremental work, and Gabriele Rausse was part of that early discipline. At Barboursville Vineyards, where he began as…
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Gál Tibor Jr
Eger, Hungary
Gál Tibor Jr works in Eger with a clear brief: make wines that carry the region’s older codes without treating them as fixed. At Gál Tibor Winery, his approach is framed as…
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Gareth Belton
Adelaide Hills, Australia
## Coming Up Since 2013, founder and winemaker Gareth Belton has built Gentle Folk in Adelaide Hills, Australia around a plain method: farm well, handle the wine carefully, and…
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Gary Burk
Santa Maria, California, United States
Gary Burk’s work in wine came through a set of unrelated disciplines, not a single fixed path. Since 2002, Costa de Oro Winery in Santa Maria has been the constant in that mix,…
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Gavin Chanin
Lompoc, California, United States
Gavin Chanin is the winemaker of Chanin Wine Co. The work sits on a direct line between vineyard selection, bottling under his own name, and the long run of wines that have come…
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Gelert Hart
Templeton, California, United States
## The Climb At AmByth Estate in Templeton, United States, biodynamic winegrowing is the framework, and Gelert Hart has worked within it as winemaker and viticulturist since 2015.…
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George Unti
Healdsburg, California, United States
## Coming Up Vineyard work is the frame for George Unti’s practice: the long view, the seasonal repeat, and the discipline of reading a site over time. At San Jose State…
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Gerald Hochstrasser
Mooskirchen, Austria
His approach is built on restraint, precision, and a refusal to compromise. For Gerald Hochstrasser, scale is secondary to care: in small runs, quality control is tighter, every…
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Chef
Géraldine Laubrières
Orcines, France
## The Path Training at Lycée hôtelier de Chamalières gave Géraldine Laubri the formal base behind the work at Auberge de la Baraque in Orcines. Raised in Auvergne, she says her…
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Ghislain de Charnacé
Bormes-les-Mimosas, France
## The Essentials In Bellet, barrel use for white wines became part of Ghislain de Charnacé’s profile in the early 1990s. It was a precise cellar choice, and one of the first of…
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Chef
Gianni Hendrickx
Mount Mulligan, Australia
Born in Lier, Belgium, Gianni Hendrickx came into the trade through family kitchens, where cooking was already tied to routine, attention and usefulness. Before any professional…
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Giles Cooke
McLaren Vale, Australia
## The Climb Sales, marketing, and buying at Alliance Wine Company gave Giles Cooke a trade-level view of wine before he moved into making it himself. That background matters in…
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Chef
Gilles Choukroun
Paris, France
## Coming Up Since 2024, the chef post at Baca'v par Gilles Choukroun has carried Gilles Choukroun’s name directly into the room. On paper, it is a simple role; in practice, it is…
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Gilles Nicault
Walla Walla, Washington, United States
In Walla Walla, the work sits at the point where Washington fruit, partner winemakers’ briefs, and cellar decisions meet. Since 2002, Gilles Nicault has held the Director of…
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Giovanni La Fauci
Valdina, Italy
Since 1987, Distilleria Giovi in Valdina has been shaped from the still side by Giovanni La Fauci as Master Distiller. The work began with limited means and a clear objective: “I…
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Girolamo Varnelli
Muccia, Italy
Girolamo Varnelli founded Distilleria Varnelli in Muccia, Italy, in 1868. That founding is the core fact of the house: a named maker establishing a distilling concern in a…
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Chef
Giulio Adriani
Washington DC, Washington DC, United States
Before Giulio Adriani became chef at Slice & Pie in Washington, DC, the work had already been organized around flour handling, oven control, and repetition. The line runs from…
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Winemaker
Glen Hayley
Mornington Peninsula, Australia
Glen Hayley’s work sits in the continuity of two Mornington Peninsula estates: Kooyong and Port Phillip Estate. As chief winemaker, he is responsible for the wines of both houses,…
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Distiller
Graciela Ángeles Carreño
Santa Catarina Minas, Mexico
Graciela Ángeles Carreño’s work in mezcal is grounded in origin as a measurable quality, not a marketing claim. Her operating standard is direct: "Good mezcal, like any good…
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Gray Hartley
Santa Ynez, California, United States
## The Path Commercial fishing set the first discipline. Gray Hartley spent 28 years as a salmon fisherman, including time as captain of a commercial fishing boat in Alaska,…
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Greg Barr
Paso Robles, California, United States
A New Orleanian upbringing puts Greg Barr in a food city where jazz, table culture, and daily rhythm sit close together. That background shows up later in the way the estate is…
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Greg Brewer
Lompoc, California, United States
Greg Brewer’s work in wine is defined by sequence and discipline rather than a straight path. At Brewer-Clifton Winery in Lompoc, his own standard is explicit: “At Brewer-Clifton,…
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Greg Follett
Langhorne Creek, Australia
## The Climb Winemaking at Lake Breeze Wines in Langhorne Creek, Australia asks for consistency before flourish, and Greg Follett has built his position on that kind of work:…
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Greg Graziano
Redwood Valley, California, United States
Mendocino County wine in the Graziano Family of Wines line is built around Classic Italian and unique Old World varietals, with patience and place treated as working constraints…
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Greg Sanders
Dayton, Oregon, United States
The defining turn came in the summer of 2000, when Greg Sanders acquired the 10-acre White Rose Vineyard in Dundee Hills, Oregon. That purchase fixed the work to a specific site…
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Gregory Gouges
Nuits-Saint-Georges, France
## The Path At Domaine Henri Gouges in Nuits-Saint-Georges, Burgundy, France, Gregory Gouges has followed a single-estate path: work at the domaine dates to 2003, and…
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Guido Fini Zarri
Castel Maggiore, Italy
## Coming Up In Castel Maggiore, Italian brandy became the defining material of Guido Fini Zarri’s work. That narrow focus matters: it set the terms for the company he built and…
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Guillaume Drouin
Coudray-Rabut, France
## Coming Up At Christian Drouin company, the line from export work to production management to general management gives Guillaume Drouin a view across the business, not just one…
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Gustavo Pisano
Canelones, Uruguay
He describes the house without ornament, but the scale is built into the sentence: “Our winery is a family business that last year turned 100 years old.” For Bodega Pisano, the…
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György Markovics
Eger, Hungary
György Markovics has worked at Tóth Ferenc Pincészet in Eger, Hungary, since 2009, and the winemaking there carries the imprint of vineyard work done first, not later. Before the…
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Hagen Viljoen
Stellenbosch, South Africa
## The Climb Cellar Master / Winemaker at Zevenwacht Estate is a role built on repetition, timing, and judgment. With Hagen Viljoen in that seat, the work sits at the junction of…
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Chef
Hannes Tschida
Apetlon, Austria
## The Path At Zum fröhlichen Arbeiter, the role of owner and head chef puts Hannes Tschida at the point where dining room pace and kitchen cadence have to meet. The job is not…
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Hans Setzer
Hohenwarth, Austria
His work sits in site-driven winemaking, where restraint is used to keep the vineyard legible: spontaneous fermentation in stainless steel, lees aging, and a stated preference for…
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