The People · Page 95
The artisans of taste.
Winemaker
Frédéric Cossard
Saint-Romain, France
Frédéric Cossard came into wine through trade work rather than inheritance, and that background shows in the way his career reads: milk trade worker, wine merchant, then producer.…
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Frédéric Deladoey
Yvorne, Switzerland
In Yvorne, Switzerland, Frédéric Deladoey’s work is tied to Domaine de l’Ovaille and to wine as the central material. The named releases carry their place plainly: Domaine de…
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Winemaker
Frédéric Garrabou
Gardie, France
## The Climb Viticulture and oenology gave Frédéric Garrabou the two base layers that still govern the work at Domaine Garrabou: how vines are read in the field, and how those…
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Winemaker
Frédéric Jorez
Craon De Ludes, France
From the 2000 handover in Ludes to the chief executive office at Champagne Forget-Brimont in Craon de Ludes, Frédéric Jorez’s work has stayed close to one house and one Champagne…
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Winemaker
Frédéric Le Clerc
Begadan, France
At Château La Tour de By in Bégadan, France, Managing Director Frédéric Le Clerc’s formation runs through family: he is one of Marc Pagès’ grandsons, heir to an estate held by the…
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Frédéric Magnien
Morey-Saint-Denis, France
Born in May 1969 in Burgundy, France, Frédéric Magnien built his practice from family ground, then widened it through work in other wine regions before folding those lessons back…
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Winemaker
Frédéric Malétrez
Chamery, France
The defining fact is unusually direct: one craft, one producer, one place, and a dated tenure that begins in 1982. In a region where lineages, parcels, and cellar philosophies are…
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Chef
Frederic Seweryn
Poole, United Kingdom
Frederic Seweryn has co-owned and operated Guildhall Tavern in Poole, United Kingdom since 2000, working there as Head Chef with a French seafood brief shaped by study in Antibes.…
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Chef
Frederik Bille Brahe
Copenhagen, Denmark
Chef and creative mind at Atelier September in Copenhagen is the role that best captures Frederik Bille Brahe’s work, because the restaurant has been shaped as much by tone and…
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Winemaker
Fredi Marolf
Erlach, Switzerland
## The Climb At Familie Marolf Weinbau in Erlach, Fredi Marolf works where vineyard timing, cellar decisions, and bottling meet. As winemaker, he is the one tying the year’s field…
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Chef
Freek van Noortwijk
Amsterdam, Netherlands
## Coming Up At Restaurant BREDA in Amsterdam, Freek van Noortwijk’s role as executive chef sits inside a kitchen built on restraint. The work is less about layering effects than…
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Winemaker
Friedrich Groebe
Westhofen, Germany
Friedrich Groebe works from Westhofen, Germany, and the estate is the frame for the craft. At Groebe, the vineyard is not just a site of production but the basis of the work…
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Winemaker
Frigyes Bott
Komarno, Slovakia
## The Path Natural wine sets the terms of Frigyes Bott’s work: vineyard decisions, cellar choices, and the way he speaks about them. His register is plain and agricultural, built…
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Winemaker
Fritz Keller
Vogtsburg im Kaiserstuhl, Germany
## At a Glance Klagenfurt, Austria. In Klagenfurt, Austria, Fritz Keller reads as a study in restraint: a profile built on clarity, balance, and a tight sense of place. The effect…
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Winemaker
Fulvio Alifano
Neapel, Italy
Fulvio Alifano has owned Abbazia di Crapolla in Vico Equense, Italy, since founding it in 2007, shaping the estate with a steady, quietly exacting hand. Set against the coastal…
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Fumitaka Takeshita
New York City, New York, United States
Lead chef Fumitaka Takeshita oversees the sushi program at Uogashi in New York City, bringing quiet authority to a role that depends as much on restraint as on flourish. His…
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Chef
Fundim Gjepali
Rome, Italy
Fundim Gjepali works between Rome and Tirana with the kind of steadiness that comes from building a kitchen life on repetition, standards, and control. At Antico Arco in Italy’s…
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Winemaker
FX Pichler
Pinkafeld, Austria
FX Pichler followed in his father's footsteps as a quality-conscious winemaker from an early age, growing into a figure whose name is closely tied to the patient, exacting rhythms…
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Chef
Gabriel Hernandez
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Gabriel Hernandez is executive chef at Verde Mesa in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His public introduction is direct: "My name is Gabriel Hernandez. I am the. I am the chef at Restaurant…
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Chef
Gabriele Bonci
Rome, Italy
Gabriele Bonci owns Panificio Bonci in Rome, Italy, and his defining specialty is pizza al taglio: a format that depends on dough management, timing, and consistency more than on…
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Winemaker
Gabriele Buondonno
Castellina in Chianti, Italy
Gabriele Buondonno is the winemaker of Azienda Agricola Casavecchia alla Piazza in Castellina in Chianti, Italy, where his work has long been shaped by a deep respect for place,…
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Chef
Gabriele Chilovi
New York City, New York, United States
Since his earlier appointments, the work has been defined by pace, precision, and the steady control expected of an Executive Chef at Cipriani Downtown in New York City, United…
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Gabriele Colombo
Dakar, Senegal
Chef Gabriele Colombo of Pizzammore in Dakar comes into focus through a lineage of dough: wood fire, Neapolitan-style structure, proper fermentation, and an Italian table set in…
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James Beard Award winner
Gabriele Corcos
Montauk, New York, United States
Born in Fiesole, Italy, Gabriele Corcos carries his Italian identity into a career rooted in Tuscan cuisine, where memory, technique, and a distinctly sun-warmed sensibility seem…
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Winemaker
Gabriele De Falco
Novoli, Italy
## Career At Cantine De Falco in Novoli, Gabriele De Falco works within a family line that reaches back to 1944. He represents the third generation of the company, and that…
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Winemaker
Gabriele Faravelli
Montecalvo Versiggia, Italy
At Azienda Agricola Faravelli Gabriele in Montecalvo Versiggia (PV), vineyard work and cellar supervision sit together in one job, and Gabriele Faravelli is the person carrying…
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Winemaker
Gabriele Furletti
Riva del Garda, Italy
## The Path Training at the University of Udine gave Gabriele Furletti the technical base for cellar work, before he moved into the role of enologo at an azienda viticola. Since…
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Winemaker
Gabriele Saffirio
Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy
In Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy, the work at Azienda Agricola 499 is organized around vines, fruit, and a cellar kept intentionally quiet. Gabriele Saffirio’s practice is built on…
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Pastry Chef
Gaël Redouté
Saint Malo, France
Ancien cuisinier de formation, Gaël Redouté est aujourd’hui un acteur incontournable de la pâtisserie-chocolaterie bretonne. Passé par de grandes maisons telles que Bernard…
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Winemaker
Gaetano Tomasi
Desenzano del Garda, Italy
Gaetano Tomasi has worked the same ground at Casello Bondoni in Desenzano del Garda since 1990, combining winemaking with ownership at Casello Bondoni Azienda Agricola di Tomasi…
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Winemaker
Galo López Cristóbal
Roa De Duero, Spain
Galo López Cristóbal leads Bodegas López Cristóbal SL as CEO in Roa, Spain. He has also been gerente at Bodegas López Cristóbal since 1998, a long management role inside the same…
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Chef
Gareth Packham
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Gareth Packham is head of ALTO Bar & Grill in Hong Kong. He is also head chef at Bread Street Kitchen & Bar in Hong Kong, a dual role that puts him in a city dining scene shaped…
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Chef
Garrison Price
New York City, New York, United States
## Where They Are Now Italian cooking rewards control: timing, repetition, and a clean finish. Garrison Price has worked inside that register, building a career in kitchens where…
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Chef
Gary MacGurn
Amagansett, New York, United States
Gary MacGurn’s path runs from jars of chutney sold into Hamptons gourmet markets in 1995 to ownership of Hampton Chutney Co. Along the way came a first Hamptons opening in 1997, a…
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Chef
Gary Usher
Chester, United Kingdom
Gary Usher’s account of his early career is simple and direct. ## Coming Up Today, Gary Usher is chef-restaurateur of Sticky Walnut (since 2011), a role that marks the start of…
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Chef
Gary Volkov
New York City, New York, United States
New American cooking at One If By Land, Two If By Sea in New York City was handled through a French-trained frame in Gary Volkov’s work, using local ingredients, travel…
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Winemaker
Gaspard Brochet
Ecueil, France
At the Gaspard Brochet estate in Écueil, France, Gaspard Brochet carries a family thread through Champagne by way of Champagne Vincent Brochet, the house tied to his formation and…
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Chef
Gaston Acurio
Cusco, Peru
He frames cuisine as shared inheritance, with Gaston Acurio describing Peruvian food as something carried through families and homes, then extended outward as part of a wider…
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Chef
Gastón Riveira
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gastón Riveira has been the chef, owner, and founder of La Cabrera (Buenos Aires) since 2002, and the restaurant’s house style has been built around Argentine meat, specific side…
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Chef
Gaurav Anand
New York City, New York, United States
Gaurav Anand has been chef of Moti Mahal Delux in New York City since 2012, bringing a polished, long-viewed approach to Indian cooking that feels rooted in memory yet tuned to…
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Winemaker
Gautier Thévenet
Clesse, France
The work is a long tenure at a single estate: one title, one address, one set of responsibilities. In Gautier Thévenet’s case, continuity is not a backdrop but the structure of…
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Winemaker
Gavin Brand
Vredendal, South Africa
His winemaking is deliberately restrained: "I have a very hands-off approach to winemaking, while at the same time being very aware of what is happening to the wine." That…
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Winemaker
Gavin Bruwer Slabbert
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Gavin Bruwer Slabbert is the winemaker of Bruwer Vintners in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His work at the company keeps winemaking at the center. ## The Path Today, Gavin is…
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Chef
Gen Mizoguchi
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
In Las Vegas, the materials arrive from Japanese waters: seasonal fish, carefully vinegared rice, kanburi toro, and A5 striploin from Miyazaki or Hokkaido moved through salt,…
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James Beard Award winner
Genet Agonafer
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Path The early formation of Genet Agonafer’s cooking came in Kebena, Ethiopia, where the caretaker who looked after her mother also became an early reference point for…
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Chef
Geno Vento
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
A family shop tests succession at the counter, not in the name. “I had a few titles at Geno’s, but when I was at work, I was just another worker, not his son.” In Geno Vento’s…
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Winemaker
Geoffrey Delouvin
Vandieres, France
Geoffrey Delouvin manages the small estate Domaine Delouvin Nowack in Vandières, where the scale of the property seems to keep him in constant conversation with the land itself.…
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Winemaker
Geoffrey Ribeiro
Cussac Fort Medoc, France
Geoffrey Ribeiro is co-owner of Château du Moulin Rouge in Cussac Fort Medoc, France, and the work is the estate itself. As the 13th generation of the family to run the property,…
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Winemaker
Georg Dujmovits
Sulz Im Burgenland, Austria
Georg Dujmovits founded DUJMO.VINO in Sulz im Burgenland, Austria, in 2015, and the project has remained the gravitational center of his professional life ever since. What he…
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Winemaker
Georg Pöchlinger
Mitterarnsdorf, Austria
Georg Pöchlinger is an Austrian winemaker and winegrower, and also a chef at Bio Winzerhof Pöchlinger in Mitterarnsdorf, where the rhythm of the farm shapes both the work and the…
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Chef
George Barson
London, United Kingdom
## The Path George Barson’s career runs through service at River Cottage in Devon, Cora Pearl in Covent Garden, and a long head-chef post at Kitty Fisher’s in Mayfair, London…
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Winemaker
George Măluțan
Carjoaia, Moldova
The working frame here is Cotnari wine in Cârjoaia, Iași County, Romania: a regional structure where cellar practice, oenology, wine expertise, and ownership can sit close…
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Chef
George Padilla
New York City, New York, United States
Formed in Brooklyn hospitality at Okonomi, George Padilla’s work has stayed close to the floor: service translated into a room built around Japanese food, drinks, and shared time…
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Chef
Geovanny Delgado
Los Angeles, California, United States
In Los Angeles, the smash burger is a direct form: grilled beef, melted cheese, smoke, salt, sauce, and a bun built to hold under pressure. At BURGERS 99, where Geovanny Delgado…
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Chef
Gerald Addison
Washington DC, Washington DC, United States
## The Ascent Early kitchen work teaches pace before it teaches authorship. A summer kitchen job at Restaurant Nora in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., gave Gerald Addison that…
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Chef
Gerald Diffey
San Sebastián, Spain
## The Climb At Gruts in Medway, Gerald Diffey was proprietor until 1988, a position that set the tone for a hands-on style of hospitality: present on the floor, accountable in…
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Winemaker
Gérard Bertrand
Narbonne, France
## The Climb Gérard Bertrand’s work in wine is rooted in the Corbières, at Château de Villemajou, where family apprenticeship set the terms for everything that followed. The…
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Gerard Boulay
Chavignol, France
Gerard Boulay works the estate as winemaker in Chavignol, Cher, where continuity is part of the craft itself. The Boulay family has grown grapes there since 1380, and that long…
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Winemaker
Gérard Dorsaz
Fully, Switzerland
Gérard Dorsaz works the family estate at Cave Gérard Dorsaz in Fully, where 5 hectares of terraced vineyard set the frame for his winemaking and winegrowing. The terrain asks for…
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Winemaker
Gérard Jacumin
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France
Before Gérard Jacumin measured a vintage against weather and season, he measured time in finance. He worked in Paris until 1989, and that background brought an exacting discipline…
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Chef
Gerard Jané
El Vendrell, Spain
## The Essentials Recovery and restraint define the cellar here: Gerard Jané has built his work around a patient return to the region’s old red and white varieties, alongside the…
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Winemaker
Gerardo Giuratrabocchetti
Rionero in Vulture, Italy
Gerardo Giuratrabocchetti is the sole administrator and founder of Cantine del Notaio in Rionero in Vulture. He and his wife Marcella founded Cantine del Notaio in 1998 to begin…
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Winemaker
Gerhard Sanin
Kaltern, Italy
Gerhard Sanin is cellar master and winemaker at Erste+Neue in Kaltern (Caldaro), Alto Adige. The work there is built on direct assessment: what the vineyard gives, what it…
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Winemaker
Gerhard Swart
Somerset West, South Africa
## The Path Training at Elsenburg Agricultural College gave Gerhard Swart the base that underpins the rest of the work: process, attention to detail, and the discipline to treat…
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Chef
Germán Fuentes
Santiago, Chile
Germán Fuentes’s record is compact, and the craft story sits in what it does include: formal training at Duoc UC, then kitchen work at Bocanáriz in Santiago. ## Coming Up Training…
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Winemaker
Ghislain Boutemy
Léognan, France
Ghislain Boutemy works within a single estate, where the winemaking is tied to Château Haut-Lagrange in Léognan, France. As winemaker and oenologist, his remit is narrow and…
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Chef
Giacomino Drago
Los Angeles, California, United States
Giacomino Drago is chef at Il Pastaio in Beverly Hills, United States. His public language about the job is concise and guest-first: "I respect my guests and I listen to what they…
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Winemaker
Giacomo Bartolommei
Montalcino, Italy
At Caprili in Montalcino, Italy, Brunello di Montalcino is handled as a working material rather than a fixed emblem: something shaped in silence, measured against time, and kept…
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Chef
Giacomo Hassan
Barcelona, Spain
## The Essentials Modern Pan-Mediterranean tapas sit at the center of Giacomo Hassan’s work, with technique shaped by an Italian base and tested in Barcelona kitchens. Born in…
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Winemaker
Giacomo Neri
Montalcino, Italy
Owner and winemaker at Casanova di Neri in Montalcino, Italy, Giacomo Neri is defined by succession, not spectacle. Since 1991, his work has been shaped by one estate and one…
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Chef
Giacomo Pavesi
Porto San Giorgio, Italy
His presence is not merely managerial; it is woven into the daily rhythm of service, into the welcome at the door, into the particular confidence a dining room can take from…
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Winemaker
Giacomo Rossi
Rovere Della Luna, Italy
Since 2019, Giacomo Rossi has served as winemaker at Cantina Zehnhof in Rovere della Luna, Italy. His winemaking language is tied to cultivation and environmental respect: "La…
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Winemaker
Giacomo Tachis
Calatafimi Segesta, Italy
In Santadi, Sardinia, Carignano in Giacomo Tachis’s later work is treated as material with grain and structure rather than as a simple varietal marker. At Agripunica, that logic…
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Winemaker
Giada Codecasa
Bogogno, Italy
The memory is less a simple origin story than a kind of revelation: a reminder that the landscape can hide its own inheritance in plain sight, waiting for someone to recognize it.…
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Winemaker
Gianluca Battaglio
Vezza D Alba, Italy
Gianluca Battaglio works with Dolcetto Langhe, Barbera d’Alba, Barbaresco and Langhe wines. The estate’s scale is intimate enough for microbatches, including a Battaglio…
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Chef
Gianluca Casali
Formentera, Spain
## The Path At Es Molí de Sal in Formentera, Gianluca Casali moved through a service-led progression that links floor-level discipline to executive responsibility. Before the…
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Winemaker
Gianluca Grasso
Monforte d'Alba, Italy
Winemaker at Azienda Agricola Elio Grasso in Monforte d'Alba, Italy, Gianluca Grasso works from a clear premise that gives his approach both discipline and grace: tradition and…
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Winemaker
Gianluca Morino
Castel Boglione, Italy
## The Path Gianluca Morino trained at Scuola enologica di Alba. That training sits behind a practice shaped by structure and élevage, with Morino arguing that new wood can…
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Winemaker
Gianluca Piernera
Spoleto, Italy
## Coming Up At Cantina Ninni in Spoleto, Italy, Gianluca Piernera works to keep cellar intervention to a minimum. That approach is not a slogan so much as a set of operating…
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Winemaker
Gianluca Terzuoli
Montalcino, Italy
Gianluca Terzuoli is in charge of the estate’s wine production at Azienda Agricola "Santa Giulia" in Montalcino, Italy. As winemaker, his work centers on Brunello di Montalcino…
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Winemaker
Gianmario Cerutti
Cassinasco, Italy
Gianmario Cerutti is the enologist and agronomist at Cerutti in Cassinasco, a professional life shaped by the careful, exacting work of reading vineyards and translating fruit…
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Chef
Gianni Bonaccorsi
Venice, Italy
Chef owner of Il Ridotto in Venice, Italy, Gianni Bonaccorsi holds the title that frames the work: founder of the restaurant, architect of its fine-dining purpose, and the person…
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Winemaker
Gianni Cantele
Guagnano, Italy
## Where It Started The founding of the house gives the career its spine: not a sequence of outside appointments, but a producer built from within and carried forward bottle by…
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Winemaker
Gianni Fiorentino
Paternopoli, Italy
## Where It Started That return gives the wines their first and most revealing context: not expansion for its own sake, but stewardship of a small place with a family name…
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Winemaker
Gianni Vergnano
Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy
Gianni Vergnano founded Cascina Gilli in Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy, in 1983, turning a recognition of the land’s potential into a winery devoted to local grapes. The arc began…
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Winemaker
Gianpaolo Pira
Serralunga d'Alba, Italy
## The Path In Serralunga, Italy, Barolo work is organized around recurrence: vintage return, fruit selection, cellar oversight, maturation, and the decisions that let vineyard…
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Chef
Gigi Paulina Ng
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
## Early Years The line of ownership is the point. At Ser Wong Fun in Hong Kong, Gigi Paulina Ng is the fourth-generation owner, and that position shapes the work as stewardship…
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Winemaker
Gilbert Cordeuil
Noe Les Mallets, France
Gilbert Cordeuil, winemaker at Champagne Cordeuil Père & Fille in Noé-les-Mallets, France, is tied to one plain accolade: Guide Hachette has given three stars to Cordeuil…
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Winemaker, Domaine Felettig
Gilbert Felettig
Chambolle-Musigny, France
The work at Domaine Felettig / Domaine SARL Felettig is defined by a sequence of vineyard and cellar decisions: sustainable farming without herbicides or insecticides, hand…
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Winemaker
Gilles Chabbert
Siran, France
Gilles Chabbert has been the winemaker at Domaine des Aires Hautes in Siran, Hérault, France since 1995, working a family property founded by his grandfather, who was first a…
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Winemaker, Domaine Lafouge
Gilles Lafouge
Auxey Duresses, France
The cellar work and farming at this Auxey-Duresses domaine are built around old vines, careful soil work and traditional methods. In Gilles Lafouge’s terms, the target is shape…
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Winemaker
Gilles Meimoun
Charnay Les Macon, France
Gilles Meimoun’s work sits in commercial direction: reading a market, holding a position over time, and keeping brand, business, and sales moving in the same direction. At Maison…
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Winemaker
Gilles Musy
Payerne, Switzerland
## The Path Gilles Musy’s formation runs through Marcelin and Ecole d'ingénieur en œnologie à Changins, a route that reads as technical preparation rather than romance. The craft…
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Chef
Gilles Tournadre
Rouen, France
## Career At Gill in Rouen, Gilles Tournadre held the line for decades, serving as chef from 1984 to 2020. That kind of continuity is not decorative; it is working discipline. One…
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Winemaker
Gilles Wannaz
Chenaux, Switzerland
## Career At Domaine Wannaz in La Tour de Chenaux, Lavaux, Vaud, Switzerland, Gilles Wannaz has held roles that sit on the same line of work: vigneron-œnologue, poète, metteur en…
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Winemaker
Gina Gallo
Modesto, California, United States
Gina Gallo’s work sits at the point where family knowledge meets technical winemaking. At E. & J. Gallo Winery, she serves as Senior Director of Winemaking, a role grounded in the…
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Chef
Gina Longbottom
Georgetown, Maine, United States
## Career Since 2007, Gina Longbottom has owned Five Islands Lobster Co in Georgetown, Maine, where ownership means working with the tides, the season, and the demands of keeping…
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Winemaker
Ginny Povall
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Ginny Povall has spent the years since 2009 turning Botanica Wines in Stellenbosch, South Africa, into a working expression of vineyard curiosity, cellar patience, and practical…
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Chef
Gino Miodragovic
St. Moritz, Switzerland
## Career Gino Miodragovic is co-head chef at Wirtschaft im Franz in Zurich, where the work sits at the point where timing, technique, and service discipline meet. His route there…
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Winemaker
Gioia Cresti
Castelnuovo Berardenga, Italy
As proprietor of Carpineta Fontalpino in Castelnuovo Berardenga, Italy, Gioia Cresti’s arc runs from agriculture and enology studies in Bordeaux back to the Tuscan estate she took…
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