The People · Page 98
The artisans of taste.
Chef
Iván Garcia
Caracas, Venezuela
## The Climb Training as a culinary student in Puebla, Mexico, gave Iván García the base layer: repetition, discipline, and the habit of learning a kitchen from the ground up at…
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Ivan Giovanett
Kurtinig, Italy
## Career - **Winemaker, Director of Viticulture/Production** — Castelfeder, Cortina, Alto Adige, Italy ## Signature Ivan Giovanett’s signature wines include Burgum Novum Riserva…
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Ivan Lee
Beijing, China
## The Climb Ivan Lee started at Burnt Ends as a Restaurant Server, and that front-of-house work formed the base of the career that followed. Service teaches a particular set of…
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Ivan Saez
Madrid, Spain
## The Climb Madrid kitchens tend to sort chefs by station discipline and pressure tolerance, and Ivan Saez moved through that ladder in sequence: chef executive at Lagrimas…
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Ivo Duboković
Jelsa, Croatia
## Coming Up Early in his career, Ivo Dubokovi moved through the world of ideas before settling into the more tactile, elemental rhythm of wine. But the path he would come to…
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Ivo Monti
Cademario, Switzerland
## The Climb At sea, the work that later carries into Cantina Monti is built on repetition, timing, and responsibility. Ivo Monti began as a deck-hand on a cargo ship, then moved…
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Izumi Kimura
Toyama, Japan
# Coming Up Izumi Kimura works in the exacting discipline of Edo-style sushi, where patience, precision, and control are the craft itself. The form leaves little room for noise:…
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Jaakko Sorsa
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
That line places Jaakko Sorsa inside the daily fact of the kitchen: Finnish habits carried into Hong Kong, where restraint meets speed and the craft has to hold under pressure. It…
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Jace Krause
Portland, Oregon, United States
## Coming Up Since 2012, Fried Egg I'm In Love has been run by Jace Krause as both chef and sole proprietor, a setup that keeps the work close to the counter and the line. The…
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Jack Carson
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
From Louisiana, Jack Carson works in a meatball specialty that is built on thrift, not flourish. “I often use off cuts and certain things that are laying around the kitchen,” he…
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Jack Cashmore
Owhango, New Zealand
## The Path Line cooks who can both plate and build are rare enough; Jack Cashmore puts that bluntly himself: “Cooking and building stuff are two of my most favourite things.” In…
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Jack Harris
New York City, New York, United States
His cooking is built on restraint: seafood and vegetables, seasonal change, and plates that leave room for ingredients to read clearly. Jack Harris works with lightness rather…
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Jack Murphy
San Francisco, California, United States
## Coming Up Thin-crust pizza defines the line of work at Pizzetta 211 in San Francisco, where Jack Murphy took on the owner role in 2016. The style fits a restaurant built around…
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Jackie Contreras-Sanchez
Napa, California, United States
## Coming Up At La Calenda, Jackie Contreras-Sanchez learned the kitchen as a system of timing, repetition, and control. Moving from Pastry Chef de Partie to Sous Chef, they built…
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Jackson Kalb
Los Angeles, California, United States
Italian cooking in Jackson Kalb’s restaurants is built around handwork and service pressure: handmade pastas, crispy romana-tonda pizzas, and vodka sauce calibrated to cling. At…
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Jackson Yu
San Francisco, California, United States
## The Climb Sushi training split between the Bay Area and Ginza, Japan, gave the craft in Jackson Yu’s hands two reference points: California’s restaurant culture and Japanese…
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Chef
Jacob Bruun-Jensen
Kalundborg, Denmark
## The Path Jacob Bruun-Jensen’s route to Dyrehøj Vingård in Kalundborg, Denmark, reads like the making of a winemaker who has learned to move between landscapes. Before 2025, he…
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Winemaker
Jacob Leadley
Andover, United Kingdom
Owner and winemaker at Black Chalk in Andover, United Kingdom, Jacob Leadley works in English sparkling wine with a practical, measured approach. At Black Chalk, the brief is…
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Winemaker
Jacob Leadley; Zoë Driver
Andover, United Kingdom
At Black Chalk in Hampshire, the work is shaped by long cycles and delayed payoff, and Jacob Leadley is operating inside that rhythm. As Chief Executive Officer, he is responsible…
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Winemaker
Jacob Stokkebye
Nyborg, Denmark
Jacob Stokkebye is the winemaker and co-founder of By Stokkebye in Nyborg, where caviar and wine tastings sit inside a traditional winemaking framework. The work is built around…
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Chef
Jacopo Dedori
Milan, Italy
Jacopo Dedori’s public profile is the kitchen leadership at Langosteria Cafè in Milan, Italy. Executive Chef is the current line in the résumé, and it reads as the endpoint of a…
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Jacque Torres
New York City, New York, United States
## Coming Up Pastry discipline at Le Cirque gave Jacque Torres an early platform in the trade: as executive pastry chef there, the work sat inside a house known for exacting…
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Winemaker
Jacqueline Collardot
Puligny-Montrachet, France
Puligny-Montrachet work at family scale depends on parcel memory as much as cellar routine. At Domaine Thomas-Collardot, which Jacqueline Collardot runs with her son Matthieu,…
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Jacques Bruwer
Robertson, South Africa
Viticulturist Jacques Bruwer has spent his working life at Bon Courage Estate in Robertson, South Africa, where vineyard rhythm and cellar discipline have shaped his practice…
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Jacques Guinaudeau
Mouillac, France
Jacques Guinaudeau owns Château Grand Village in Mouillac, France, where the work is defined by farming method as much as by site. The property is farmed biodynamically and…
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Winemaker
Jacques Joly
Bourg En Lavaux, Switzerland
Jacques Joly works as vigneron and cellar master at Jacques & Aurélia Joly, and the role lands with the weight of proximity. As a winegrower from the neighboring village, he…
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Jacques Joly; Aurélia Joly
Bourg En Lavaux, Switzerland
Jacques Joly and Aurélia Joly work the cellar at Cave Jacques et Aurélia Joly in Grandvaux, Switzerland, where the making of wine stays tied to the landscape that frames it. Their…
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Jacques Tatasciore
Cressier, Switzerland
Winemaking at Domaine de la Rochette in Cressier, Switzerland, is built on a narrow frame: Swiss Pinot Noir, a compact holding, and vineyard detail that has to carry the finished…
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Chef
Jake Godby
San Francisco, California, United States
Executive Chef at Humphrey Slocombe in San Francisco, Jake Godby works ice cream through a pastry frame: sweetness under control, contrast composed, and flavor built outside the…
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Jake Hassal
Strasbourg, France
Seafood is the through-line in Jake Hassal’s kitchen work: ingredient-led cooking, modern technique, and a restrained hand that leaves room for freshness and delicacy to do the…
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Jake Stevens
Portland, Maine, United States
Jake Stevens is the chef at Leeward in Portland, Maine, where fresh, handmade pasta sets the tempo of the kitchen and defines the restaurant’s clearest line of work. Before that,…
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Winemaker
Jakob Buchinger
Mautern, Austria
His work is narrow by design: one estate, one discipline, one long attention to the slow decisions that turn fruit into wine at Bioweingut Jakob. Jakob Buchinger’s profile is…
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Jakob Lei
Haderslev, Denmark
## The Path Winemaking at Årø Vingård in Haderslev has been Jakob Lei’s work since 2015, and the role places him inside the slower logic of vineyard production: seasonal timing,…
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Chef
Jakob Zeller
Lech, Austria
Jakob Zeller’s cooking at Restaurant Klösterle in Lech, where he has worked in chef de cuisine and management since 2019, reads from an Alpine register: Progressive Austrian…
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Jamal Warner
St. Mary's, Antigua and Barbuda
Jamal Warner’s profile sits in that register. The measure of his career is not excess, but the discipline of a chef whose identity has been shaped by training, consistency, and…
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James Berckemeyer
Lima, Peru
## The Path Those schools show up in the food as structure and control, with an international frame rather than a single local register. That background now runs through COSME,…
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James Close
Darlington, United Kingdom
## The Climb A kitchen reputation can be built on consistency rather than volume, and James Close’s was. At Raby Hunt Restaurant, where he served as Chef Patron until 2024, the…
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Culinary legend
James Tracey
New York City, New York, United States
## The Path From there, the cook’s path ran through Red Sage in Washington, D.C., Vidalia in Washington, D.C., Luma in New York City, Gramercy Tavern in New York City, and…
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James Trees
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
## The Path James Trees is chef of Esther's Kitchen, and that role defines the daily standard of the room: pace, discipline, and the culinary identity of the restaurant. The work…
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James Treet
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
## Coming Up In Las Vegas, the Executive Chef role at Esther's Kitchen placed James Treet in a service environment where timing, restraint, and decision-making are tested on every…
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James Winberg
Robbinsdale, Minnesota, United States
He has described one hard financial turn plainly: "We also paid our taxes, and we lost $350,000 in one day." The line reads like a ledger entry because that is what it was: cash…
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Jamie Barber
London, United Kingdom
## The Climb Hospitality work often rewards people who can read a room and hold a line; Jamie Barber came to it after law, where structure and negotiation are the daily grammar.…
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Jamie Brown-Soukaseume
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
## The Climb Professional chef work in Madison tends to reward consistency as much as speed, and Jamie Brown-Soukaseume built that reputation step by step. Beginning in 2011 at…
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Jamie Dobbin
Windsor, United Kingdom
## The Path Jamie Dobbin’s early post as Chef de partie at The Ivy Restaurant in Covent Garden set the terms of the work: pace, precision and discipline, all learned in a polished…
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Jamie FinnegaN
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jamie Finnegan’s professional life has the kind of clarity that feels almost architectural: one address, one title, and a relationship to a restaurant that is as much about…
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Jamie Loja
New York City, New York, United States
## The Climb At Francis & Staub- La Rotisserie in New York City, the Executive Chef role demanded timing, restraint, and control as much as flavor, and Jamie Loja met it early.…
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Winemaker
Jan Panman
Cepie, France
Jan Panman works in winemaking and vineyard management at Château Rives-Blanques, a role that asks him to move fluidly between the living rows of the vineyard and the quieter,…
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Pastry Chef
Jan Proot
Antwerp, Belgium
On peut dire que Jan Proot est né dans les ateliers DelRey ! Sa passion pour le chocolat et pour la pâtisserie était donc une évidence très jeune. Après des études marketing, il…
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Chef
Janice Wong
Singapore, Singapore
Pastry and dessert work can move between plated service, chocolate, confectionery, and edible installation without leaving the discipline. In Janice Wong’s case, the through-line…
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Jarad Slipp
Middleburg, Virginia, United States
## Coming Up Training at the Culinary Institute of America and ICIF in Italy put kitchen work and wine study in the same frame for Jarad Slipp. That combination shows up in the…
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Jared Levy
Los Angeles, California, United States
Jared Levy’s profile reads as a study in formal ground work and steady placement. California School of Culinary Arts gave him the baseline; Bottle Rock Media Lounge in Downtown…
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Jared Rogers
Kentfield, California, United States
## The Climb California Culinary Academy gave Jared Rogers the base line for a kitchen career built on discipline, technique, and precision under pressure. That training shows up…
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Jared Sexton
New York City, New York, United States
## The Path Formal training at Johnson & Wales University gave Jared Sexton the base that pastry work asks for: discipline, timing, repetition, and control. That foundation…
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Winemaker
Jarkko Peränen
Greve in Chianti, Italy
## The Path Close-to-the-vine apprenticeship set the terms early on: working with a small producer in Chianti Classico in Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy (1997–2002) gave Jarkko…
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Jasmine Norton
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
## The Path Seafood is framed at The Urban Oyster in Baltimore, Maryland, as something broader than a raw bar. Since 2017, Jasmine Norton has held the restaurant as founder and…
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Jason Barwikowski
Portland, Oregon, United States
## The Climb Opening service is where a kitchen’s habits get set, and Jason Barwikowski’s first listed post at Olympic Provisions Southeast in Portland, OR placed him in that…
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Jason Birchard
New York City, New York, United States
Jason Birchard’s ownership of Veselka in New York City is a working title, built on years inside the restaurant rather than at a distance from it. Since his teenage years,…
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Jason Bond
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
## Coming Up Music study gave Jason Bond a structural habit that still reads in the kitchen: timing, balance, repetition, and restraint. That discipline carried into his work in…
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Jason Carter
Toronto, Canada
At Dandylion in Toronto, the work associated with Jason Carter reads as apprenticeship turned into authorship. The line runs back through Susur Lee and Marc Thuet, where exacting…
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Jason Eckerson
Biddeford, Maine, United States
Jason Eckerson has been co-owner of Fish & Whistle in Biddeford since 2022, and that role anchors the working knowledge he built across Maine kitchens and seafood buying. ## The…
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Jason French
Portland, Oregon, United States
## The Climb Geography shaped the early frame of Jason French’s work. He was born and raised on the East coast, and his upbringing moved through DC, New York, and Maine in a…
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Jason Hua
New York City, New York, United States
Jason Hua is chef at The Dutch in New York City, where American food is handled with a plainspoken rule set: Talk less, Work more. In a room that can reward volume, his kitchen…
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Jason Paolini
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Since 2022, Jason Paolini has run the kitchen at Lucian Books and Wine in Atlanta, after more than 20 years in the city’s dining scene. That span shows up in the work itself: a…
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Jason Tong Lai-ching
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
## Coming Up At Sushi Sase, Jason Tong Lai-ching worked in the kind of early post that tends to shape a sushi chef’s later habits: pace, repetition, control, and the discipline to…
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Jason Wang
New York City, New York, United States
That lineage is not decoration; it is the working frame behind Jason Wang’s food. The point is not nostalgia for its own sake, but the translation of a regional inheritance into a…
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Jasper Chen
Portland, Oregon, United States
## The Making Xiaolongbao rewards control more than display. At XLB in Portland, the kitchen gave Jasper Chen a former chef role built around that discipline: wrapper handling,…
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Jaume Marambio
Barcelona, Spain
## Career Jaume Marambio’s work sits inside Barcelona’s kitchen network: Chilean background, Barcelona training ground, and a track record built in rooms where execution matters.…
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Javier Almansa
Seville, Spain
In Seville, Spain, brasa cooking works through proximity: oak charcoal, controlled heat, smoke and timing applied to beef, pork, lamb, fish, seafood and vegetables. At Almansa ·…
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Javier Bardauil
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Chef and owner of BARDA in Detroit since 2021, Javier Bardauil has built a career that moves between Argentine kitchen discipline and Paris-trained technique. Born in Buenos…
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Javier Brichetto
Madrid, Spain
Javier Brichetto’s work is built on kitchen discipline rather than anecdote: Argentine cooking, Patagonian flavours, and the pressure of long service run through a career shaped…
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Javier Canteras
Portland, Oregon, United States
Javier Canteras has led Urdaneta in Portland since 2016, bringing a Basque working vocabulary into a city shaped by the Pacific Northwest. Born in Bermeo, Spain, he learned…
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Javier Hernández
Málaga, Spain
Málaga sets the working frame for this kitchen: rice cuisine, traditional rice dishes, market-seasonal products, and Traditional Andalusian cookery. In Javier Hernández’s hands at…
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Winemaker
Javier Martínez de Salinas
Logroño, Spain
## The Climb Technical work in Rioja is built on control of process: laboratory checks, production-line discipline, and tasting for consistency. Javier Martínez de Salinas came…
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Winemaker
Javier San Pedro Rández
Guardia, Spain
## The Climb At Bodegas Vallobera in Laguardia, Spain, the winemaking brief has been tied to one fixed idea since 1990: the vineyard is the primary source of character. Javier San…
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Javier Yebra
Seville, Spain
Javier Yebra works the line between Andalusian tradition and technique-led cooking at Bar Yebra in Seville, Spain. As chef/owner and Executive Chef, he keeps the restaurant’s…
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Jay Moore
Toronto, Canada
Jay Moore is the chef of Lake Inez in Toronto, where French and Japanese influences are handled as a working grammar rather than a novelty. The kitchen’s range depends on…
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Jay Roman
New Iberia, Louisiana, United States
Café Du Monde’s operating craft is continuity: coffee mixed with chicory, beignets fried fresh, powdered sugar applied generously, and service maintained without a stop. As…
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Jay So
Bangkok, Thailand
Jay So cooks at Som Tam Jay So in Bangkok, where the restaurant’s name places him inside the work rather than outside it. The setup is direct: the chef’s name is on the door, the…
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Jay Strauss
New York City, New York, United States
## Coming Up Hospitality took shape early through the work at Concord Hill in Brooklyn, New York, where Jay Strauss was photographer and co-owner from 2014. That mix of…
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Jean Christophe Guiony
New York City, New York, United States
Jean Christophe Guiony’s work sits in Classic French haute cuisine, with the line carried through New York dining rooms rather than announced as a style exercise. At La Grenouille…
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Winemaker
Jean Christophe Meyrou
Vignonet, France
The work here is less about role names than about control of expression: vineyard by vineyard, parcel by parcel, the aim is to make the ground readable in the wine. ## Coming Up…
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Jean de Bonnaventure
Beaumont En Veron, France
At Château de Coulaine in Beaumont-en-Véron, France, Jean de Bonnaventure works within a winemaking rhythm built on observation, timing, and place. The job is less about display…
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Jean Guyon
Begadan, France
Jean Guyon is the owner and man in charge of Château Haut Condissas in Bégadan, France, a role that places him at the center of the estate’s identity and daily rhythm. His path to…
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Jean Nakayama
Seattle, Washington, United States
## The Climb At Maneki, the work is practical before it is ceremonial: operator, president, and caretaker are the titles that define Jean Nakayama’s role, and each one points to…
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Winemaker
Jean Orliac
Valflaunes, France
## The Essentials CNRS in Montpellier gave Jean Orliac a framework built on observation, patience, and exactness. Agronomy and research sit together in his path: one bringing…
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Winemaker
Jean Pascal Vazart
Pomerol, France
## The Path Cellar discipline in Pomerol depends on repeated small judgments rather than display. Early in his career, Jean Pascal Vazart worked as winemaker at L'Évangile, where…
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Winemaker
Jean Pierre Py
Douzens, France
## Coming Up At Domaine Py in Douzens, France, the work sits with Jean Pierre Py across two functions: gérant and vigneron. That pairing puts estate management and vineyard/cellar…
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Winemaker
Jean Steinmaier
Saint Gervais, France
He began working there with his father in the same year the family acquired the estate, In 1965, Guy and Anne Steinmaier bought an old priory of the Chartreuse de Valbonne,…
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Winemaker
Jean Tatin
Brinay, France
Jean Tatin is the Business Owner and winemaker at Domaines Tatin in Brinay, a role that places him at the center of both the day-to-day running of the estate and the quieter, more…
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Winemaker
Jean Thévenet
Clesse, France
## The Climb Since 1972, Jean Thevenet has led Domaine de la Bongran as winemaker and estate head, and the length of that tenure tells its own story. This is a career built not on…
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Jean-Antoine Nony
Saint-Émilion, France
## Coming Up Since 2011, the work at Château Grand Mayne has sat with Jean-Antoine Nony in the role of co-owner and manager. The brief is not only operational; it is also…
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Winemaker
Jean-Baptiste Boudier
Pernand-Vergelesses, France
## The Path Viticulture and enology at Lycée Viticole in Beaune gave Jean-Baptiste Boudier the technical base for making wine with discipline rather than instinct alone.…
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Winemaker
Jean-Baptiste Bouzereau
Meursault, France
## The Path Since 1999, Jean-Baptiste Bouzereau has held the estate manager and overseer role at Domaine Michel Bouzereau et Fils in Meursault, Burgundy, France. The work is less…
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Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier
Moulis En Medoc, France
His work reads from a simple creed: “I am passionate about life in all its forms.” For a winemaker, that means treating vineyard and cellar as living systems, and letting…
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Jean-Baptiste Fabre
Domazan, France
## Coming Up The formation shows in the progression: L’Oustau de Baumanière, Grand Véfour, Pavillon Elysées, and La Réserve de Beaulieu placed Jean-Baptiste Fabre in kitchens…
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Winemaker
Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy
Aÿ, France
## Coming Up At Champagne Geoffroy in Cumières, the early training was built on repetition, observation, and continuity. From 1980, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy worked within the family…
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Winemaker
Jean-Baptiste Ponsot
Rully, France
Jean-Baptiste Ponsot is the producer behind Dom Jean-Baptiste Ponsot in Burgundy, France, a Rully story that moved from family-grown grapes to estate-bottled wines in 2000. At 20,…
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Jean-Baptiste Quiot
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France
Jean-Baptiste Quiot is a thirteenth-generation member of Famille Quiot and co-leads its estates with his sister Florence. Their family vineyards span Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Provence…
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Jean-Benoît Cavalier
Vacquieres, France
Jean-Benoît Cavalier works at Château de Lascaux in Vacquières, France, where the wines are built around Pic Saint-Loup and the wider Languedoc. The style is set against excess:…
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Jean-Charles Borgnat
Cerbois, France
Jean-Charles Borgnat is the third-generation vigneron who has managed Domaine de la Commanderie in Quincy and Reuilly. The family estate cultivates Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir and…
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