Vintners Vintners Sir Alexander Bannerman ( 7 October 1788 – 30 December 1864) was a merchant, vintner and colonial governor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Bannerman"
André Tchelistcheff ( December 7, 1901 - April 5, 1994) was America's most influential post- Prohibition winemaker. Tchelistcheff is most notable for his contributions toward defining the style of California's best wines, especially Cabernet Sauvignon. Called the "dean of American winemakers", industry giants such as Robert Mondavi and Louis Martini considered him their mentor. ...more on Wikipedia about "André Tchelistcheff"
André the Giant ( May 19, 1946 – January 27, 1993) was a professional wrestler and actor, born André René Roussimoff in Molien, France. His great size was a result of acromegaly, or excessive growth hormone, and led to him being dubbed "The Eighth Wonder of the World." ...more on Wikipedia about "André the Giant"
Bernardus "Ben" Pon, born December 9, 1936 in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, was a Formula One and sports car racing driver from the Netherlands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ben Pon"
Brooks Firestone is currently the Santa Barbara County, California Third District Supervisor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brooks Firestone"
Dom Pérignon ( ca. 1638– 1715) was a Benedictine monk frequently credited with the invention of champagne. The famous brand of champagne Dom Pérignon is named after him. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dom Pérignon (person)"
James Busby ( February 7, 1801 - July 15, 1871) is widely regarded as the "father" of the Australian wine industry, as he took the first collection of vine stock from Spain and France to Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Busby"
James de Rothschild, born May 15, 1792 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany – died November 15, 1868 in Paris, France, was a banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild family. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Mayer Rothschild"
Jean Laplanche (b. June 21 1924) is a French author, theorist and psychoanalyst. Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and has written more than a dozen books on psychoanalytic theory. The journal Radical Philosophy described him as "the most original and philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day". Laplanche also ran Chateau de Pommard, a French winery, for many years, and, as of 2005, lives on the estate with his wife, Nadine Laplanche. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jean Laplanche"
Louis Roederer is one of the largest remaining independent Champagne Houses, owned by the same family since it was founded in 1776. It is based just south of Reims, France. Tsar Nicholas II nominated Louis Roederer as the official wine supplier to the Imperial Court of Russia. Thus it became known as the 'Champagne of the Tsars'. The effects of the Russian Revolution and Prohibition in the United States, the company lost major ground during the early 20th century. Though it quickly re-established itself during the Great Depression as an eminent wine-producer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louis Roederer"
Mike Grgich (born Miljenko Grgich on April 1 1923) is a Croatian-American winemaker. He was born into a winemaking family in the town of Desne on Croatia's coastal Dalmatian region. He attended the University of Zagreb, where he studied viticulture and enology. However, he learned about California and wanted leave the then- Yugoslavia to become a winemaker there. In 1954, he fled communist Yugolslavia to West Germany, obtaining a fellowship to study there. From there he emigrated to Canada and upon finally receiving a job offer from a winery in California, Grigch was able to go there. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mike Grgich"
Nathaniel de Rothschild, ( London, July 2, 1812 – February 19, 1870 in Paris), known as "Nat," was the founder of the French wine-making branch of the Rothschild family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nathaniel de Rothschild"
Baron Philippe de Rothschild ( April 13, 1902 - January 20, 1988) was a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty who became a Grand Prix race-car driver, a scriptwriter, a theatrical producer, a poet, and the most successful wine grower in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Philippe de Rothschild"
Robert Gerald Mondavi (born June 18, 1913 in Virginia, Minnesota, United States) is a leading vineyard operator whose technical improvements and marketing strategies brought worldwide recognition for the wines of the Napa Valley in California. From an early period, Mondavi aggressively promoted labeling wines varietally rather than genrically. This is now the standard for New World wines and is favored by most consumers around the world. Where legally permitted, many Old World producers are increasingly labeling their wines varietally because of consumer demand. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Mondavi" It's my shortopedia!
Roy Raymond Jr. (1936-), is an American winemaker and president of Raymond Vineyard & Cellar at St. Helena, California. He is the first son of Roy Raymond Sr. and Martha Jane Beringer Raymond. He has been in the wine business all his life and is a fourth generation member of Napa Valley's oldest winemaking family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roy Raymond Jr."
The Taittinger family are a French family who are famous producers of champagne. Headed by Claude Taittinger (born 1927), a member of the consultative committee of the Banque de France, the Taittinger Group is ranked in the top 250 businesses in France. Its diversified holdings include Champagne Taittinger, Societe du Louvre and Concorde Hotels, whose flagship is the famed Hotel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France as well as the Loire Valley wine producing firm of Bouvet-Ladubay, and a partnership in Domaine Carneros in California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Taittinger family"
The term vintner is applied to wine merchants as well as (erroneously) winemakers. Wine merchants buy and sell wine, while winemakers, sometimes also known as oenologists, produce wine or supervise the production of wine. Their work includes cooperating with viticulturists, monitoring the progress of grapes to ensure their quality and to determine the correct time for harvest, crushing and pressing grapes, monitoring the settling of juice and the fermentation of grape material, filtering the wine to remove remaining solids, testing the quality of wine, placing filtered wine in casks or tanks for storage and maturation, preparing plans for bottling wine once it has matured and making sure that quality is maintained when the wine is bottled. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vintner"
Warren Winiarski (born 1928) is California winemaker. ...more on Wikipedia about "Warren Winiarski"
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