Viticulturists Viticulturists Albert Seibel was a French hybridist who lived from 1844 to 1936 who made hybrid crosses of European wine grapes ( Vitis vinifera) with native North American grapes. He often used the hybrid Jaeger 70 (a cross of Vitis Linceumii and Vitis Rupestris produced by the Herman Jaeger) as a female parent. His crosses are known as Seibel grapes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Seibel"
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"
Carole Meredith is the University of California at Davis geneticist who pionered the use of DNA typing to differentiate between vinifera grape varieties. Now retired and growing world-class Syrah in the Mount Veeder appellation of Napa Valley with her husband under the Lagier-Meredith label. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carole Meredith"
Elmer Swenson (1913 – 2004) was a pioneering grape breeder who introduced a number of new cultivars, effectively revolutionizing grape growing in the Upper Midwest of the United States and other cold and short-seasoned regions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elmer Swenson"
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American film director, screenwriter, vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier, most renowned for directing the highly regarded Godfather trilogy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Ford Coppola"
Henry Morris Naglee ( January 15, 1815 - March 5, 1886) was a civil engineer, banker, vintner, and a Union general in the American Civil War. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Morris Naglee"
Dr. Konstantin Frank ( 1897- 1985) was a viticulturist and winemaker in the Finger Lakes region of New York. He was born in Odessa, Ukraine and received his PhD in viticulture from the University of Odessa, his thesis being on techniques for growing Vitis vinifera in a cold climate. After working for a time in then Soviet Georgia managing a large state-owned vinyard, he came to the United States in 1951. While working for the Cornell University Geneva Experiment Station, he urged New York State winemakers to move away from French Hybrid grapes and Vitis labrusca and instead plant Vitis vinifera, the traditional grapes of European winemakers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Konstantin Frank"
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"
Paul Masson ( 1859– 1940) was an early pioneer of California viticulture and the most successful popularizer of Californian sparkling wine. He emigrated from the Burgundy region of France in 1878 to California, "where he met Charles Lefranc, one of a number of French immigrants who had expanded the viticulture introduced into the Santa Clara Valley by the Catholic mission fathers." He went back to France in 1880 but returned to California due to the depression in the French wine industry caused by the Phylloxera plague. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Masson"
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"
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."
Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913), often referred to simply as T.V. Munson, was a horticulturist and breeder of grapes from Texas. Working in Denison, Texas, he made extensive use of native American grape species, and devoted a great deal of his life to collecting and documenting them. He released hundreds of named cultivars, though only a few remain of significance today. Though breeding for wine quality seems to have occupied a great proportion of his effort, it was his work on rootstock development that had the greatest impact on viticulture. This work provide European grape growers with phylloxera-resistant stocks, allowing them to recover from the devastating epidemic of the late 19th century while still growing the ancient Vitis vinifera cultivars. In honor of this work, the French government named him Chevalier du Merite Agricole of the French Legion of Honor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thomas Volney Munson"
Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953) is an American military historian and political essayist, best known as a scholar of ancient warfare as well as a commentator on modern warfare. He is also a grape farmer and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Victor Davis Hanson"
Warren Winiarski (born 1928) is California winemaker. ...more on Wikipedia about "Warren Winiarski"
William Thompson (born in Yorkshire, England 1839) was a viticulturist. He emigrated to California (near Yuba City) in 1863 and developed the Thompson Seedless table grape (see Sultana), which is also used for grape juice and wine, as well as 95% of the raisins produced in California. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Thompson (viticulturist)"
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