Michel Rolland created an entirely new professional category: "flying winemaker." As a consultant, he has worked with more than 150 wineries on four continents, helping to create scores of successful ...

The Rothschilds of Château Mouton-Rothschild have been some of the most dynamic, visionary figures in the wine world, unwilling to accept second place and perpetually focused on the horizon. Who else ...

In 1965, Jack Davies was a successful Los Angeles businessman. But he and his wife, Jamie, had a vision—they wanted to make an American version of Champagne. With determination and $400,000, they ...

Angelo Gaja is a man in a hurry. He walks quickly, speaks quickly. Neighbors remember him in 1961, at age 21, driving tractors on Barbaresco's country roads like they were sports cars. But Gaja feels ...

In 1989, the Wagners earned Wine Spectator Wine of the Year honors for their 1984 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Special Selection. It was the culmination of 17 years of effort by Chuck Wagner ...

Marcel Guigal dropped out of high school at 17; his father, Etienne, had been stricken blind and needed someone to take over the family business—a small domaine and a struggling négociant house. It ...

Emeril Lagasse is a thoughtful, down-to-earth man who achieved success with serious cooking at important restaurants. But "Bam!"—his catchphrase on his Food Network TV show—made him an international ...

Max Schubert was hardly a renegade, but in the 1950s he blew up the Australian wine industry. The Australian winemaker was a dedicated company man, starting his career at Penfolds in 1931 as a ...

August Sebastiani wore bib overalls, a wide-brimmed hat and horn-rimmed glasses, presenting himself as a simple Sonoma farmer with none of the gloss of his Napa neighbors. In reality, Sebastiani was a ...

Dignified and thoughtful, Christian Moueix is the gentleman of Bordeaux's Right Bank. Moueix's reserved nature is understandable—his father was a commanding presence, a poor outsider who built the ...