- Albert Wein
Albert W. Wein, American sculptor born in New York City on July 27, 1915. He died in March of 1991. His mother, Elsa Meher Wein was a portrait painter and it was through her that Wein was first introduced to art. He began his art studies at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts at the age of twelve, where his mother taught. - Desiderius Wein
Desiderius ("Dezső") Wein was a Hungarian doctor and gymnast, who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Wein competed in the parallel bars, horizontal bar, vault, and rings individual events. He did not win medals in any of those competitions, though his exact ranking in each is unknown. He died in Budapest. - George Wein
George Wein (born October 3, 1925) is an American jazz promoter and producer who has been called "the most famous jazz impresario" and "the most important non-player... in jazz history". He is the founder of what is probably the most well-known jazz festival in the United States, the Newport Jazz Festival, which is held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. - Chuck Wein
Chuck Wein graduated from Harvard University in the early 1960s. He met Edie Sedgwick in Cambridge in 1963 and moved with her to New York in 1964, acting as her promoter. He introduced Edie to Andy Warhol in January 1965, and began taking her regularly to The Factory. He left Warhol to travel the world, manage bizarre nightclub acts and focus on the occult. Wein is portrayed by Jimmy Fallon in the 2007 film Factory Girl. - Elizabeth E. Wein
Elizabeth E. Wein (pronounced WEEN) is an American author (but a resident of Scotland) of historical fiction for young adults. She is best known for her three books featuring her version of the King Arthur stories and her character Medraut (Mordred). Her short stories have been published in collections edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, and Sharyn November. - Len Wein
Len Wein (born June 12, 1948) is an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men. He was born in New York City, New York. - Robert Mondavi
Robert Gerald Mondavi (June 18, 1913–May 16, 2008) was a leading American 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 generically. This is now the standard for New World wines. - Berel Wein
Rabbi Berel Wein,the founder and director of The Destiny Foundation since 1996, has, for over 25 years, been identified with the popularization of Jewish history through world-wide lectures, his more than 1,000 audiotapes, books, seminars, educational tours and, most recently, dramatic and documentary films. Rabbi Wein is a graduate of the Hebrew Theological College and Roosevelt College in Chicago. - Ernst Loosen
Ernst Loosen is a German winemaker and owner of "Weingut Dr. Loosen", located in the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer region of Germany. With over 70,000 annual bottle production, he is one of the larger producers in the Mosel region. He is particularly known for the quality of his German Rieslings, having won "Riesling of the Year" in 1989 as awarded by the German wine trade magazine "Feinschmecker".. In 2006, Decanter Magazine, named Dr. - Yossi Wein
While at school he worked weekends in a confectioners shop, packing fudge. - Daryl Wein
Daryl Wein is a New York based actor/writer/director. He was born in Santa Monica, California and raised in Westport, Connecticut. He studied drama and film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and USC School of Film and Television. He trained for acting with the Atlantic Theater Company acting school. His first short film as a director, Life is a Train, won Third Prize at the International Young Filmmaker's Festival in 2001, attracting the attention of apple.com. From his success, the state... - Chuck Wein
Wein attended Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, PA, graduating in 1957. At Harvard in the early 1960s, he met a young Radcliffe heiress named Edie Sedgwick, reportedly in their psychiatrist's office. When Chuck decided to move to New York, Edie went with him. With fair skin, natural blond hair, and blue eyes, Chuck was convinced that he and Edie could become society darlings. Recognizing that Edie had great social potential but was too disorganized to promote herself, he took... - Simi Wein
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- Robert M. Parker Jr.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. (born July 23 1947) is a leading influential wine critic. His 100 point ratings and florid tasting notes define modern American wine criticism, and are a major contributor to the prices for newly-released Bordeaux wine. - Jancis Robinson
Jancis Mary Robinson (born in Cumbria on April 22 1950) is a British wine writer and journalist. She studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University and worked for a travel company after leaving university. She started her wine career writing for the trade magazine Wine & Spirit in 1975. In 1984 she became the first person outside the wine trade to become a Master of Wine. She also served as British Airways's wine consultant, … - Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded "Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation", and the Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now". - Michel Rolland
Michel Rolland "(born December 24, 1947 in Libourne, France)" is an influential Bordeaux-based oenologist, with hundreds of clients across 13 countries and influencing wine style around the world. "It is his consultancies outside France that have set him apart from all but a handful of his countrymen." His signature style, which he helps wineries achieve, is fruit-heavy and oak-influenced, a preference shared by influential critic Robert Parker. - Steven Spurrier
Steven Spurrier (b. 1944) is the British wine authority and merchant in Paris, France, who organized the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, which unexpectedly shattered the myth of French wine superiority and promoted the expansion of wine production in the new world. He is also the founder of the Academie du Vin and Christie's Wine Course in addition to authoring and co-authoring over a dozen books on wine. - Clive Coates
Clive Coates is a Master of Wine and author, most famous for his books about the wines of Burgundy. - Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (born 27 December 1948,) is an Academy Award-nominated French actor. His most significant English-language productions include "Green Card" with Andie MacDowell and "1492: Conquest of Paradise". Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre to Anne Jeanne Joséphe "Eliette" (née Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, a metal worker. He first married Elisabeth (née Guignot), with whom he had two children. - Serena Sutcliffe
Serena Sutcliffe, MW, (1945 -) is the head of Sotheby's international wine department, as well as a prominent writer on wine. Joining the wine trade in 1971 she passed the Master of Wine examination at the first attempt and became only the second woman to hold the qualification. Serena is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on wine. A former Chairman of the Institute of Masters of Wine, … - Kermit Lynch
Kermit Lynch is an American wine importer and winemaker based out of Berkeley, California. He is the author of "Adventures on the Wine Route" which won the Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year award. He is a winner of the James Beard Foundation's "Wine Professional of the Year", and the "Chevalier de l'Ordre de Mérite Agricole" medal presented by the French government for his service to the wine industry. - José Molina
José Benjamin Molina is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. At 6' 2" and weighing 220 pounds, Molina is taller and more slender than his older brother Bengie Molina, who now plays for the San Francisco Giants. Their younger brother, Yadier Molina, is also a catcher, playing for the 2006 World Series champions, the St. Louis Cardinals. The three brothers are the only in MLB history to win World Series championship rings. - Mike Grgich
Mike Grgich 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 Yugoslavia to West Germany, obtaining a fellowship to study there. - Hugh Johnson
Hugh Johnson is a British writer and expert on wine. He is the world's best-selling writer on wine, with total sales of about 15 million. Johnson was a member of the Cambridge University Wine and Food Society while an undergraduate at King's College in the 1950s. He also received an £200 annual Keasbey bursary for "good living". He describes the moment when a friend first interested him in wine-tasting: :[Adrian] came in just after dinner with two glasses and said, … - Vincenzo Florio
Vincenzo Florio, Jr. (March 18 1883 - January 6 1959]) was an Italian industrialist in the wine industry of Sicily, famous for establishing the Targa Florio race. He was born in Palermo and was named after Vincenzo Florio, Sr. (1799-1886) who founded the Florio wine and spice company. In 1909 he married principessa Annina Alliata di Montereale. After her death to cholera in 1911, he married Lucie Henry of Epernay, France. - James Halliday
James Halliday, born in 1938, is a respected Australian wine writer and critic, vigneron, and senior judge in wine competitions. Since 1979 he has written and co-authored more than 40 books on wine, including contributions to the "Oxford Companion to Wine" and the "Larousse Encyclopedia of Wine." - Robert Schlumberger
Robert Schlumberger, Edler von Goldeck was an Austrian entrepreneur and the first producer of sparkling wine in Austria. Schlumberger was born in Stuttgart, Germany. As director of Ruinart, one of the leading champagne houses in Reims, France, he had the idea to produce champagne-like wine ("Schaumwein") in Austria using the French method but Austrian grapes. In 1842 Schlumberger founded his company and started production in Bad Vöslau, … - Frank Schoonmaker
Frank Schoonmaker (August 20 1905 - 1976) was an American wine writer. He was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, and attended two years at Princeton University, after which he left in 1925 to live and travel in Europe. He wrote two travel guides, " Through Europe on Two Dollars a Day " and " Come with me to France ", and, with the approaching end of Prohibition, researched a series of articles for The New Yorker.
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