List of wine professionals
Sections are arranged from cultivation through processing, starting from vineyards to consumption advised by sommeliers.
Vineyard owners
Included are owners of well-known or sizable vineyards. Excluded are managers of public holding companies as owners and persons owning vineyards as a hobby, being notable for other reasons.Many vineyard owners are also winemakers as well.
- Jean-Charles Boisset – head of Boisset Family Estates, Burgundy's largest wine producer
- Jean-Michel Cazes – Managed estates such as Château Lynch-Bages and Château Les Ormes-de-Pez
- Cecil O. De Loach, Jr. – Sonoma County grape grower and winemaker
- Franco Biondi Santi – Winemaker whose family invented Brunello di Montalcino
- Paul Champoux – Washington wine grower
- Marie-Thérèse Chappaz – Swiss organic wine grower
- Noemi Marone Cinzano – Italian businesswoman, and wine grower
- Francesco Marone Cinzano – Italian businessman, and vineyard owner
- Ernest Gallo – largest American wine producer
- Richard Graff – pioneer California winemaker
- Randall Grahm – original Rhone Ranger, owner and winemaker Bonny Doon Vineyard
- Mike Grgich – winemaker of the Chateau Montelena wine that won the white wine competition, the "Judgment of Paris"
- Agoston Haraszthy – Father of Modern Winemaking in California, see Sonoma Valley AVA
- Sir James Hardy – Australian winemaker, businessman and Olympic Games sailor; member of the Hardy's winemaking family.
- Donald M. Hess – Swiss vintner in different countries and founder of the Hess Collection
- Jean Hugel – Alsatian wine producer
- Jess Jackson – American wine producer
- Henri Jayer – French vintner, credited with introducing important innovations to Burgundian winemaking
- Kathryn Kennedy – one of the first women to own a California winery
- Charles Krug – founded the first commercial winery in the Napa Valley
- Baron Pierre Le Roy – co-founder of the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine and owner of Château Fortia
- May-Eliane de Lencquesaing – owner of Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande; Bordeaux wine ambassador
- Alexis Lichine – wine writer and château-owner
- Zelma Long – oenologist and pioneer of women winemaking in California
- Ernst Loosen – renowned German winemaker
- David Lowe – Australian winemaker; owner of Lowe Wines; past President of NSW Wine Industry Association; Vice President of Australian Winemakers Federation
- Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi – late Italian prince and winemaker of Fiorano
- Giorgio Lungarotti – Italian agricultural entrepreneur and viticulturalist, founder of Cantine Lungarotti Winery
- André Lurton – instrumental in creating Pessac-Léognan as a separate appellation of Graves
- Bernard Magrez – French and global wine estate tycoon
- Thierry Manoncourt – French winemaker and owner of Château Figeac
- Henri Martin – French mayor of Saint-Julien, owner of Château Gloria and Château Saint-Pierre
- Margrit Mondavi – organizer of cultural events at vineyards in the Napa Valley
- Robert Mondavi – a leading California vineyard owner; pioneered technical improvements and labeling and marketing wines varietally
- Bill Moularadellis – owner, winemaker and Managing Director of Kingston Estate wines
- Christian Moueix – French president of Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix and winemaker
- Egon Müller – producer of fine Saar-Riesling
- Gustave Niebaum – founder of Inglenook Winery
- John Patchett – first person to plant a commercial vineyard in the Napa Valley
- Michel Rolland – oenologist and winery consultant
- Nathaniel de Rothschild – founder of the French wine-making branch of the Rothschild family
- Philippe de Rothschild – member of the Rothschild family
- Miguel A. Torres – pioneering Catalan winemaker and President of family wine company Bodegas Torres
- Bob Trinchero – inventor of White Zinfandel
- Aubert de Villaine – French wine expert and co-owner of the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti
- Robert G. Wilmers – owner of Château Haut-Bailly, Crus Classé de Graves in Pessac Léognan, Bordeaux
- Warren Winiarski – winemaker of the Stag's Leap Wine Cellars wine that won the Cabernet Sauvignon competition at the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976
Viticulturists
- John Adlum – father of American viticulture
- Helmut Becker – German viticulturist
- Andy Beckstoffer – California viticulturist
- Romeo Bragato – New Zealand wine pioneer
- James Busby – widely regarded as the "father" of the Australian wine industry
- Jules Chauvet – French chemist, considered the "father" of French natural winemaking
- Henri Enjalbert – French professor of geography and specialist in wine geology
- Konstantin Frank – "father" of vinifera wine growing in the Eastern United States
- Pierre Galet – French ampelographer and author
- Hermann Jaeger – Swiss-American viticulturist, created over 100 new grape varieties, notable hybrid was Jaeger 70
- Carole Meredith – geneticist who discovered the parentage of Cabernet Sauvignon - Chardonnay, Syrah and Zinfandel
- Thomas Volney Munson - American horticulturist in Texas who developed phylloxera-resistant rootstocks. Named Chevalier du Mérite Agricole by the French government.
- Hermann Müller – Swiss oenologist, developed the Müller-Thurgau grape variety
- Abraham Izak Perold – developed the Pinotage grape variety
- Oscar Renteria – Californian viticulturalist
- Albert Seibel – French hybridist who made "Seibel grapes", which are hybrids of Vitis vinifera and Vitis riparia
- Dr. Richard Smart – Australian viticulturalist
- Gil Wahlquist – Australian pioneer organic winemaker
Oenologists
- Alberto Antonini – Italian oenologist and winery consultant
- Walter Clore – "father of Washington wine"
- Jean-Luc Colombo – Rhone Valley oenologist and winemaker*
- Denis Dubourdieu – winemaker, professor of oenology at the University of Bordeaux
- Max Léglise – French oenologist
- Thomas Munson – his proposal saved European wine industry from extinction
- Ann C. Noble – inventor of the Aroma Wheel
- Dom Perignon – Benedictine monk incorrectly credited with the invention of Champagne
- Émile Peynaud – renowned French oenologist
- Jacques Puisais – French oenologist and taste philosopher
Winemakers
- Kristen Barnhisel – California winemaker
- Heidi Peterson Barrett – winemaker of California cult wines, called by Robert Parker "the first lady of wine"
- A. W. Baxter – winemaker of Veedercrest Vineyards, which competed in the "Judgement of Paris"
- Ntsiki Biyela – first black female winemaker in South Africa
- Tiquette Bramlett – first black woman to lead a winery in the United States
- Cathy Corison – winemaker and consultant
- Didier Dagueneau – Loire winemaker of Sauvignon blanc cult wine
- Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin-Cliquot – Champagne and namesake of Veuve Cliquot
- Stéphane Derenoncourt – French winemaker and winery consultant
- Paul Draper – winemaker of Ridge Vineyards
- Peter Gago – Australian winemaker and writer
- Mia Klein – California winemaker
- Robin and Andréa McBride – African American winemakers and founders of McBride Sisters Wine Company
- Justin Meyer – monk and winemaker at Christian Brothers
- Maurice O'Shea – Australian pioneer winemaker
- Eben Sadie – South African winemaker of the Sadie Family
- Max Schubert – leading winemaker and creator of Penfolds Grange
- Carol Shelton – California wine producer and pioneer
- Kay Simon – Washington wine producer and pioneer
- Lane Tanner – California winemaker
- André Tchelistcheff – "Dean of American Winemakers"
- Sean Thackrey – American experimental winemaker
- József Törley – founder of József Törley & Co., Hungary's most successful sparkling wine producer
- Helen Turley – California winemaker and consultant
Wine merchants
- Lalou Bize-Leroy – Burgundian wine producer and former co-manager of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
- Louis Bohne – famous sales agent of Veuve Clicquot
- Pierre Castel, French wine industry leader
- Christian Delpeuch – wine official and Plan Bordeaux promoter
- Georges Duboeuf – innovative and large Beaujolais bottler
- Charles Heidsieck – Champagne house founder
- Claude Moët – Champagne house founder
- Jean-Rémy Moët – Champagne merchant
- René Renou – French wine industry leader
- Hardy Rodenstock – wine collector and alleged wine fraud, subject of The Billionaire's Vinegar
- Jean-Claude Rouzaud – Champagne executive
- André Simon – wine merchant, gourmet, and wine writer
- Steven Spurrier – British wine authority, organized the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976
Wine critics
- Pierre Brejoux – Inspector General of the Appellation d'Origine Controlee Board
- Michael Broadbent, MW – influential British wine critic and auctioneer
- Jeb Dunnuck – reviewer for The Wine Advocate and eRobertParker.com
- Gerhard Eichelmann – German wine critic
- Robert Finigan – American wine and restaurant critic
- Patricia Gallagher – judge at the "Judgement of Paris" tasting
- Antonio Galloni – American wine critic, formerly of The Wine Advocate; founder of Vinous
- Joshua Greene – American wine critic, publisher and editor-in-chief of Wine & Spirit
- Huon Hooke – Australian wine critic
- James Laube – American wine critic of Wine Spectator
- Jeannie Cho Lee – first Asian Master of Wine
- Gian Luca Mazzella – international wine critic, journalist and documentarian
- Allen Meadows – American wine critic of Burgundy and Pinot Noir wine with the Burghound.com newsletter
- Jasper Morris, MW – British wine expert
- Robert M. Parker, Jr. – American wine critic, referenced in the term Parkerization of wine
- Lisa Perrotti-Brown - American wine critic for The Wine Advocate, Master of Wine
- Jancis Robinson, MW – wine writer and educator from the UK
- David Schildknecht – American wine critic
- Ricky Schraub – California wine critic
- James Suckling – American wine critic formerly of Wine Spectator
- Stephen Tanzer – American wine critic and editor
- Jon Winroth – American wine critic and educator