Wine Spectator Distinguished Service Awards

A handful of leaders stand out for their significant and long-lasting contributions

Posted: October 12, 2007

Wine Spectator presents its Distinguished Service Award to individuals who have made significant and long-lasting contributions to the wine industry. Many are winery owners, winemakers and grapegrowers. Others have extolled the value of good food and wine, delivered bottles into consumers’ hands, stumped for this drink’s health-giving properties or worked in laboratories to make scientific sense of an alchemical beverage.

All have displayed a passion for excellence, an appetite for innovation and a commitment to sharing the fruits of their success with those less fortunate. Through their lives and their achievements, these distinguished winners have helped ensure that wine remains a source of pleasure and inspiration and maintains its role as an integral part of modern life.