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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Three-time James Beard Award winner (2011 Cookbook Award, 2015 Outstanding Wine Professional, Hall of Fame)
★Multiple Wine Spectator Grand Awards for wine programs at Fifth Floor and RN74
★André Simon Award for 'The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste'
★Wine Spectator scholarship at Culinary Institute of America
★Wine Enthusiast and San Francisco Chronicle accolades
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and Wine Director of RN74 Restaurant in San Francisco (opened 2009 with $4.5M budget)
→Wine Director for Michael Mina Group overseeing 25+ restaurants worldwide for 18 years
→Co-author of influential wine books 'Secrets of the Sommeliers' and 'The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste'
→Founded multiple acclaimed wineries: Sandhi, Domaine de la Côte, Evening Land Vineyards
→Prominent figure in SOMM documentary series, mentoring Master Sommelier candidates
→Founded 'In Pursuit of Balance' movement that changed California wine industry approach
→Apprenticed under legendary Master Sommelier Larry Stone at Rubicon Restaurant
→Now operates Phelan Farm in Cambria, California with innovative biodynamic farming
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