As we prepare to ring in 2023, Wine Spectator’s editors are taking a moment to toast the wine industry pioneers, innovators, leaders and chroniclers we lost this year, among them one of our dearest friends.

This year we said goodbye to California Pinot Noir pioneer and Calera founder Josh Jensen, charismatic Château Léoville Barton owner Anthony Barton, Napa vintner Jack Cakebread, Two-Buck Chuck innovator Fred Franzia, Burgundy’s Louis-Fabrice Latour, Sonoma’s Joe Rochioli Jr., restaurateur Tony May and our own Kim Marcus. We’ll dearly remember these members of our community that we lost in 2022.

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Franco Allegrini brought a determined, precise focus to Allegrini’s vineyards and cellars. (Colin Dutton)

Franco Allegrini
One of three siblings who helped make their family winery and Valpolicella global names, he oversaw winemaking and viticulture.

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Anthony Barton
A dashing figure for decades in the wine trade, he raised Bordeaux’s Châteaus Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton to iconic status.

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Jack Cakebread with his wife, Dolores, and sons Bruce, left, and Dennis, who help manage the winery today, at a 2019 winery event. (Courtesy Cakebread Cellars/Alexander Rubin)

Jack Cakebread
The owner of an auto repair shop and a freelance photographer, Cakebread found a second career helping define Napa Chardonnay at Cakebread Cellars.

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Fred Franzia
The co-founder of Bronco Wine Company was known for launching “Two Buck Chuck” and for his outspoken opinions of the wine industry.

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Alain Graillot found winemaking greatness in the rocky soils of the Northern Rhône Valley. (Jon Wyand)

Alain Graillot
His Northern Rhône Valley domaine became the standard-bearer for the Crozes-Hermitage appellation.

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André Hugel in his family’s storied wine cellars. He helped rebuild the company, founded in the 1600s, after World War II devastated Alsace. (Courtesy of Famille Hugel)

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