News Tracey Brandt: Urban Winemaker These 40 up-and-comers—all 40 years old or younger—are changing the way Americans eat and drink, from a vodka distiller who rewrote Nebraska's Prohibition-era laws to a White House chef who's fiercely fighting to improve school-lunch programs. By Food & Wine Editors Updated on March 31, 2015 Share Tweet Pin Email Tracey Brandt: Urban Winemaker By experimenting with novel techniques—like making wine using grapes growing wild on abandoned vineyard land—Tracey Brandt, 40, and her husband, Jared, are helping to change the way wine is made. They're also changing where it's made: They produce their distinctive Rhône-style bottlings in a warehouse in downtown Berkeley, California, in the heart of fast-growing urban-winemaking country. Plus Go to the Donkey and Goat Winery website More Inspiring Food Personalities 40 and Under Jennifer Rubell Siggi Hilmarsson Sam Kass Zach Brooks Robert Litt Brett Beach & Tim McCollum Geoff Bartakovics & Nick Fauchald Matt Timms Michael Kirban & Ira Liran Emily Olson & Rob LaFave Brendan Newman & Rico Gagliano Matthew Cain Anya Fernald Kenji Lopez-Alt Frances Ro Charles Bieler Chris Parachini & Brandon Hoy Tata Harper Annemarie Ahearn Minh Tsai Amanda Hesser Matt Jennings Alison Pincus Tracey Brandt Rob Cooper Christian Ettinger Peter Karpinski Nicolas Jammet, Nathaniel Ru & Jonathan Neman Zac Triemert Anthony Myint & Danny Bowien Jeremy Tooker Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit