André Hueston Mack is an American
sommelier and
winemaker.
Career
Mack worked for two years in the finance industry before transitioning into the restaurant industry.
He started as a dishwasher at
Darden Restaurants and left as a corporate service trainer after six years.
He then worked at The Palm in
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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before working as the founding sommelier at Bohanan's in San Antonio.
He later worked at the
Thomas Keller restaurants
The French Laundry
The French Laundry is a three-Michelin star French and Californian cuisine restaurant located in Yountville, California, in the Napa Valley. Sally Schmitt opened The French Laundry in 1978 and designed her menus around local, seasonal ingredie ...
in
Yountville, California
Yountville ( or ) is a city in Napa County, in the Wine Country of California, United States. Located in the North Bay region of the Bay Area, the population was 3,436 at the 2020 census. Almost a third of the town's population lives at the Ve ...
and Per Se in
New York, New York
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.
In 2007, he founded the company Maison Noir (formerly known as Mouton Noir).
Mack leases 13 vineyards in the
Willamette Valley
The Willamette Valley ( ) is a long valley in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Willamette River flows the entire length of the valley and is surrounded by mountains on three sides: the Cascade Range to the east, ...
in
Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
which produce wine under his
popular culture
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-inspired labels.
In 2019 Mack published ''99 Bottles: A Black Sheep's Guide to Life-Changing Wines.''
In 2020 Mack opened ''& Sons'' in
Brooklyn, New York
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, a wine and ham bar.
Mack's wine lists have been listed in ''
The Huffington Post
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'', ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'', and ''
Black Enterprise''.
Awards
In 2003, Mack won the
Chaîne des Rôtisseurs Chaîne may refer to:
*Marius Chaîne – French scholar.
*Chaîne (novel) – a 1974 novel by Saidou Bokoum about Africans living in France.
*Radio Algeria
The Entreprise nationale de radiodiffusion sonore (''ENRS'', the National Sound Broadcas ...
Young Sommeliers Competition.
In 2007, he received ''The Network Journals 40-Under-Forty Achievement Award.
See also
*
List of wine personalities
References
External links
Maison Noir Wines
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1972 births
Living people
Oregon wine
Sommeliers