Jonathan Kemp

Jonathan Kemp is a partner and wine director at Vanderbilt Ave Wine Merchants in Brooklyn. He was previously a buyer, manager, or both, at Chambers St Wines, Vine Wine, and Eastside Cellars. He caught the wine bug while taking a viticulture and oenology class while studying abroad in Luxembourg, and caught natural wine fever back in the aughts from growers like Olivier Cousin, Stefano Bellotti, and Marcel Lapierre.