Eleven Madison Park Wine Director John Ragan Shares the Path to His Dream Job

In 1997, while the ink dried on his bachelor’s degree in urban planning from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, John Ragan visited California before starting a job with the city’s Planning Department. “I don’t even think I’d been out of the Midwestern time zone before that trip,” says the wine director of Eleven Madison Park in New York City. “I was into wine, but it wasn...