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Robert Mondavi transformed the nation's wine industry by convincing Americans they deserved to drink better wine and inspiring a generation of winemakers to create it for them. At a time when California was producing little more than cheap jug wines, Mondavi championed the idea that Napa Valley had the potential to create wines every bit as good as the great estates of Europe. "He really wanted to show the industry that we could make wines with the best," said Jon Fredrikson of the consulting
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FlagRobert Gerald Mondavi, who dreamed of putting Napa Valley onto the map of world-class wines beside the best of Europe and succeeded beyond his wildest imagination, died of natural causes Friday morning at home in Yountville at age 94. Over his lifetime, the Mondavi legend spanned the creation of a signature Napa Valley winery, a famous feud with his brother, Peter, and a bold decision to take his company public, only to lose it to an international conglomerate.
Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home yesterday...Mondavi died peacefully in Yountville, said Mia Malm, a spokeswoman for Robert Mondavi Winery. He was 52 and a winemaking veteran in 1966, when he opened the winery that would help turn the Napa Valley into a world center of the industry.
Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home Friday...Mondavi died peacefully at his home in Yountville, Robert Mondavi Winery spokeswoman Mia Malm said. He was a winemaking veteran in 1966 when he opened the winery that would help turn the Napa Valley into a world center of the industry.
Robert Mondavi, the charismatic Napa Valley vintner whose work helped establish California wines as among the world's best, died Friday morning...A spokeswoman for the Robert Mondavi Winery confirmed that Mr. Mondavi "died peacefully" at his Wappo Hill home near Napa Valley's Silverado Trail.
Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who put California wine country on the map, is dead at 94. Mondavi died at his Napa Valley home Friday, said Mia Malm, spokeswoman for the Robert Mondavi Winery. Mondavi, who was 52 and a winemaking veteran in 1966 when he opened the winery that would help turn the Napa Valley into a world center of the industry, traveled the world into his 90s as an enthusiastic ambassador for wine. "He had an amazing life," said Robert C.
When Mr Mondavi opened his winery in the 1960s most Californian wine was considered to be of low or average quality. But his pioneering production techniques helped turn the Napa Valley region into one of the world's premium winemaking locations. The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has called Robert Mondavi a "legend" responsible for transforming the state's $20 billion a year wine industry.
uoyed by an energy built on rugby fields and tennis courts, Robert Mondavi started his career anew at age 53 by founding his mission-style winery along Highway 29 in the middle of Napa Valley. That was 1966, and Mondavi immediately began to proclaim California wines the equal of any in the world.
The Robert Mondavi Winery, which Mondavi founded in 1966, said in a statement that the famed wine connoisseur died peacefully on Friday at his Napa Valley home, north of San Francisco...The entrepreneur was acclaimed by industry journal Wine Spectator as "one of the most influential and admired winemakers in California history".
Post a Comment His death was announced by the Robert Mondavi Winery. The winery, hailed as an architectural masterpiece when it was built in 1966, set the style and tone for scores of wineries in later years and is still the valley’s most popular tourist attraction.
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