Calif. winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi dies

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,...

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Robert 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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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