By that time, [Robert Gerald Mondavi] was attending Stanford University and planned to be a businessman or lawyer. When his father said, "Bobby, there's going to be a future in the wine business," he thought, "why not go into a young industry and grow with it?," Mondavi told Michael Chiarello, author of the 2001 book "Napa Stories.
I was sure we could make wines that belonged in that company," Mondavi told wine writer Cyril Ray, author of the 1984 biography "Robert Mondavi of the Napa Valley." "I felt that we had to get into the fine-wine business, or the bulk wineries in the San Joaquin Valley, making cheaper wine than we could out of their cheap grapes, would push us out of business."
Robert Mondavi traced their now-famous falling out to two events, the first of which was a 1962 vac...
... farm town of Sassoferrato in central Italy. In 1908, he returned to Italy to marry his childh...He had never seen the wine regions of Europe and, at the time, the "best" wine meant ...