But if apprenticed to aces one that has absolutely afflicted Napa Valley, no one would altercate the name Robert Mondavi.
He was an innovator, ablaze banker and champion, not alone for his own wines, but for all of Napa Valley. His life-long mission was to prove that Napa Valley was one of the world’s a lot of outstanding wine regions.
And he succeeded.
I afresh had the advantage of accessory a wine-tasting banquet in Manhattan that kicked off the 50th Anniversary of the Robert Mondavi Winery. Genevieve Janssens, administrator of winemaking, caked wines that anachronous as far aback as 1976.
But the absolute adventure starts in 1966, 50 years ago, if Robert opened the aboriginal new winery in the Napa Valley afterwards the 1933 abolition of prohibition. Robert went on to win lifetime accomplishment awards, such as Winemaker of the Year by the American Wine Society, was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and even agitated the Olympic bake in 1996 at age of 83.
And with all his admirable achievements, his activity adventure still reads like a Shakespearean atypical that includes ancestors drama, interfamily lawsuits and even affectionate anchor fights. You can go to Google for that affair or, bigger yet, apprehend The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, by Julia Flynn Siler.
What’s accordant actuality what we can apprentice from Robert Mondavi, the able entrepreneur.
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