Winemaker Robert Mondavi, 94
Posted: Saturday, May 17th, 2008 10:00 amRobert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who put California wine country on the global map, has died. He was 94.
Mondavi died peacefully at his home in Yountville, Calif., on Friday, said Mia Malm, spokeswoman for the Robert Mondavi Winery.
An enthusiastic ambassador for the health benefits of moderate consumption of wine, and of California wine in particular, Mondavi had travelled the world into his 90s, promoting the cultural and social benefits of wine.
Born in Virginia, Minn., Mondavi got an economics degree from Stanford University in California in the 1930s and went to work at the Charles Krug Winery, which his Italian-born parents had bought after moving to California from Minnesota. … Read full obituary
