Robert Mondavi
Robert Mondavi
Robert Gerald Mondaviwas a leading California vineyard operator whose technical improvements and marketing strategies brought worldwide recognition for the wines of the Napa Valley in California. From an early period, Mondavi aggressively promoted labeling wines varietally rather than generically. This is now the standard for New World wines. The Robert Mondavi Institutefor Wine and Food Science at the University of California, Davis opened October 2008 in his honor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth18 June 1913
CountryUnited States of America
It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
Wine to me is all about sharing.
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.
Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame
Wine always inspires sociability.
I know of no one who has been more helpful to the industry. His teachings and consultations internationally, without doubt, improved the quality of winemaking in our country. He was a friend to everyone interested in fine wine.
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.
I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.
My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.