Robert Mondavi: California Wine Visionary

San Francisco, May 16 (Reuters) - Winemaker Robert Mondavi, the man most credited for turning California into a world-class wine producer and millions of Americans for wine lovers, died Friday at his Napa Valley home at age 94 years.
Mondavi California winemakers measure resulted in a low-cost wines and fine wines, which ultimately compete with the quality of some of the best in Europe.
“The targeted before anything specific quality, and at any given time, merged quality and Napa in a unique concept,” said Dan Berger, an industry analyst and publisher of Vintage Wine newsletter experiences.
“In doing so, raised the wine and wine from Napa in California at a level that most people would never have imagined.”
Robert Mondavi Winery Mia Malm spokesman said the Mondavi family had told him, died on Friday morning.
Details were not immediately available, but Mondavi had been in ill health for some time and was confined to a wheelchair.
The son of Italian immigrants, Mondavi first learned about grape growing from his father. He then traveled the world to broaden their knowledge and the development of wines has been the creation of the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley, north of San Francisco in 1966.
The cave used as a platform to preach the development of innovation for other wine grape growers and created an industry of weight in a centralized manner.
But the Mondavi board of directors eventually lost faith in his family, management and sold the publicly traded company under the name Mondavi in 2004 by the giant drinks group Constellation Brands.
Initially, the sale disappointed Constellation California wine industry, but won over critics by retaining important initiatives Mondavi, “said Richard Cartiere, editor of the Report on the wine market newsletter.
“They have kept alive the head of programmes and many of its educational programs, more than one might have expected that a large company,” said Cartiere.
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Without his constant promotion of the state wine industry never have become the force is the industry say.
“He praised California wines world-class - as good as the best in Europe - and traveled the world tirelessly getting this message across, which makes believers of millions of wine lovers,” according to the industry bible, the magazine Wine Spectator.
Mondavi was a “person of substance in the industry - on many fronts,” said Don Sebastiani, a winemaker in neighboring Sonoma Valley and CEO Don Sebastiani & Sons.
Mondavi and his wife, Margrit, also shaped the image of Napa Valley “good life” reputation for launching the Great Chefs program in 1976 to Robert Mondavi Winery, which has helped to establish California as a culinary trend.
“It’s one of those who have done an incredible job of telling the story of wine and food and how wine can be a part of their daily lives,” said Robert Koch, president and CEO of San Francisco-based Wine Institute, an association California growers 1100.
In addition, the influence of Mondavi in California wine industry is evident across the vineyards, as many tracks of his best talents.
“It has an effect on what I would say is a conga line of winemakers who had worked for him. This came to a whole new plateau,” said Sebastiani.
Mondavi also influence extends beyond the U.S. to emerging countries with the wine industry.
“He made it possible for Chile and South Africa and Australia to explore the possibilities … he laid the groundwork for them,” said Cartiere.