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Mondavi Napa Valley Chardonnay 2005
Mondavi may refer to: * Robert Mondavi (1913–2008), vineyard operator in Napa Valley, California * Peter Mondavi (1914–2016), American winemaker * Margrit Mondavi (1925–2016), Swiss-born American businesswoman * Mondavi Center The Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts venue located on the UC Davis campus in unincorporated Yolo County, California. It is named for arts patron and vineyard operator Robert Mondavi, who donated US$10 ..., a performing arts venue on the UC Davis campus in Davis, California See also * Mondovi (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mondavi
Robert Gerald Mondavi (June 18, 1913 – May 16, 2008) was an American winemaker. His technical and marketing strategies brought worldwide recognition for the wines of the Napa Valley in California. From an early period, Mondavi promoted labeling wines varietally rather than generically, which became the standard for New World wines. The Robert Mondavi Institute (RMI) for Wine and Food Science at the University of California, Davis opened in October 2008 in his honor. Family history Robert Mondavi's parents, Cesare Mondavi and Rosa Grassi, emigrated from Sassoferrato in the Marche region of Italy and settled in Hibbing, Minnesota. Robert Gerald Mondavi was born in Virginia, Minnesota. From Minnesota the Mondavi family moved to Lodi, California, where he attended Lodi High School. In Lodi, his father, Cesare, established a fruit packing business under the name C. Mondavi and Sons, packing and shipping grapes to the east coast primarily for home winemaking. Mondavi graduated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mondavi
Peter Mondavi Sr. (November 8, 1914 – February 20, 2016) was an American winemaker. Born to Italian immigrants Cesare and Rosa Mondavi, as the youngest of four children, he moved from Minnesota to Lodi, California in 1922, when his father began a firm transporting grapes during the Prohibition. He graduated in Economics from Stanford University in 1937 and began further study in Enology at the University of California, Berkeley, disrupted by his service in the Second World War. His parents bought the Charles Krug winery in Napa Valley in 1943, and on his father's death sixteen years later, the business was split between Peter Mondavi and his brother Robert. The two fought, and the latter founded his own eponymous winery in 1966. They reconciled in 2005 and made a new wine together. Mondavi was recognised by ''Wine Spectator'' as one of the "Napa Mavericks" who pioneered the industry in the valley. Mondavi married Blanche Hurtzig after his military service, and they remained toge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margrit Mondavi
Margrit Biever Mondavi (''née'' Kellenberger; August 2, 1925 – September 2, 2016) was a Swiss-born American businesswoman. She was vice president of Cultural Affairs at Robert Mondavi Winery which she joined in 1967. Under her direction, Robert Mondavi Winery developed original cultural and culinary arts programs. She was the wife of Robert Mondavi and worked with him in many of his philanthropic activities including the founding of the museum Copia. She played a key role in securing the downtown Napa location for the center, which opened in November 2001. She died of stomach cancer on September 2, 2016. Personal life A native of Appenzell, Switzerland, Margrit Kellenberger was raised in her family home overlooking Lake Maggiore, in the canton of Ticino. By the end of World War II, Margrit met Capt. Philip Biever, a United States Army captain. Following a brief courtship, they were married in the Church of Madonna del Sasso on a wooded hillside above the city of Locarno. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondavi Center
The Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts venue located on the UC Davis campus in unincorporated Yolo County, California. It is named for arts patron and vineyard operator Robert Mondavi, who donated US$10 million to help with the building costs, and who also helped finance The Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science on the same campus. The current annual operating budget is approximately US$7.3 million, 58% of which comes from earned income. Mondavi Center opened on October 3, 2002, for thUC Davis Symphony Orchestraand today serves as a venue for musical concerts, theater, dance, lecturers and other entertainers. The façade is a large glass-panelled lobby that is surrounded by sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
