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The Rise and Fall of the Mondavi Empire

A new book provides an in-depth look at how the first family of American wine lost control of their life's work

By James Laube

In November 2004, the house of Mondavi collapsed. The wine world learned that the Robert Mondavi family, the first family of American wine, would no longer own their namesake wine company. Robert Mondavi.....

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