Author: Robert Mondavi

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This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

- Robert Mondavi

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

- Robert Mondavi

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

- Robert Mondavi

We want to raise the art of living well.

We want to raise the art of living well.

- Robert Mondavi

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.

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.

- Robert Mondavi

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

- Robert Mondavi

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.

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.

- Robert Mondavi

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

- Robert Mondavi

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

- Robert Mondavi

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