Another great one gone

Robert Mondavi, famed winemaker in California, is dead at 94. "Mondavi died peacefully on Friday at his Napa Valley home. He was "a tireless entrepreneur who transformed how the world felt about California wine, and an unforgettable personality to everyone who knew him," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement. The son of Italian immigrants had worked in the wine industry since graduating from Stanford University with a degree in economics in the 1930s. He started at the Charles Krug Winery, in which his parents had invested after leaving Minnesota for California. A tempestuous relationship with his brother, Peter, led to a split from the family business and he opened his eponymous Napa Valley winery in Northern California in 1966 at age 52."