US: Making the Mondavi Legacy New Again
US: Making the Mondavi Legacy New Again
Mar 24, 2012 6
(WSJ) - Fitzgerald's remark about there being no second acts in American lives is so good, one almost hates to cite counter examples, but Robert Mondavi founded the winery that made him famous at the age of 53, after a successful career at Charles Krug. His son Tim, formerly the winemaker at Robert Mondavi Winery, had the curtain crash down on his own first act when the family lost control of the winery after it went public and was purchased by Constellation Brands, the creators of Wild Irish Rose, in 2004. For his second act, Tim founded Continuum (continuumestate.com), a high-end Napa label, in conjunction with his father and his sister, Marcia Mondavi Borger. The fact that Tim, now 60, was also 53 when he started over is only one of the many curious parallels that make the Mondavi story so emblematic of Napa's winemaking history.
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