Wine Icon Turns 100, Family Celebrates with Ice Cream
Wine Icon Turns 100, Family Celebrates with Ice Cream
May 18, 2013 6(TheDailyMeal) - Who doesn’t like wine — and ice cream — on their birthday? In honor of what would have been Robert Mondavi’s 100th birthday, make this lemon verbena ice cream, complete with a wine pairing, from the Robert Mondavi Winery.
June 18 marks what would have been Robert Mondavi’s 100th birthday, and what better way to celebrate a wine icon than with a wine-and-ice-cream recipe? Before you dig in, here’s a little background: Robert Mondavi was an icon in the American wine industry, opening his eponymous winery in Napa Valley in 1966 — the first after Prohibition — and is widely regarded today as the father of the California wine industry. Although he passed on in 2008 at age 94, Mondavi’s legacy continues in the wine world today.
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