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Calif. wine patriarch Robert Mondavi dead at 94 (AP via Yahoo! News)

Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home Friday. He was 94.

Robert Mondavi, California Wine Pioneer, Dies at 94 (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Mondavi , namesake and founder of a northern California winery that helped establish the Napa Valley as a wine region ranking with France and Italy, has died. He was 94.

Wine and history in wunderbar Wurzburg (CNN.com)

Surrounded by vineyards and filled with atmospheric wine-gardens, this small, tourist-friendly town (just 90 minutes by train from Frankfurt) is easy to navigate by foot or streetcar. Today, 25,000 of its 130,000 residents are students -- making the town feel young and very alive.

Robert Mondavi, 94; vintner was a powerful ambassador for California wine (Los Angeles Times)

Mondavi had little formal training in making wine. His exile from the family business became the stuff of legend. Robert Mondavi, the pioneering Napa Valley vintner whose drive and salesmanship revolutionized the way the world thought about California wine, died Friday at his Yountville, Calif., home, a spokeswoman for the Robert Mondavi Winery said. He was 94.

Calif. wine patriarch Robert Mondavi dead at 94 (San Francisco Chronicle)

Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home Friday. He was 94. Mondavi died peacefully at his home in Yountville, Robert Mondavi Winery spokeswoman Mia Malm said. He was 52 and a...