BY: Mary Ross
Without the benefit of computer files or even quill and parchment diaries, the birth of the world's first vineyards is the stuff that wine lovers can only dream. Was France's great Hermitage planted by a reclusive knight, repenting his sins during the Crusades? Did the vines of Italy's Lacryma Christi spring from the tears of Christ? Like Santa Claus, if the legends aren't true, we wish they could be.
If current documentation withstands the millennia, what seems like an American legend will be proven a fact with one name: Mondavi. In 1906, Italians Cesare and Rosa Mondavi arrived stateside, traveling to California to grow grapes for the Prohibition-era home winemaking movement. After the Repeal of the 18th amendment, Cesare acquired Napa Valley's Charles Krug Winery. With sons Robert and Peter, he established CK Mondavi, to this day producers of straight forward, extra-value wines.
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