He was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Robert Mondavi was selected as the Decanter 'Man of the Year' in 1989. In 1985, Mondavi received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business. Robert Mondavi died at his Yountville home on May 16, 2008, at the age of 94.

Robert and Margrit were also founding supporters of the restoration of the 19th-century Napa Valley Opera House and the Oxbow School, a new art school in Napa that provides grants and instruction to art students in their junior year of high school. Following the sale of the company, Mondavi partnered with his younger son Tim Mondavi and daughter Marcia Mondavi to make a single wine from a single estate at the highest level.

On December 22, 2004, Constellation Brands acquired the Mondavi winery in a controversial takeover for nearly US$1.36 billion in cash and assumption of debt. In the 2004 documentary film Mondovino, the Mondavi family featured prominently, in close application to its theme of globalization. He said, 'We've got to get our image back, and that's going to take time.' In 2003, Mondavi expressed regret and criticized his sons for the business strategy that emphasized the inexpensive Mondavi lines, Coastal and Woodbridge, over the premium wines, allowing the company name to lose its association with fine wine it held in the past. In 2001, Robert Mondavi donated $10 million to help with the building cost of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts building at UC Davis. Using grapes from both family vineyards, they produced one barrel of cabernet blend, which was sold for $400,000 under the name 'Ancora Una Volta' ('Once Again') at the 2005 Napa Valley Auction. In 2005, Robert Mondavi and his younger brother Peter made wine together for the first time after their feud. In the Grand European Jury Wine Tasting of 1997, the Robert Mondavi Chardonnay Reserve was ranked number one. Mondavi entered into a joint venture with Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Château Mouton Rothschild to create Opus One Winery, and since the 1990s has set up joint ventures with local partners in Europe, South America and Australia. In 1968, Mondavi made a dry oak–aged Sauvignon blanc, an unpopular variety in California at the time, and labeled it ' Fumé Blanc'. Wine history A wine from the Robert Mondavi Winery, a Napa Valley Chardonnay. In 1980, at the age of 67, he married Margrit (Kellenberger) Biever Mondavi, a Swiss-born, and multilingual woman who worked at the Robert Mondavi winery. In the late 1970s, their marriage ended in a divorce. Together, the couple had three children: Michael, Marcia, and Tim. In 1937, Mondavi married his high school sweetheart, Marjorie Ellen (Declusin) Mondavi. Mondavi selected Cliff May to design the winery building, which opened in 1966 and is now considered an architectural icon in the Napa Valley, with an expansive entryway arch and bell tower. The winery produced wine in the California mission style. Part of Mondavi's original vineyard land included the To Kalon (a Greek term meaning 'the beautiful') vineyard originally established by Napa Valley pioneer H.W. Subsequently, Mondavi started his own winery in Oakville, California. In 1965, Robert Mondavi left the family winery after a feud with his younger brother Peter over the business direction of the Krug Winery.

In 1943, Mondavi joined his father and brother Peter after the family acquired the Charles Krug Winery located in St. Mondavi graduated from Stanford University in 1936 with a degree in economics and business administration. Mondavi and Sons, packing and shipping grapes to the east coast primarily for home winemaking. In Lodi, his father, Cesare, established a fruit packing business under the name C. From Minnesota the Mondavi family moved to Lodi, California, where he attended Lodi High School. Robert Gerald Mondavi was born in Virginia, Minnesota. Robert Mondavi's parents, Cesare Mondavi and Rosa Grassi, emigrated from Sassoferrato in the Marche region of Italy and settled in Hibbing, Minnesota. The Robert Mondavi Institute (RMI) for Wine and Food Science at the University of California, Davis opened in October 2008 in his honor. From an early period, Mondavi promoted labeling wines varietally rather than generically, which became the standard for New World wines. His technical and marketing strategies brought worldwide recognition for the wines of the Napa Valley in California. Robert Gerald Mondavi (J– May 16, 2008) was an American winemaker. Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2002),

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