The Robert Mondavi Winery is the best known winery in California and with good reason. The late Robert Mondavi who died in 2008 was Napa Valleys most passionate ambassador and the maker of some of the valleys very best wines. His Italian immigrant parents moved from Minnesota to Napa Valley to grow fruit and by the 1960s they owned and operated the Charles Krug Winery. But after a feud with his brother and mother in 1966 when Robert was already in his 50s Robert left the Krug winery and struck out on his own. He was determined to make fine wines _ not the jug wines California was mostly known for at the time _ and by the 1970s his Cabernet Sauvignons were impressing connoisseurs in the U.S. and Europe. Today the winery is no longer owned by the Mondavi family though its wines continue to win high praise. Robert Mondavi Winery owns 1540 acres in Napa Valley and its premiere wines are Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Napa Valley and Cabernet Sauvignon To Kalon Reserve.