Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business

In 1965, in a family feud that became notorious in the wine world, Robert Mondavi -- then 52 years old -- was thrown out of his family's company. What has happened since then is not only one of the great success stories of American business but of world business as well. Twelve years after his first harvest, wines from the Napa Valley, with Mondavi's leading the way, outclassed the best French Bordeaux and Burgundies in a blind tasting in Paris. It was the most important moment in American wi…