Robert Mondavi Quotes


"I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Food, Mother, Being, Wine)

"How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Heart, Giving, Goodness)

"Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything."
- Robert Mondavi
"Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Food, Life, Quality, Wine)

"Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Care, Children)

"As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: World)

"I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Food, Mother, Importance, Old, Water, Wine, Years)

"Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Wine)

"If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Art, Life, Food, Talk, Wine)

"My wife taught me the importance of living well."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Wife, Importance, Living)

"We definitely need to get the excitement back."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Excitement)

"My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Time, Mother, Old, Water, Wine, Years)

"My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Brother, Years)

"Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Business, Father, Thought, Future, University)

"There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Money, People, Pleasure)

"It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Giving, Satisfaction, World)

"This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Moderation)

"I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Idea, Living, Moderation, Wine)

"I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Food, Tongue, Want)

"I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink."
- Robert Mondavi
"We want to raise the art of living well."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Art, Living, Want)

"Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Football)

"Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning."
- Robert Mondavi
(Related: Beginning, Man, Wine)