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A Very Civil War

California

January, 1989

After conquering Europe, the new nobility of Napa returned to a valley divided against itself. At stake: the future of the world's premier winegrowing region.

Paris, October 14, 1988. Black-tied Robert Mondavi, founder of Napa Valley’s Mondavi Winery, and his wife, Margrit, are greeted by photographers as they step from their limousine at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. The occasion is a gala seventieth-birthday concert for conductor Leonard Bernstein, a benefit for Paris’s American Center. It is a celebration for Mondavi,...