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Couple months prior to my 2006 retirement from Robert Mondavi Winery, Mrs. Mondavi extended an invitation to me and seven additional guests of my choosing, to an elaborate dinner in my honor, hosted by she and Robert at their Wappo Hill home in the Napa Valley.

Thanking her profusely, I promised I’d get back with a guest list, and confirm the details at some point in the near future. What I’d not envisioned, was the throng of possible choices that would have given their right arm for the opportunity to dine with Margrit and Robert at Wappo Hill. I thought of the varied others throughout the years, which have paid tens of thousands of dollars to some charitable cause, just to exercise the very same privilege that I, in the company of a few friends, was about to gratuitously experience.
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