(PressDemocrat) - Back in the 1980s, I dined with Italian wine impresario Angelo Gaja, a great student of world wine history and as passionate a winemaker as I have ever known. Hours into dinner, Gaja said: “California has a great history of making fine wine, and Bob Mondavi has been the person who brought this message to the rest of the world. But Bob won't live forever. In decades to come, who will be the spokesman telling of California's great wines?”