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California wine pioneer Ernest Gallo dead at 97
0 Comments | AFP, March, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Ernest Gallo, a California viticulture pioneer who founded one of world's largest wine companies with his brother, has died at age 97, his firm said.
Gallo died Tuesday at his home in Modesto, Calif., about 130 kilometers (90 miles) east of San Francisco, EJ Gallo said without disclosing the cause of death.
The son of Italian immigrants, Gallo was born March 18, 1909, in Jackson, California, and later lived on a small farm his parents bought in the 1920s in Modesto.
Gallo and his brother Julio worked in the farm's fields after school. The family's grapes were harvested and sent by train to Chicago to be sold to home winemakers in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Ernest Gallo was already selling his family's grapes in Chicago at...
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