Grgich Hills Cellar
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Grgich Hills Cellar (California)
label: Collection Creator
content: Grgich, Mike (Miljenko)
label: Collection Creator
content: Chateau Montelena (California)
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content: Mike Grgich Papers
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content: 1976-2013
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content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.0923, Series 3
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content: Archival materials
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content: Series 3, Grgich Hills Cellars, 1976-2008, undated : This series consists of documents from the very earliest days of the collaboration between Mike Grgich and Austin Hills and a scattering of later publicity materials.  The folders of "Founding Documents, 1977" and "Negotiations, 1976-1977," include Grgich's hand-written notes and his drafts of legal agreements.  They also contain typed drafts and copies of documents of incorporation and employment agreements.  A November 18, 1976, memo to Austin Hills from attorney William D. Evers spells out initial discussions between the partners and alternative strategies for creating a corporation.  The 'Financial Records, 1977-1980," include balance sheets and annual financial statements of income and expenses.

Mike Grgich: 50 Napa Valley Years (2008) is a full color, twenty-eight page biography published by the winery.  Miljenko's 90th Birthday: Ninety Years of Accomplishments (2013) includes a timeline and greetings from many friends and family members.  Other publicity materials document the continuing high visibility achieved by Grgich and Grgich Cellars wines.  For example, in 1982 Ronald Reagan brought Grgich Hills Chardonnay to a banquet in France for President Mitterand, and in 1998 the Clintons served this wine at a White House dinner.