Gallo, Julio Robert

Gallo, Julio Robert
▪ 1994

      U.S. winegrower (b. March 21, 1910, Oakland, Calif.—d. May 2, 1993, near Tracy, Calif.), together with his older brother, Ernest, founded (1933) E.&J. Gallo Winery in Modesto, Calif., and built an empire by shaping American drinking tastes with inexpensive nonvintage wines. The brothers claimed to have started their own business after the death of their father, Joseph Gallo, Sr., who had founded the Gallo Wine Co. in 1909. The brothers maintained that they learned wine making on their own after their father inexplicably killed their mother and then shot himself just after the end of Prohibition. With Julio serving as the wine maker and Ernest handling the marketing, the two introduced some 16 brands of wine and cornered more than 25% of the U.S. market. Some of their early offerings, including the widely popular Thunderbird, Ripple, and Boone's Farm wines, drew criticism; these inexpensive wines with a relatively high alcohol content were branded "street wines," the choice of winos and tramps. Later market entries that appealed to the suburban palate included Hearty Burgundy and Chablis Blanc. The brothers also began to aggressively market varietal and vintage wines. In 1981 the company began producing a premium-quality chardonnay, and in the 1980s it branched out into medium-priced Bartles and Jaymes wine coolers. Gallo, known as a technical innovator, pioneered the use of stainless steel wine-making vats and of computers for blending. The company, which owned nearly half of the vineyard acreage in California, reportedly had annual revenues of about $1 billion. In 1983 a third brother, Joseph, Jr., launched a cheese factory under the Gallo name, prompting the winery to sue him (1986) for trademark infringement. His countersuit charged that he had been cheated out of a one-third interest in the family business. However, the court ruled that Julio and Ernest had started their own concern when Joseph was 13 years old. The courtroom trial brought the family history under scrutiny, and their saga became the subject of the book Blood and Wine: The Unauthorized Story of the Gallo Wine Empire (1993). Gallo died after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash.

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