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COPIA is a non-profit cultural institution, museum, and educational organization located in downtown Napa, California. COPIA (www.copia.org) is the world's leading cultural center dedicated to the discovery, understanding and celebration of wine, food and the arts. COPIA's mission is to explore the distinctively American contribution to the character of wine and food in close association with the arts and humanities, and to celebrate these as a unique expression of the vitality of American life, culture, and heritage. In 1988, vintner Robert Mondavi, his wife Margrit Biever Mondavi and other leaders in the wine community began to explore the ideas of establishing an institution such as COPIA. In 1996, Robert Mondavi acquired the land for COPIA and shortly thereafter gave a $20-million lead gift. Subsequently key supporters from the Napa Valley and the surrounding Bay Area—the "Founding Seventy"—made substantial donations. COPIA has since received national and international support.