Family Winery Founded.

Industrious and determined to fulfill his American Dream, Samuele Sebastiani began carting cobblestones to the ferry and across the bay to San Francisco. After years of hard work as a mason quarry-mining the Sonoma hills, Samuele saved enough to purchase the wine making equipment which enabled him to make his first 5oo gallons of wine. He sold it locally to the local masons, farmers, and craftsmen of Sonoma, off of the same cart that had hauled stones, which helped pave the streets of San Francisco, CA. From these humble beginnings of his entrepreneurial endeavor, in a few short years Samuele was able to purchase land and facilities from the Franciscan Fathers who had worked the land for Centuries prior. Ever expanding his enterprise, he purchased land to benefit his winery business. Though hard times fell upon much of the United States due to the depression and prohibition Samuele worked hard to develop the town of Sonoma, employing the locals with such projects as constructing a theatre, the town’s skating rink, a hotel and apartments. He even created a cannery in order to keep locals employed at his winery.