The family’s wine-making traditions go way back to the pioneer Secondo Guasti, who emigrated to California in 1881. Within a decade, using cuttings of Barbera, he planted the world’s largest vineyard at that time. In 1946, Clemente Guasti founded the company in Italy, continuing his family wine-making traditions. After the death of Clemente Guasti in 1998, his sons, Andrea and Alessandro, who worked alongside, continued to manage the business never compromising on quality.