Gracianna Winery

The Gracianna Winery story pays tribute to the Amador Family’s maternal grandmother, Gracianna Lasaga. It is the story of family and the origin of the gratitude that was passed down to us. Born on the French side of the Basque Pyrenees, Gracianna emigrated to the United States as a young woman. The hardworking and beautiful Gracianna and her beloved husband John raised thousands of sheep in Santa Barbara County then settling in Santa Maria, California. Money was tight especially the months before slaughter. As practiced for centuries by European sheepherders, John would offer “chits” in the form of coins good for a certain number of sheep as an IOU to pay for goods and mercantile—to hold them over until the herd was sold off.