Martorana Family Wine Works

The Martorana story began where all good wine stories do, in Italy, several generations ago.

On the steep hillsides of Santo Stefano, in the Piedmonte region of northwestern Italy, the Accornero family’s five children grew up tending the family’s grapes. In 1939, two of the sisters, Clara and Pierna, set sail for new land in America. Two brothers and a sister remained on the family estate, and to this day you can find their grandchildren tending the very same hillside vineyards.

Clara and Pierna arrived in San Francisco in 1939, where their uncle Guilio Accornero operated the Sonoma Hills Wine Company on the Embarcadero. And here begins a new chapter of the family’s wine making story.

In 1940 Clara met and married Anthony Martorana, a young man from Palermo, Sicily. Together, they bought land in the Dry Creek region of Sonoma County.