Sangiacomo Family Wines

James MacPhail is the winemaker for Sangiacomo Family Wines, the label launched around 2016 by one of Sonoma's most respected multi-generational grape-growing families, who have farmed Carneros, the Sonoma Coast, and the Petaluma Gap for roughly a century. A Marin County native and acclaimed Pinot Noir specialist who founded MacPhail Family Wines in 2002, MacPhail had already worked with the Sangiacomos' prized vineyards for over a decade before being tapped to craft their wines. The partnership focuses on terroir-driven, vineyard-designate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the family's celebrated estate sites such as Roberts Road, built on shared values of farming, craft, and attention to detail.

The Sangiacomo family has farmed Sonoma since 1927, when Vittorio Sangiacomo, who had arrived from Genoa in 1913, bought a Carneros fruit ranch and began a legacy now carried by the third generation. For decades the family ranked among California’s most respected grape growers, supplying fruit to dozens of top wineries before launching their own Sangiacomo Family Wines label in 2016. Today roughly 1,600 certified sustainable acres across Carneros, the Sonoma Coast, and the Petaluma Gap remain family-farmed, with the Home Ranch, the original family property, still at the heart of the work. Their estate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir reflect nearly a century of devoted stewardship of the land.