Rachel Ann Passalacqua met Eugene "Pete" Seghesio when purchased her father's Zinfandel grapes from the San Lorenzo vineyard in southernmost Alexander Valley.  In 1956 the couple was married.  Seghesio Farms now manages that same vineyard, purchased in 1896 by Rachel Ann's grandfather for the sum of ten gold coins.  At that time, the vineyard was already planted to and producing Zinfandel. Today, it represents our oldest plantings of Zinfandel.