Martini Winery began at he and his father’s home in the Bayview District neighborhood of San Francisco where they built a small winery behind their home (a part of the city then known as Butchertown) and sold wine by the gallon to some of the same clients who were purchasing their seafood. Eventually he moved back to California the roots of Louis M. Intrigued by the process, Louis returned to Italy at age 19 to further study wine. Louis and his father made home wine together in 1906. Apparently, the business was very successful, as at one point Agostino had 35 people working for him. He first came to the United States at the young age of 12 in 1899 he was sent over by his mother to be with his father Agostino, a shoemaker and shoe merchant who was making a living harvesting and then selling fresh fish, clams and mussels in San Francisco. Martini was born in 1887 in the Italian Riviera (Pietra Ligure) – not far from several other Napa Valley vintners whose roots reach back to this part of Italy. Martini Winery was established when Louis M.