ABOUT US
WELCOME, DEAR FRIEND.
I’m Tim Bacino, the sixth-generation winemaker behind GEN 7 Wines.
We built an incredible Napa Valley tasting room, launched a wine club, developed beautiful wines, and recreated beloved favorite wines my family first sold in the 1800s. At its heart, GEN 7 Wines is a family business - steeped in tradition, connection, and celebration. Our wines have been part of your weddings, holidays, and meals for generations, and we don’t take that for granted. Your support and commitment mean so much to us that we’ve even reformulated and relaunched wines that were retired - because you asked us to! Noir de Noir
Since our family has been making wine for almost 200 years, we know what we’re doing. Every year, I visit boutique California vineyards to taste and analyze their fruit, selecting only the best quality—with superb characteristics and perfect ripeness—to use for our wines. We age our wines in French oak barrels for 9 - 21 months. Then we custom-blend single varietals or unique blends to continue our tradition of high-quality, hand-crafted, and exceptional wines.
Current Vineyard AVA regions are Napa Valley, St. Helena, Los Carneros, Rutherford, Calistoga, Coombsville, Oak Knoll, Russian River, Knight’s Valley, Sonoma Coast, Sonoma Valley, Monterey, Lodi, Santa Maria, and Santa Barbara.
Have I piqued your interest? Wonderful.
1832
Theophile Vaché leaves France for California and establishes one of the first vineyards in the Vineyard District of San Benito. We still make some wine from the original vineyard.
1847
Theophile’s nephews, Aldolfe, Emile, and Theophile, join him and together they found a wine-importing business in downtown Los Angeles, California.
1892
The nephews moved to Redlands, bought land next to a picturesque stream, and Brookside Winery is born. That year, my great-grandfather, Marius Biane, arrived from France and was hired to work for the Vaché family.
1952
Brookside Winery purchases Segundo Gusti's 4,000 acres of vineyards in Rancho Cucamonga, California. At this time, Brookside Winery was the largest vineyard holding company in the world.
1968
Brookside opened 36 retail stores in California, Arizona and Illinois.
1972
Beatrice Foods buys Brookside Vineyard Company. They ran the winery until 1982 when Beatrice Foods sells Brookside and all its vineyards, production facilities, and retail stores to a land developer. The Ontario International Airport and the Inland Empire was born.
2008
Tim Bacino, the sixth generation of the Vaché and Biane families, has a spiritual calling at 3am to resurrect his family’s tradition and legacy of winemaking. GEN 7 Wines is named for his daughter, Gabriella, the 7th generation of the Vaché/Biane family.