Brookside revives shuttered Sbragia winery in Dry Creek Valley merger
What's the deal? Brookside Vineyard Company has acquired Sbragia Family VineyardsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, reviving a Sonoma County estate that closed its tasting room in August 2024. The merger became official on September 8, 2026, with terms undisclosed. A renovated tasting room is slated to reopen in spring 2027.
The targets: Sbragia, founded in the early 2000s by veteran winemaker Ed Sbragia and his son Adam, is known for mountain-grown Cabernet Sauvignon priced as high as $130 a bottle. The more than 50-acre Dry Creek Valley estate reflects a family history in Sonoma wine stretching back over 120 years.
The acquirer: Brookside traces its lineage to a winery founded by Theophile Vaché in 1832. Tim Bacino, the sixth-generation family member leading the company, founded Gen 7 Wines in 2008 and already runs a Napa tasting room.
Why now? Bacino reconnected with Ed Sbragia in 2025 and saw a chance to buy the dormant winery. Ed Sbragia has described the effort as a way to preserve the winery's future.
What could go wrong? California wine country is still contracting. The state had 4,727 wineries at the end of 2024, down from 4,949 at the start of the year, and lost 47,229 acres of wine grapes between August 2025 and August 2026. Reviving a long-dormant name in a shrinking region carries real risk.
The signal: Sbragia's closure came amid a broad slowdown — Sonoma tasting-room traffic fell 5.9% year over year in the first half of 2024. Yet not every move is a retreat: Auteur Wines opened a roughly $10 million estate near Healdsburg in April 2025. Brookside's return will test whether a storied name can find footing in a region still shedding wineries and vineyard acreage.
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