In 1888 Angel Furlotti left his small village outside of Parma to put down roots both figurative and literal in Argentina. Working hard at established vineyards, and buying up cheap land, Angel was finally able to construct his own winery in 1914. By the 1950's the Furlotti family was one of the biggest vineyard owners in Argentina, with 10 separate vineyards totaling over 2,000 hectares. Ultimately, most of those vineyards were sold off, around the time Angel's great-granddaughter Gabriela was born in 1968. Though not compelled by the scale of wine production she witnessed as a child, Gabriela was still drawn to one of her family's remaining parcels of land, Finca Adalgisa, originally owned by her maternal grandmother.