“Both the Coppola and the Pennino families were acclaimed musicians, and as we grew up there was always this banter back-and-forth about which side was more talented. When I started the wine company, it began as ‘The Family Coppola’. Once my mother said, ‘Oh, Coppola this and Coppola that… Don’t forget you’re also a Pennino!'” “When I was a little kid, both my mother and father came from musical families. My father was a great flautist, composer, and conductor and my mother’s father was a wonderful Neapolitan songwriter. Her brother was a fine trumpet player in the same orchestra my father played in. He brought his friend home to dinner one occasion, and that’s how my father met my mother.” -Francis Ford Coppola