How the Beltramo and Gemello family connected over wine and family

May 30, 2022 699

BY: Linda Hubbard

Longtime residents may remember the Gemello Winery on El Camino near Rengstorff in Mountain View. Kevin Ferguson’s grandfather, Mario Gemello, retired in 1982, but his cousins the Obesters maintained it for another 10 years. Mario passed away in 2005, but Grandma Kay celebrated her 100th birthday last June.

Kevin is taking that outline of his family’s history and writing a memoir about health, aging & winemaking in the San Francisco Bay Area called Rain on the Montebello Ridge. He’s been releasing chapters on Substack, and he alerted us about one chapter in particular that tells the tale of how great grandfather John Gemello accepted a loan from Giovanni Beltramo, which gave it a Menlo Park/Atherton link.

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SOURCE: https://inmenlo.com/

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